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...billion Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), the stock-market swoon, the credit crunch and the ongoing global recession - $165 million is small change. But the revelations of the AIG bonuses, like nothing else, seemed to finally tip the mounting public furor over corporate malpractice into a full-scale rebellion. Yet Geithner, embarrassed for discovering the bonuses so late, plans to dock AIG that much out of the next $30 billion in bailout funding when it is delivered - which amounts to a mere 0.1% of the total AIG has received. Assorted Senators, from New York Democrat Chuck Schumer to Montana Democrat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How AIG Became Too Big to Fail | 3/19/2009 | See Source »

...fronts faster than anyone has tried to do before. "People want a quick, clean, decisive resolution to this stuff, they want us to just fix it and have it be over with," says a senior Administration official. "We are moving in a relatively short period of time on a scale that I don't think you've ever seen an Administration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Plan to Buy Toxic Bank Assets Delayed Again | 3/19/2009 | See Source »

...student. Before her date, each woman was given either "simulation information" (a photograph of the man and a short personal profile that included his name, age, height, hometown and favorite movie, sport, book, song, food and college class) or "surrogation information" (another undergraduate woman's enjoyment rating, on a scale of 1 to 100, of a speed date with the same man). Based on either packet of info, each participant was asked to predict how much she would enjoy her own speed date (in scientific terms, her "affective reaction"); after the actual date, each woman filled out her own score...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Predict What You'll Like? Ask a Stranger | 3/19/2009 | See Source »

...night of River Run usually involves large-scale consumption of alcohol. We recommend that you use this to your advantage. Offer drinks to your frenemies in other blocking groups, ensuring that when the race begins, all they can do is stumble (and maybe puke behind Grays...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Race to the River | 3/18/2009 | See Source »

...Lampoon Castle. Word has it that if you scale the side and steal the ibis on top, the River Gods will speed you along to the House of your choice...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Race to the River | 3/18/2009 | See Source »

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