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...course, cutting corners to get an extra day with a lady friend, as was the case in London, is one thing. But now Greenberg faces serious charges of cutting corners to make AIG's financial might appear greater than reality, and in so doing ripping off shareholders who have lost nearly $50 billion in the value of their stock since Spitzer served the first subpoena. In Spitzer's suit, he alleges that AIG, through bogus transactions, inflated the reserves it keeps to pay claims by hundreds of millions of dollars; that Greenberg repeatedly directed AIG traders late...
...time in the service reinforced his instinctive sense of discipline. But it also reinforced that those smart enough to work the system could get special rewards. As a new recruit in London during World War II, he frequently took advantage of a policy that gave soldiers an extra day off if, instead of boozing it up at the pubs, they enjoyed a night of culture at the theater. Greenberg's tactic: buy a ticket, grab a playbill, walk in the front door--and right out the side door...
When your video is done, you can burn it to a DVD or share it online. At streamload.com you can also store videos--no need to buy an extra hard drive for your video library--and easily e-mail them to family members and friends. The basic service is free, or $100 annually for heavy users...
...things appear to move slowly after that. It is not clear from the log's terse entries that increased pressure is leading to new disclosures. The interrogators keep juggling techniques--giving extra sleep some days, offering a home-cooked Arab meal on another (al-Qahtani refuses it). Later that day, when a video of the destruction of the Twin Towers is played, al-Qahtani becomes so violent, he has to be restrained. "We can't say, Because we did this, we got that," a senior Pentagon official says. "If we did know what worked, we'd know exactly which pressure...
...bigotry. The temptation is sex and the way the culture outside the box is saturated with it. "That's why Islam has repentance," he says with a laugh. The bigotry is from fellow American citizens who the students believe are watching them with suspicion. Since 9/11, "there's been extra pressure on them," says Hanan Abdallah, their assistant principal. "Anytime they're out, whatever they say counts 110%. They are young adults at an earlier...