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...there, it occurred to me that the insanity of the war was not being expressed in the popular media and that it could make a really eye-opening, gut-wrenching movie about the horrors of war to see the war through the eyes of these guys with this gutsy job on the front lines. (See pictures of the U.S. troops in Iraq...
...eight year period. He says he has two banks, Wells Fargo and Credit Suisse, on board to manage the assets and even lend money against the home in year eight if needed. On top of that, he says talks are underway to bring in a reinsurer. "The reinsurers' job is to step in at the end of the day and make up any shortfall should there be a shortfall," he says. "I don't want anyone to have any question about where I will be in year eight." (See the top 10 news stories...
...lead to a catastrophic burp that would release a massive amount of methane in a short time. That's a big if. The problem is that nobody has ever taken such careful measurements in this part of the world before, says Heimann. We have satellites that do a remarkable job of observing methane emissions from land, he says, but they're not very accurate over water. So while he considers Shakhova's data absolutely convincing, he's less convinced that these emissions are necessarily new. "In the context of the global methane cycle, has this been accelerating recently...
...Frumin, 63, is a graduate of Colgate University in upstate New York and Georgetown Law. He's worked for the parliamentarian's office since 1977, and starting four years after that, he and former parliamentarian Bob Dove have effectively rotated what must be one of the most thankless jobs on Capitol Hill. They kept switching off because various congressional leaders fired one or the other in frustration. Dove served under Republicans from 1981-87, when he was fired by Robert Byrd after Dems took control. Frumin ran things until 1995, when Dove was reinstated. He only lasted until 2001, when...
...When it comes down to it, though, it is not the parliamentarians that make the final decision. Frumin's $170,000-a-year job is strictly advisory: he recommends, based on his expertise and the research done by his office on precedents, a course of action to whomever is presiding over the Senate - in formal votes this is the Vice President. But if the leaders choose to ignore the parliamentarian's advice, they do so at their own peril: rulings that aren't backed up are subject to challenge. "Whoever's in the chair does make the ultimate decision...