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...bitterly partisan Washington, Senate Republicans can make a name by morphing into one-man roadblocks. Alabama's Richard Shelby clocked 15 minutes of fame by stopping CIA nominee Anthony Lake, who eventually withdrew. Orrin Hatch, head of the judiciary committee, last week abruptly postponed hearings for Eric Holder to be Deputy Attorney General because Holder's office once asked the IRS to delay a probe of D.C. police officers. Fifty-seven other presidential nominations are awaiting congressional approval...
...shareholders so sore? Because, as usual, corporate America has a taste for excess, particularly in the sheer number of stock options being granted. With nearly half the Fortune 500 companies reporting, about 6% granted their CEO at least 1 million stock options last year. (An option gives the holder the right to buy stock at a preset price within a specific period of time, regardless of what happens in the market.) You don't need to take off your socks to figure that a stock gain of merely $1--a slam dunk for any company that is not soundly asleep...
Dartmouth's Jen Greene racked up three assists on the day, the first of which put her in first place on the Big Green's all-time career assist chart with 51. Prior record-holder Lauren Holleran had to watch from the Harvard bench, where she is now an assistant coach...
...Henry was a diligent season-ticket holder who used whatever means necessary to get to the games," said head men's basketball coach Frank J. Sullivan. "He held viewing athletic competitions close to his heart...
...first slave holder in America was a free African-American who owned other African-Americans. His name was Anthony Johnson, and the first court case in North America establishing the right to own slaves was brought by him in Northampton County, Virginia, in 1653 with respect to a runaway slave named John Casor. The court's decision established the right to enforce lifetime servitude for the first time in the English American colonies over a person who had committed no crime...