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...bosses at RBS, the bailout will be particularly humiliating. Only last April, the Edinburgh-based bank called on investors for some $20 billion in much-needed capital, after subprime-related losses - and an ill-timed takeover last year of Dutch bank ABN Amro - blew a big hole in its balance sheet. "It's immensely regretful we're coming to shareholders to raise funds again," said RBS chairman Tom McKillop. "It's something we feel bad about." So bad, in fact, that McKillop now plans to quit next year; RBS CEO Fred Goodwin resigned Monday, as did his counterpart at HBOS...
...Tristan and Isolde were really the lackluster lovers that the Sunday performance by the Boston Conservatory Orchestra (BCO) suggested, their ill-fated end may not have been so tragic after all. However, though passions were chilled when the BCO opened the afternoon performance in Sanders Theatre, they soon thawed as conductor Bruce Hangen coaxed the orchestra into a heart-warming rendition of Edward Elgar’s “Enigma” Variations.Almost immediately after the lights dimmed and 24-year-old guest conductor Michael Sakir planted his feet on the podium, the orchestra jumped into a frenzied arpeggio...
...quasi-suspect class" entitled to heightened protection under the state constitution. And so there is page after page on how powerless gays and lesbians are. "For centuries," the justices wrote, people have disliked gays. "Until not long ago, gay persons were widely regarded as deviants ... [who were] mentally ill ... [G]ay persons also face virulent homophobia that rests on nothing more than feelings of revulsion ... Insofar as gay persons play a role in the political process, it is apparent that their numbers reflect their status as a small and insular minority." This recitation of gays' weakness goes on for some...
Even in America in 2008, there are more people who are housed in jails that have a mental illness than there are facilities with trained help that were built to take care of them. By virtue of the fact that nobody else is going to do it, most police departments know that they're going to have them in their custody so they now train police in how to deal with the mentally ill. But it's all makeshift compared with what was intended when the Kennedy commitment was made way back yonder when he said let's open...
...shape in a number of ways, and it may be that we're going to have trouble finding out how to solve it, but at the same time life goes on, you know. Businesses are beginning to know that they have in their employment people who are mentally ill, people who have manic-depression, who have depression, who have schizophrenia, who suffer from alcoholism. And businesses are finding out that they are better off giving them treatment and buying insurance that covers their treatment because if you can keep them well and get them their medicine, you add to their...