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...Monday, New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo asked eight large banks to turn over data on their expected 2009 bonus payouts. President Barack Obama is considering leveling a fee on financial firms to help the government recoup the costs of last year's bank and auto bailouts. FDIC officials, too, are considering charging banks that pay a large portion of their executive compensation in bonuses a higher fee for its deposit insurance. The U.K. recently adopted a 50% tax on bank bonuses.(See the worst business deals...
Sophomore Brogan Berry led three Harvard players in double figures with 15 points along with a team-high eight assists. Junior Emma Markley and freshman Victoria Lippert each added 13 points...
...League in overall scoring, but it certainly had its best defensive effort of the season against the Highlanders. NJIT’s 53 points was the lowest total allowed all season, and Harvard held the Highlanders to 36% from the field overall and added nine blocked shots along with eight steals...
...Making of a (White) MegachurchWillow Creek Community Church's main complex, in South Barrington, does not tower so much as sprawl: eight low-slung buildings, landscaped on a swampy and thus underdeveloped grassland amid Chicago's bustling, affluent northwest suburbs. As the church has grown - especially with the 2004 completion of a new sanctuary building with an escalator and interior waterfall - it has become more self-consciously handsome. But like Hybels himself, it abandons pious overstatement for corporate efficiency: church as conceived by Jack Welch. (Read "Church Group Attacks Christmas Commercialism...
...meaning white woman kept using the phrase "you people." "Do you people want to be called blacks?" she asked. "Or African Americans? I never know what to call you people." Eventually it became too much, and Larry, along with Renetta and his brother Garnett, explained to the woman and eight other white congregants in the room that "every time you say 'you people,' you're holding us back - it's like we're not included," Renetta said. The woman burst into tears and asked, "Well, what do you like to be called?" Renetta quipped in response, "I personally like...