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...Bush Administration, having run up against its first honor-and-dignity issue in the person of Enron's former chief, longtime (and politically generous) Bush buddy Kenneth Lay, is fervently washing its hands of the whole mess. George W. Bush on Thursday announced that he would have the Treasury Department look into the whole corporate pension issue "to make sure we learn from the past." Oh, and that he hadn't talked to Lay in who knows how long...
...very involved in the gathering of knowledge and very warm and generous to his students,” said his stepdaughter Sanghi Choi Wagner...
...extraordinarily engaging and generous teacher and colleague, whose office door was always open,” said Carter Eckert, professor of Korean history and director of the Korean Institute, in the Harvard Gazette...
...garden from which Americans were expelled, years ago, by their success and power and diversity--and by their bitter internal wars over, among others, Joe McCarthy, Martin Luther King Jr. and Ho Chi Minh. The films archive the country's grainy common-man myth of itself, more generous and neighborly and decent, and a lot whiter (in a Norman Rockwell way) than America has proved to be, decades later, having made all that money and opened its doors to the world...
...Here's where the payment plan stands now: Each family gets $250,000 for a lost loved one, and $50,000 extra for every dependent left behind. Then, thanks to taxpayer contributions and some astoundingly generous charitable donations, families of the attack victims will get an average of $1.65 million in additional awards. That's where the disparities creep...