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...There is no question [Citigroup] is violating the spirit of executive-compensation rules,' says Heather Slavkin, who studies executive-pay issues for the AFL-CIO. "Hopefully by the time Citi tries to pay these out we will have gotten over this idea about the sacredness of contracts, and these bonuses won't be allowed either...
...There's also the problem of what Brown calls "magical thinking" among men and women in their 20s. "Many of them have had some unprotected sex and haven't gotten pregnant," she explains. "The longer they go without a pregnancy, the more tempting it is to think that it can't happen to them." Women are also vulnerable to the misconception that a pregnancy - even unintended - can cement a relationship and bring a couple closer together. In fact, all of the statistics show that babies stress relationships; more couples end up splitting (see: Bristol Palin and Levi Johnston) than marrying...
...longer happen to work there. Slightly less so, in fact: the remaining AIG FP employees are being paid essentially to work themselves out of jobs by winding down all the unit's contracts. It's an awkward situation that means at least some of them probably would have gotten retention pay even in bankruptcy...
...first time in their lives. Dan will prepare for medical school, while Bill enters graduate school in oceanography. But the distance won’t diminish the twins’ appreciation for their fraternal bond.“There is no way either of us would have gotten this far, both getting into Harvard and doing as well as we have swimming, without each other,” Dan says.—Staff writer Max N. Brondfield can be reached at mbrondf@fas.harvard.edu...
...cutting back the public sector - even under pressure of the recession - he'd be admitting the left's policies were right all along, and surrendering his political raison d'être," says Dominique Reynié, director of Paris think tank Foundation for Political Development. "The anti-Sarkozy front has gotten so wide and even trendy that it's blinding people to hard realities. First, France's 74% debt to GNP level can't go higher without collapsing, so the margin for relief effort is tiny. Second, the recession is causing pain worldwide, yet the French are the only ones protesting...