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...might involve trying KSM and other 9/11 conspirators in a tribunal, or even a new civilian terrorism court with special rules, while permitting other alleged terrorists to be tried, as originally planned, in the existing federal system. Holder doesn't have a feel yet for where the President will come down on the talks. "I'm just not sure where the President is on this," Holder says. A senior aide involved in the discussions says, "If there's a Rahm-Graham deal...
...McDonald's cuisine with freshly prepared, price-competitive, high-end food. "It's convenient to eat horrible food, and it's so difficult to eat great food. It's O.K. to eat flaming-hot Cheetos and never read books or eat vegetables," he says. "This is where we've come as a country, and I'm not cool with...
...just fast turnover, small portions and cheaper cuts of meat that allow Choi to charge such low prices. "A Caesar salad at a lot of places is $12, but a Caesar salad costs $1.80 to make," he says, putting out a Marlboro. The insane markups come from a tired old formula, he continues: "Get a space in a high-rent district and hire [ultra-opulent interior architect] Adam Tihany to design it. It costs $1.5 [million] to $2 million for you to open a restaurant. So what's your attitude? 'We have to gouge those m____________.'"(Watch Roy Choi turn...
...thinks there's a chance it might all come together--maybe when he finally talks to Emeril, whose people just called him to set up a meeting. "I'll meet one of the big boys and see if he'll ride with me on this mission to broaden the food landscape," Choi says. "It's 2010. Let's start feeding people. Let's get out there...
Steve Eisman knew that calamity would eventually come. The hedge-fund manager bet big against the subprime-mortgage market and won. So did Mike Burry, a social recluse who began investing at night during his medical residency. Jamie Mai and Charlie Ledley, two 30-somethings who started trading in a Berkeley garage, "assumed that there was some grownup in charge of the financial system." There wasn't. In The Big Short, Michael Lewis, who chronicled an earlier era of Wall Street excess in 1989's Liar's Poker, tells the story of investors who asked questions that no one else...