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...officially in a recession now, but we may still think back upon a happier economic time for instruction: prosperous, distant 2005. In that year, two executives of the multi-national manufacturing firm Tyco received prison sentences for stealing hundreds of millions of dollars from the company for various personal purposes—most infamously, former chief executive officer L. Dennis Kozlowski’s $6,000 shower curtain. These sentences—ranging from 8 1/3 to 25 years of incarceration—were considered forceful messages to other executives tempted to skim off their company’s bottom...
...next seven years his fame increased exponentially, but he was unable to completely enjoy it and ended up engaging over 20 different Buddhist teachers. "The main idea taught by the different kinds of Buddhism," he says, "is that the lower you put yourself on the priority level, the happier you become." Surveying the wrecked lobby of his Maldives hotel, Li recalled this lesson, and decided that philanthropy - a thing he had vaguely imagined doing in retirement - was not something that could be indefinitely deferred. Three years later, he had cleared his film commitments and established the One Foundation...
...meeting the post-election smear campaign head-on, she may have silenced it. On Nov. 11, McCain appeared on the Tonight Show to announce he "couldn't be happier" with his former running mate, despite polls showing she may have cost their ticket more votes than she earned...
...were at a tipping point." He's right about that. We'll never know just what horrors we might have tipped into (Paulson's less-than-evocative phrase for what could have been was "broad systemic event"). But it's clear that financial markets are much calmer - if not happier - than they were in early October...
...Sarah Palin has disappeared from national politics and returned to her governorship in Alaska—at least until the 2012 campaigns get going—and I couldn’t be happier. But while she eases back into the habit of elk hunting and oil drilling, I worry that that the impact of her candidacy on Washington will be a deeply negative...