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...most recent round of bonuses at some of the nation’s most moneyed corporations has not escaped the notice of the Obama administration, which has ordered average compensation reductions of 50 percent at seven of the largest recipients of federal bailout funds. The cuts will affect the executives of some of the companies most closely linked with the recession, including American International Group, General Motors, and Citigroup. However, other firms that have already paid off their bailout loans, like financial behemoths Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, are immune from these restrictions and may continue to award massive bonuses...
Despite a fresh warning by the Taliban on Oct. 24 asking Afghans to boycott next month's presidential election runoff, both Afghan President Hamid Karzai and rival Abdullah Abdullah launched the second round of their campaigns, the first step toward bringing resolution to an election that has been mired in fraud and controversy. But will Afghans overcome their suspicions and security fears in order to turn out in enough numbers to bestow legitimacy on this next round...
Last week, exactly two months after Afghans first went to the polls on Aug. 20, Karzai announced that since no one candidate (out of a field of 41) had received 50% of the vote, the election would go to a second round between the two highest vote earners. An initial tally of the votes put Karzai at 54%, with Abdullah in second place at 28%, but after more than a million votes were thrown out due to irregularities, the results were recalibrated to 49% and 32%, respectively. (See a profile of Abdullah Abdullah...
...flung polling stations. This time, however, the task won't be quite so arduous. Afghanistan's election commission has decided to cut the number of polling stations by about 2,000 out of 25,000 in an attempt to mitigate some of the fraudulent methods practiced in the first round, when stations that never opened due to security fears nevertheless reported votes. The bulk of those stations were in the south and east, where insecurity is highest but where Karzai has the most support...