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...woodshed. Ever since Bank of America completed its deal to buy Merrill Lynch, questions have lingered about whether the chief executive was completely honest with shareholders about the state of Merrill - specifically about the year-end bonuses paid out to Merrill employees despite the investment bank's huge 2008 losses. Bank of America shareholders have already voted to remove Lewis from the post of chairman in part because losses at Merrill turned out to be worse than Lewis let on. But that has failed to put the issue to rest. (See 25 people to blame for the financial crisis...
...Junior Ben Graeff has earned the other starting end position, and will also see a huge jump in his playing time after recording six tackles a year...
...happy ending and a few laughs along the way, the main character’s struggle to overcome his own grief emerges as the central, and most compelling, narrative. The film opens as Burke arrives in Seattle to lead a grief seminar. He is on the brink of a huge multimedia deal with Unicom, an entertainment conglomerate that wants to promote him as the next Dr. Phil. But his penchant for solitary shots of Grey Goose quickly reveals that he has yet to confront the issues through which he guides his audiences. His wife’s death...
...said money had been set aside for the project before the financial crisis hit. Despite the financial constraints of recent months, the committee did not want to delay the project—even if it meant keeping embellishments less than lavish, Bhatt said.“There was a huge amount of pressure to keep expenses extremely low, so...it’s not as comfy-loungey as some may expect it to be,” said Bhatt, who added that the designers had originally intended to install hardwood floors but ultimately opted for linoleum. “That...
...national-security force that is just as strong, just as powerful as the military." While scourging Obama and the Democratic Congress, Beck takes pains to say that the ranks of the nation's would-be oppressors know no party. In his recent instabook - Glenn Beck's Common Sense, a huge best seller, with more than 1 million copies moved in less than four months - he wrote, "Most Americans remain convinced that the country is on the wrong track. They know that SOMETHING JUST DOESN'T FEEL RIGHT but they don't know how to describe it or, more importantly...