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What do they want? Compensation and punitive damages. Plame also wants Administration officials to be held responsible for "shameful conduct." Cynical observers note Plame has a book deal to promote. "This is a ploy," says a Republican lawyer familiar with the defense, "to have their names front and center."
Excess is always wretched, whether we're talking executive-compensation packages or some guy trying to squeeze his Hummer into a parking space clearly labeled COMPACT. When we succumb to the Big Gulp ethos, as inevitably we do, it leaves us feeling shamefaced and guilty. It never leaves us laughing...
The fledgling drug-testing industry advanced government policy - and its own business plan - with assertions that tests would make workplaces safer and more productive. Industry executives often cited research showing that drug users were three times more likely than co-workers to consume health benefits, 3.6 times more likely to...
As impressive as his influence is his compensation. Moulitsas started the site in May 2002 after becoming a prolific commentator on another lefty blog, Armstrong's MyDD.com. It was clunky and amateurish; today, back-of-the-envelope calculations about how much money Moulitsas makes off of Daily Kos based on...
In the ensuing weeks, McGirk and TIME's Baghdad staff members interviewed more than a dozen Haditha locals by e-mail (travel between Baghdad and Haditha is exceedingly dangerous for Iraqis, let alone foreign journalists), including the mayor, the morgue doctor and a local lawyer who negotiated a settlement between...