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...were Too Big to Fail. First the auto executives swooped into town in their Gulfstream IVs to ask for $25 billion; then Merrill Lynch superman John Thain spent $1,405 on a trash can and suggested he deserved a $40 million bonus for losing $15 billion in the fourth quarter. Even Tom Daschle, whose loyal Senate brethren were set to confirm him to the Cabinet, discovered the radioactivity of the phrase "unpaid taxes on his chauffeured limousine...
...whereas Harp sees such schools as the product of an "ugly chapter in Georgia's history," black students and educators see them as a point of African-American pride. While historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) make up just 3% of U.S. schools, they produce nearly a quarter of all African-American graduates. A 2007 study showed that black men who attend a black college as opposed to another four-year school enjoy a hefty lifetime-earnings boost. HBCU alumni include Booker T. Washington, Toni Morrison, Sean (Diddy) Combs, Oprah Winfrey and more than a third of the current Congressional...
There's a sharp difference in the volume and steepness of this year's discounts from the ones offered last year. "It's like night and day," Wilson says. Online florist 1-800-FLOWERS.com, whose sales dropped for the first time in company history last quarter, is selling a dozen roses for $24.99. "That's the lowest price we've seen in 25 years," says company founder and CEO Jim McCann. (Read "Valentine's Deals That You'll Love...
...where "your 700 millionth subscriber couldn't care less about 3G," he notes that the country's market is so huge there is room for 3G services to prosper. BDA projections put the total number of mobile subscribers in China at 1 billion by 2013, of which nearly a quarter - 247 million - will be 3G users...
...With more than a quarter of Zimbabwe's population living as refugees outside of the country, a national unemployment rate of 94%, a cholera epidemic that has already killed 3,000 people and a currency rendered nearly useless by hyperinflation, Tsvangirai says the time for negotiation has passed. Explaining his decision to join Mugabe's government, the former mine worker compared the nation's humanitarian crisis to a bus hanging over a cliff: "If you allow it to tip over, we will all tip with it." (See pictures of political tension in Zimbabwe...