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...mostly with nonprofits like hospices andfood banks. Our 55-year-old company, VALIC, was highly respected for its integrity and personal service. AIG is now selling our profitable company to the highest bidder to help pay back taxpayers. The good news is that we are reversing our ill-advised name change, dropping AIG Retirement in favor of our original name. But what am I supposed to do with all my AIG-embroidered hats, shirts and jackets? John Wilkins, APTOS, CALIF...
...worst economic downturn since 1945, it is to heed those who warn that danger is ahead - and to listen to those who argue that it is precisely the least expected catastrophe (a "black swan," as they are now known after Nassim Nicholas Taleb's 2007 book of that name) that can do the most damage. That does not mean we should all live, risk averse, cowering in a cave of our own making. It does mean that it behooves us to listen to those who, based on knowledge and insight, warn us of what might go wrong. There...
...driven it to the IMF several times in the past 30 years, but it wanted backup financing agreed just in case. Tellingly, the IMF extended the credit line through a new facility that doesn't impose the same sort of rigid conditions that gave the organization such a bad name in the past. That prompted Stephen Timms, financial secretary to Britain's Treasury, to crow: "We have gone beyond the era of stigma." India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said he viewed Mexico as a precedent, and concurred with Timms. "We are very happy that the [loan] conditions are being...
Cohen—who leads the Crimson in goals, points, shots and shots on goal—continued to make a name for himself this past Saturday during his team’s complete trouncing of the visiting Holy Cross Crusaders...
...team led by microbiologist Jill Mikucki of Dartmouth College, set out to look for any such hangers-on at a particularly unforgiving place: Blood Falls, on the East Antarctic Ice Sheet. Blood Falls got its unlovely name due to red staining that comes from a snout on the Taylor Glacier - the result of heavy deposits of iron in its water. In ages past, a fjord ran through the area and brought with it swarms of marine life, but more than 1.5 million years ago the ice began to rise, and a pool of seawater became trapped - and then capped - creating...