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...time when museums are generally priced out of auctions for top works of art, that donation method, known as fractional giving, has been responsible for a substantial portion of the 80% of pieces that come through private donors. "It's a win-win situation," says Stephen Clark, deputy general counsel for the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, where roughly 650 works of art have been acquired via fractional giving, with about 650 more on the way--including Henri Matisse's Plum Blossoms. "It encourages art collectors to give because they get a tax benefit, but it also...
...Along with Rumsfeld, Gonzales and Tenet, the other defendants in the case are Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence Stephen Cambone; former assistant attorney general Jay Bybee; former deputy assisant attorney general John Yoo; General Counsel for the Department of Defense William James Haynes II; and David S. Addington, Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff. Senior military officers named in the filing are General Ricardo Sanchez, the former top Army official in Iraq; Gen. Geoffrey Miller, the former commander of Guantanamo; senior Iraq commander, Major General Walter Wojdakowski; and Col. Thomas Pappas, the one-time head of military intelligence...
...have to decide if the persecuting of bloggers reaches a point that it's unacceptable to do business there." FRED TIPSON, Microsoft senior legal counsel, on whether the software giant may suspend its activities in China, where Internet use is heavily censored...
...Being a Bitch) (Morgan Road), by marketing professionals Caitlin Friedman and Kimberly Yorio. As the title trumpets, the B-word is the dreaded description to have hurled at you in anger. In an amusing chick-lit, women's magazine patter (the boss is the "chick-in-charge"), the authors counsel being your authentic, feminine self. "Were our mothers and grandmothers fighting for us to go to college and get jobs we enjoy so we could be forced into sensible shoes and rayon business suits? We hope not." Says co-author Friedman: "We really think that if women are themselves...
WHITE HOUSE COUNSEL DOES NOT CHARGE BY THE HOUR Dick Cheney tells a conservative talk-show host that deciding to "dunk" detainees underwater to get information is a "no-brainer," which explains a lot about how the White House counsel came up with the rationale to defend such techniques to begin with...