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...disagreement. Back in 2005, Greenberg was the head of both AIG and Starr International, a private insurance company whose main asset was nearly 300 million shares of AIG. For years, Starr had used that stock to dole out retention bonuses to AIG executives. When AIG booted Greenberg, he seized control of Starr and its AIG shares. Greenberg says Starr is a separate company that was set up to use its shares to benefit a charitable trust, and insists it can do what it wants with the shares. AIG says Starr was given those shares with the understanding that they would...
...Last spring, its militia defeated forces loyal to the U.S.-backed government in a street battle that lasted mere hours. Now a Hizballah-led political coalition is poised to do well in parliamentary elections on June 7. And even if Hizballah doesn't triumph, it is in de facto control of the Lebanese state, able to arm and train its military wing with impunity, and to project the power of its sponsors - Syria and Iran - into Israel...
These little suggestions worked. By the end of the 16-week study, which was conducted by Kaiser Permanente and NutritionQuest and funded in part by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, participants who received the physical-activity e-mails increased their exercise regimen by an hour a week more than the control group had. And participants who focused on a healthy diet reduced the saturated and trans fats they consumed by more than 1 g a day. Turns out the people who wanted to increase their fruit-and-vegetable intake were among the healthiest to start with, but even...
...could claim to speak for a god with a large following thus had influence. If that god was Yahweh, these prophets would be concentrated in the King's court, since Yahweh was Israel's national God. But prophets of other gods were less amenable to the King's control and so a threat to his power...
...Space Oddity, from 1969, takes its punning title from the Kubrick movie the year before. Released nine days before the Apollo 11 moon landing, and played by the BBC in its coverage of the event, it describes the communication of a lonely astronaut: "This is Major Tom to Ground Control... / Here am I sitting in a tin can / Far above the world./ Planet Earth is blue,/ And there's nothing I can do. / Though I'm past one hundred thousand miles, / I'm feeling very still... / Tell my wife I love her very much. / She knows." Maybe Bowie ought...