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...dismissed by task-force co-chairman Steve Rattner in late March - "is a day we will look back on with great regret," predicts Corker, a reluctant and critical supporter of the bailout. "The government has no business making those kinds of decisions." Critics of the government's involvement maintain that bondholders have been punished, union workers coddled and laws flouted in the process. And they worry that should GM emerge from Chapter 11 with the U.S. Treasury as majority shareholder - Government Motors - we will have crossed a frontier separating capitalism from socialism, even though the company will...
...from painful to disastrous in September 2008, yoga studios throughout the country have reported increased traffic. Irene Narissi, a New York City yoga instructor, says her business has jumped 10% to 15% over the past seven months. The feedback from new clients: they are either unemployed and want to maintain their mental health or insecure about their current job status and want to maintain their mental health. "The meditative aspects of yoga," Narissi says, "satisfy the need to chill...
Among the issues the new study does not further explore, however, is whether players are able to maintain their health after retirement. In addition to the 15-year-old NIOSH study, a 2008 report by the American Heart Association (AHA) concluded that compared with other men, retired players were more likely to have high cholesterol and impaired fasting glucose despite significantly lower rates of diabetes and hypertension. Although "remaining physically active may help protect against many of the health risks of large body size in former competitive football players," said Dr. Alice Chang, lead author of the AHA study...
...Harry Lewis pointed out in an interview last week, there is one area where Harvard might be able to trim the fat: paying for trademarks. Take a look at the bottom of Harvard's homepage, www.harvard.edu, under "Trademark notice." Apparently the Provost's Office is paying good money to maintain or apply for the following trademarks...
...lower castes among both the Sikhs and non-Sikhs. By Monday afternoon, large-scale rioting spread to six districts, leading Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, himself a Sikh, to issue a televised appeal. "Invoking the teachings of the Gurus, I appeal to all sections of people in Punjab to maintain peace," he said. The situation has spun out of control before. In May 2007, a prominent sect leader with significant political links, Gurmeet Ram Raheem Singh of Dera Sacha Sauda, had invited the ire of the Sikh masses when he addressed a congregation dressed as the tenth Sikh Guru, Gobind Singh...