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...wake of the financial crisis as Goldman Sachs. Once seen as one of the best-run companies in America, in the past year more and more people have come to view Goldman's outsized profits as a product of backdoor dealings and market manipulation. AIG's former CEO Hank Greenberg recently blamed Goldman for bankrupting the insurance company. (Goldman, not surprisingly, does not concur with Greenberg's version of events.) Goldman received $12.9 billion when the government bailed out the insurer. Goldman has also been accused by critics of making large profits by betting against mortgage bonds the investment bank...
...from where al-Qaeda and the Taliban routinely launch attacks on U.S. and NATO positions in Afghanistan. The Taliban has already claimed responsibility for Wednesday's attack, but U.S. authorities have released few details. "We mourn the loss of life in this attack," State Department spokesman Ian Kelly said. Hank Crumpton, who headed the CIA's counterterror ops in Afghanistan after 9/11: "This horrible attack underscores the risk that CIA officers, men and women, undertake every day in Afghanistan and around the world. They are America's most important resource in this war, and this is a tragic blow...
...feckless boyfriend named Buckley, until he died in the propane blast. She later dated a series of jerks (voiced by Matthew McConaughey, Owen Wilson, Michael Keaton) and finally married one of them (Tom Waits). But her main function was to vex her uncle, the very conservative Hank Hill (voiced by the show's co-creator, Mike Judge) - once by joining the Communist party, and mostly by having taken Hank's den as her bedroom when she moved in. (See 25 people who mattered...
...initial premise of TARP, which was sold to Congress as a loan program that would be mostly paid back to the Treasury, where its proceeds would be used to pay down the deficit. "The $700 billion program we have proposed is not a spending program," former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson explained before Congress in September 2008. It didn't take long for Republicans to take that position. "The stimulus money clearly was a spending bill. TARP was a loan - a loan to be paid back. And we know that a number of the banks are, in fact, paying it back...
...trial were cured, but the setback reverberated through the field, dissuading researchers and funding. "A lot of financial interest has disappeared since it became clear that it's going to take a long time and it's not going to be easy [to develop gene-therapy drugs]," says Hank Greely of Stanford University's Center for Biomedical Ethics...