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...employees fled. Now some are coming back. Recently, two top Merrill veterans Todd Kaplan and Sam Chapin rejoined the firm. "When I left it was chaotic around here," says Kaplan, an executive vice chairman at Merrill. "Now the place feels like Merrill did in the 1990s. There's none of the infighting. It's terrific...
...populism for Political Research Associates, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is not alone in drawing parallels between America's patriot movement and Germany's Weimar Republic. "You see the rise of a large group of disaffected middle-class and working-class people with a strong sense of grievance," he says. "None of the major parties speak for them." If their grievances aren't resolved, he warns, they are likely to become more militant. The message from the militias is largely the same: whether it takes a whisper or a shout, we will be heard. --Reported by Sam Allis/Boston, Edward Barnes/Petoskey, Michigan...
...Masters wanted to see how the pilot works before committing themselves,” he said, “but none of the Masters were entirely opposed to the idea...
...military's high-low warplane mix of F-22s and F-35s. The Pentagon launched the F-35 Lightning II program a month after 9/11. Over the past eight years, the price-per-plane has doubled - from $69 million to as much as $135 million - even as none of the 2,443 on-order planes have been delivered. The program's cost has soared from $197 billion to as much as $329 billion. Plans to profit from prospective sales of more than 700 of the single-engine, single-seat fighters to eight allied nations are beginning to look like wishful...
...deadlock suggests that Iran is unlikely to accept the terms currently on offer by the West for resolving the dispute, but that doesn't necessarily preclude any deal - Iran has floated a number of counter offers for exchanging smaller amounts of uranium or storing it on Iranian soil, but none of these has so far been acceptable to the U.S. and its allies, whose stated objective remains ending all uranium enrichment in Iran. Tehran has held firm to the principle that the NPT allows it to enrich uranium for energy purposes, under international scrutiny - and it has been willing...