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...abuse. And the most prominent town-hall angle of attack against Obamacare has been its alleged scheme to let government bureaucrats pull the plug on Grandma, refuse to treat handicapped children and otherwise ration care, so again, it's easy to see why the Administration has soft-pedaled its earlier pleas for fiscal sanity. Instead, Obama is bashing the insurance industry for its own overzealous efforts to cut costs. (See who's who in Barack Obama's White House...
...play (as Tiger's late father Earl did), actively discouraged him. Han-joon said that "golf was a rich man's game played for fun, and that he had no business playing it because it couldn't help him earn a living", Yang recalled in an interview earlier this year. (See pictures of the worst fashions in golf...
...European banks too. Promising unwavering 10%-to-12% returns whatever the market, Madoff became known as "the Jewish T-bill," as in risk-free. Of course, there was no investing. For more than two decades, he used an ever larger stream of money from new investors to pay off earlier ones. His résumé supplied a perfect cover: former head of Nasdaq, a tech wizard who brought computerization to Wall Street...
...books trace the evolution of his sociopathy: friends remembering shady incidents from earlier in life--and that his parents were also crooked traders. But nothing about his IQ, or any evident evil, portended the breadth of his later crime. On the surface, Madoff's legitimate trading business gleamed. But in the off-limits-to-his-staff, low-tech office on the secluded 17th floor of Manhattan's Lipstick Building, Madoff worked darker magic...
...last year of the civil war was particularly perilous for the shrine. The military had begun a multipronged advance into the Tiger-controlled area in late 2007, and Madhu was about six miles (10 km) north of the line. Earlier that year, 10,000 people were still taking refuge in the church compound, believing the Virgin would protect them. But by February 2008, recalls the Rev. S. Emilianuspillai, then caretaker of the shrine, it was clear that the shrine itself was in danger - and part of the war. On April 3, 2008, fighting had isolated 17 people at the shrine...