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Just four days after calling Wall Street bonuses “shameful,” the president had an even stronger message for financial executives: Going forward, no senior executives of a corporation receiving federal bailout money will be permitted to earn more than $500,000 a year. While taking note of the move’s limited potential impact and the political motives that likely underlie it, we embrace the president’s decision and hope it will foster both discussion and behavioral changes...
...Privately, BSF officers admit that the ban makes little sense; dozens of Indian citizens are killed every year while trying to earn the fee of about $22 for getting a cow across. (The animals can eventually be sold for as much as $900 each.) Legalizing the trade would reduce the border violence and open a new stream of tax revenue. But few on the border expect that to happen in a majority-Hindu country. "Which government is going to allow the export of cows for slaughter?" Mitra asks. "That would just be political suicide...
Despite such heartwarming stories, fantasy fishing does have detractors: the dozens of pros who would like to earn more than the few thousand bucks they've been reeling in. "Guys are struggling," says Ken Wick, an FLW pro. "If anything, can't the [fantasy] prizes be maybe $50,000 for the tournaments, and $250,000 for the big one? That's still a good amount of money for playing around on your computer...
...takes a tenured professor to distort reality that badly. Kennedy is neither an historian nor an expert on the Middle East. What he is good at is thinking up radical ways to turn the academy upside down. He once suggested that the professors at Harvard Law School should earn the same salaries as the janitors. (After reading his opinions on Israel, you may be inclined to agree...
...offense. The puck passed around the circle from Vaughn to Vaillancourt and finally to Bassett, who wristed it home from the right circle.And to complete the scoring rampage, Vaillancourt took a pass from Ryabkina on the power play and broke towards the Terrier net. She went top-shelf to earn her second hat trick in four games.“It’s one of those games where you shoot at the net and it goes in,” Vaillancourt said. “The team has been playing really hard all season, and the luck hasn?...