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...company clearly needs him or her. If, on the other hand, you find no discernable fall-off in business, you know what to do: Give him a raise - he's probably a member of the U.S. Senate or the head of a major financial institution. He might throw some fat contracts, or at least a great mortgage, up your...
...Instead, as skeptics had predicted, the process is getting bogged down by a host of partisan fears: fear that one candidate could be perceived as breaking the logjam and saving the country from financial ruin, fear that one party could be blamed for passing a costly government bailout of fat cats on Wall Street, and fear of who might be blamed if nothing is done. "I'm not clear that in a very difficult situation like this that doing things in the spotlight and injecting presidential politics is necessarily useful," Obama told reporters Thursday...
...Both the United States Secretary of State and Secretary of Defense have doctorates in Russian studies. A fat lot of good that's done us.' ROBERT M. GATES, Defense Secretary, on the U.S.'s strained ties with Russia...
...latest shot in the abortion wars is not a new law or a court case. It is a fat blue-covered tome entitled Abortion under State Consititutions: A State-by-State Analysis by Paul Benjamin Linton. Although intended - as indicated by its $75 price tag - for libraries, it could become one of the country's most thumbed-through tomes if the Republicans win in November and take steps to overturn the Supreme Court ruling that protects abortion rights, Roe v. Wade...
...sheer scale of the carnage cannot be denied. Sydney Schanberg, then the New York Times's South Asia correspondent, described the month-long Pakistani crackdown in March 1971 as "a pogrom on a vast scale" in a land where "vultures grow fat." (He would famously win a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting five years later on Cambodia's killing fields.) Passing through the charred husks of villages razed by West Pakistani troops, he heard whispered story after story of mass executions of Hindus, college students and anybody suspected of Bengali nationalism. Neighborhoods were gutted as Bangladesh's main cities fell...