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...limits on pay are set up to hit a number of high paid people at banks and brokerages. Putting restrictions on CEOs and top management compensation was expected to be a part of any plan to control the actions of companies which have received or will receive government funds to stay solvent. But, the new rules are set up to hit the pocket books of some of the financial firms' employees who bring their employers huges amounts of profit. ( See pictures of TIME's Wall Street covers...
...down court. When the whistle blew, Pusar broke free from his defender and took the inbound pass. The captain looked to pass it back to Lin, the team’s leading scorer, only to find him swarmed by two Lion defenders with time ticking down. Abandoning the original plan, Pusar took a few hurried steps up to half court where he launched the ball at the rim. Seeing the shot fall short, the Columbia bench leapt to its feet in a victorious fervor.Throughout the first 10 minutes of the second, Harvard had looked primed for victory. The Crimson chugged...
...starters. Among the three, Kenyi experienced the most offensive success by going 8-of-9 in free throws and scoring 14 total points.Compared to Harvard’s reserves, Cornell’s bench proved to be more supplemental than instrumental to the Big Red’s game plan. Freed up by Foote, Wroblewski led the Big Red’s nonstarters with his shooting and contributed 17-of-44 points from the bench.“They’re deep,” Amaker said. “They’ve been very successful...
...Republican Senator Judd Gregg announced on Thursday that he no longer wished to be the Commerce Secretary nominee, he said that the decision was based in part on serious disagreements with the Obama White House over the 2010 census. That night on Fox News, Sean Hannity called Obama's plans for the census process "the biggest White House power grab ever," as his guest Karl Rove voiced agreement. The same day, House Republicans declared that the White House had "an unprecedented plan" for the census that "will taint results and open doors to massive waste of taxpayer funds...
...Gregg, who does not expect to seek re-election in 2010, first made his concerns clear to Obama earlier this week. They met Wednesday at the White House, just a day after Gregg had conspicuously chosen not to vote at all on the Senate's stimulus plan. The news was kept secret until Thursday. In a briefing to reporters at the White House, Obama's chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, said the news had come as a blow. "My first thought was, It's better we discovered it now than later," he said, according to the Wall Street Journal...