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...Secretary learned, 10 days after his staff first got wind of it, that AIG had paid out $165 million in retention bonuses to executives at the unit that compelled the U.S. to bail out the company in the first place. It took Geithner until 7:40 the next night to place what must have been a tense phone call to AIG's newish CEO, Ed Liddy. The bonuses were not tenable; they had to be canceled, he demanded. Liddy, a dollar-a-year man who took over the company after the bonuses had been promised, replied that AIG's lawyers...
...long time ago, when a Hilton was a hotel and Big Brother was a character in a book, there was acting and the stage - and a generation of British actors to whom those were the only things that mattered. On any given night in the small provincial theaters of Britain of the 1960s, you might catch the likes of Judi Dench, Michael Gambon, Ben Kingsley, Vanessa Redgrave or Patrick Stewart plying their trade. All were born or grew up during World War II, many in northern English counties known for their booming diction, and all shared the same obsession. Says...
Such is the VOID according to one of our frequent fliers. We know its tough...but you're oh so close to the end. Whether it be River Run tomorrow night, or going crazy at Annenberg just a few hours after that, you'll get that release you need...
...vice-presidential candidate.Flores said she believed she had to prove herself each year in a way that men on the Council did not have to.Flores also said she is held to a “higher standard” when she is out on a Friday and Saturday night than the male members of the council.But despite years-long female underrepresentation on the Council that still exists today, three of the four highest leadership posts are held by women—who may now be in the position to serve as role models for a new batch of woman leaders.MARY...
Ironically, it was U.S. technology firms that created much of the technology supporting the Great Firewall, and companies such as Google, Yahoo and Microsoft have taken tough criticism from human rights advocates for tolerating the country's censorship. "I simply don't understand how your corporate leadership sleeps at night," the late Rep. Tom Lantos, a Holocaust survivor, told tech representatives at a 2006 House hearing. Yahoo has taken the most heat, after it acknowledged giving the government information that led to the imprisonment of at least one Chinese journalist. (The company says it was required to comply with Chinese...