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...Department ask Congress for $700 billion in bank-bailout funds? Because $500 billion felt too small and $1 trillion politically impossible; one staffer, charged with justifying the figure, laughed "at the absurdity of it all." Sorkin's meeting-by-meeting account reveals just how close we came to any number of alternate realities: Morgan Stanley going bankrupt, AIG refusing government money, Goldman Sachs buying Wachovia. The detail is comprehensive and chilling, but the big picture is incomplete. The story of how the financial system arrived at such a brink and of the social and political fallout will have...
...militant organizations seething with grievances against the state and influenced in part by al-Qaeda. The 10,000-strong TTP, which was led by Baitullah Mehsud until he was killed by a U.S. drone in August, is largely made up of members of his Mehsud tribe, though an increasing number of militants from the Pakistani heartland of Punjab, along with an estimated 1,500 Uzbek and Arab fighters, have joined the force. Since Mehsud's deputy, Hakimullah Mehsud, assumed leadership in August, there has been an escalation of violence throughout the country that has seen dozens of suicide-bomb attacks...
...serving his country as president, and as a larger-than-life president at that, cannot satisfy. Restless, he meets with celebrities—Sean Penn three times—but when that is not enough, he uses his country as a media pawn. And that is how an unacceptable number of lives repeatedly get jeopardized...
...number of lives which will be lost and the disproportionate amount of life quality loss will be suffered by people in the more impoverished parts of the world,” said Nicholas C. Hayes ’08, who runs a religious environmental activist group at MIT. “This is a justice issue that we as a Church and we as a country and we as a species face...
...Golden Knights were called for too many men on the ice with four minutes to play, and the Crimson generated a number of shots on net—including a long shot from co-captain Cori Bassett that hit the pipe before skirting wide—but couldn’t capitalize...