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...flirtatiously francophonic "C'est si bon," and capped that with the Top 10 "Santa Baby, in which a gold-digger lays down the law to her sugar daddy. Through these songs, Kitt constructed her persona of the irresistible siren - both young and ageless - who is so sure of her control over men that it's often a chore just to rouse herself for another conquest. As she fairly said, "I am the original Material Girl." That this smooth dominatrix was an African-American, at a time when U.S. blacks were still denied basic civil rights, made her woman...
Today, Cerberus is backing out of those arrangements, ceding some control of its Detroit institutions in return for rich infusions of government aid. The first infusion came on December 19th when President Bush announced that Chrysler, along with GM, would receive $13.4 billion of emergency loans from the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) after Congress had refused to pass a separate bailout bill. On Christmas Eve Cerberus got another last-minute gift when the Federal Reserve Board voted to permit GMAC to change its status to a bank holding company. (GM still owns 49% of GMAC). (See pictures...
Still, most of us will feel less happy in the next few months than we did, say, a year or two ago. That, though, has more to do with control and less to do with actual wealth. "The loss of wealth is upsetting, but it's not just the losing money that gets you down," says Dan Ariely, a professor at the Sloan School of Management at MIT and the author of Predictably Irrational. "Not being able to understand what is going on is a main driver of unhappiness as well...
Vilsack spent the fall serving as a fellow at the IOP, where he organized a study group entitled “Do the Gods or Odds Control Us?: A Study of Risk and Responsibility in the Big Issues Facing America Today...
...Obama campaign was noted for its discipline, its rigor and its self control: three things most young boys are not noted for. Of course, Obama didn't take Malia, 10, and Sasha, 7, everywhere he campaigned. But long fatherly absences may make the boys even more likely to be unhelpful. "If dad's away on the campaign trail a lot, [boys'] tendencies towards defiance and impulsivity are exacerbated," says Meeks...