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...relieved at all. Taxpayers have put $180 billion toward keeping AIG in business and have an 80% equity stake in return. AIG says it will not need more government money, but it lost $4.35 billion in the first quarter of this year and a breathtaking $61.7 billion in the final quarter of 2008. It is probable that the taxpayers will never get all of their money back, but AIG does have divisions that are worth several billion dollars. If there is a timetable for selling those, the public has not been informed. AIG may say it cannot predict the future...
...contrast, has pretty much every bone, from the skull to the tip of the tail, and they're all in place. Not only that: you can see impressions of its fur in the surrounding material, and there are even the remains of what was presumably Ida's final meal (leaves and fruit) still visible where the digestive tract used...
...final meaning of the Latin valere: valeo iubere, I bid you farewell...
Collateral Damage Is Acceptable In the final months of fighting, the Sri Lankan military offensive hardly differentiated between civilian and Tiger targets. Refugees fleeing the fighting said thousands of innocents were being killed in the army's bombardments. Modern militaries typically halt hostilities when large numbers of civilians are killed. The Sri Lankan army barely paused. Reva Bhalla, director of analysis at Stratfor, a global intelligence firm, says Rajapaksa's "disregard for civilian casualties" was a key to the success of the military operation...