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...recalls that Sanford more or less decided to run for office before she even knew which party he belonged to. But she knew his core belief: the government should be parsimonious with voters' money. His abhorrence of spending led to him sleeping in his Washington office on a futon, buying her a used bike as a combined birthday and Christmas present and returning a diamond necklace he'd purchased sight unseen - through a friend - because he ultimately decided it wasn't worth what he'd paid. Of course, none of this quite explains why he rarely remembered her birthday (Sept...
Whatever the reason that prompted Jenny Sanford to write Staying True - and it remains a mystery, since she needs neither the money nor the publicity and she has said she would never run for office - the writing was not done in the heat of anger. She comes off as tough, reasonable and shrewd. Mark comes off as lost rather than evil or profligate. Perhaps her levelheadedness, so vital to him when he was campaigning, became less enticing to him when he was the incumbent. He may find himself needing a campaign manager again. It's hard to imagine many South...
...That said, the higher e-book price could actually benefit Amazon's bottom line. "At $9.99, Amazon wasn't making any money," says Hamed Khorsand, an analyst at BWS Financial. "So for Amazon to be forced to sell a product at $12.99, they're basically being allowed to make a profit." If prices continue to escalate higher though, it could be a problem, analysts...
...doing during the winter break at the now bankrupt investment bank. The intern, who was a junior in college, said he was trading derivatives for the firm. Surprised, McDonald asked the intern the size of his pad - Wall Street-speak for how much of the firm's money he was able to trade - figuring it couldn't be much. The intern's response: $150 million...
...Siberia, then nobody would have watched," says Masoud, a 28-year-old engineer from Tehran. The point is for the viewer to be able to escape, even if the characters cannot. "Today an Iranian says to himself, I've got Internet, I've got satellite, I've got money, but I don't have freedom," says Masoud. "So at least I'll take pleasure in this world and live in a manner that is good and not in the manner that the clerics...