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...We’ve spent considerable effort focused on AIG’s board of directors,” AIG trustee Douglas L. Foshee said during a May 13 hearing before the U.S. House of Representatives' Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. “We’ve come to the conclusion that if AIG is to succeed, it needs a fresh start...
...each group suddenly said they thought their relations were good. "From a Hispanic perspective, Obama's election didn't just mean that a black man could be President, but that any minority person could," says Freddy Balsera, a Miami-based consultant who headed the Obama campaign's Hispanic- communications effort and is now a chair of the Democratic Party's National Hispanic Leadership Council. "As a result, on Election Day you could feel a new appreciation on both sides for each community's struggles...
...part, Washington has pledged $110 million - the vast bulk of it going directly to the U.N. and a slew of international aid agencies operating in the area. Still, Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani has asked for more support. The need for the international community to step up its aid effort was underscored a fortnight ago by the re-emergence of Jamaat-ud-Dawa, a banned charity linked to last November's Mumbai massacre, at the center of relief efforts in Mardan. (See pictures of Mumbaikars picking up the pieces...
...Apple App store gives the company two significant advantages over its competition. The first is that outside developers make the software apps saving Apple engineers huge amounts of time and effort by building a worldwide network of people all working on products for the relatively new iPhone. Second, the apps are useful tools for entertainment, business management, and daily tasks. People with a handset that gives them so many features are unlikely to switch to competing products. (See pictures of iPhone applications...
...Vladimir Osakovskiy, strategy and research head at Unicredit Bank, "The major message was that in the future the government will develop the budget using conservative oil price estimates. What we're seeing right now is an effort to clean up the mess." And what analysts will be eyeing with increased interest in coming months is whether the differences over the budget mark a new stage in Russia's most important political relationship: the one between Medvedev and Putin...