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...Recently, Andrew Cuomo, The New York Attorney General, announced that "Of the $165 Million pool, we calculate that employees have agreed to return approximately $50 million." This reflects about 20 percent of the $218 billion that Connecticut's Attorney General has said AIG paid in bonus compensation, but it's an impressive start...
...Meanwhile, the brouhaha is bringing what some locals consider to be unwelcome attention to the laid-back canton. Melchior Looser, Appenzell's justice and police minister who spearheaded the proposed legislation, didn't return TIME's request for an interview but told a local newspaper that the sudden public interest in the naked-hikers issue is "absolutely ridiculous. I don't understand what all the fuss is about." (See pictures of the newest natural wonders of the world...
...been looking for a way out - in part because Spaniards don't recognize an independent Kosovo and also because they have their own separatist issues to deal with at home, in the form of Basque and Catalan nationalism. "The mission has been completed, and it's time to return home," Chacón said. The men and women in uniform greeted the announcement warmly. But almost everyone else has seen it - though not necessarily the withdrawal itself - as an unmitigated disaster. (See pictures of riots caused by Serbia's anger over Kosovo's independence...
...While two of the Crimson’s elite competitors expressed dissatisfaction with their season-ending performances, all three nationally-ranked wrestlers will return for Harvard in the fall, heading a talented squad and harboring ambitions of making another run at national titles...
...Obama's central theme is being tested. The discussion is now likely to return to the promise Obama made last month, when he told Congress that he was willing to "sacrifice some worthy priorities" to make his budget responsible. White House aides say that the president has already made significant sacrifices by scaling back his campaign promises in the current budget. To make the numbers balance under a rosier outlook, Obama shrunk the size of the "Make-Work-Pay" tax credit by 20%, to $800 per family. He slowed down his foreign aid spending plans, scrapped a plan to reduce...