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Under the old Bear Stearns plan, top executives were required to donate 4% of their bonuses to charity. For Goldman, that would mean a charitable donation of just over $700 million. And that's if every employee is forced to participate, which is not likely to be the case. Still, even $700 million would be far less than the $12.9 billion Goldman received when AIG was bailed out by the Federal Government. And it's a fraction of what Goldman has been making in the market at a time when the government is spending trillions to support asset prices...
...passengers a disincentive to check their bags makes the experience worse for everyone, even the people who paid the fees to check their bags. I admit, I don't like dragging a suitcase around a cramped jet. I prefer to check mine if I have enough time. But I still have to find a spot for a laptop case and coat, and I still risk getting beaned by falling valises or smacked by baggage that's being hauled down the aisle by overloaded, exhausted, ill-tempered passengers...
...meal, with the pasta carefully segregated from the appetizer and main course and no place for a bowl of hummus or plate of egg rolls. "People now accept that immigrants are here," says Giuseppe Sciortino, an immigration expert and sociology professor at the University of Trento. "But they're still in denial that they are a presence that will change Italy forever...
...resolutions, but the inquiry's 550-page final report insisted that there was no U.N. mandate for the attack. "There was insufficient legitimacy" for the invasion, commission chairman Willibrord Davids said. Although the commission quashed rumors that the Netherlands played a military role in the invasion, it is still expected to embarrass Balkenende for offering vital political support despite flimsy evidence of Iraq's threat...
...Evidence" in the second dossier, published in February 2003, turned out to have been plagiarized from an article in a Middle Eastern journal. But it was the first dossier, presented as intelligence information about Saddam's weapons capability and distributed to members of the press in September 2002, that still poisons relations between the British political classes and the journalists that cover them. (See pictures of Tony Blair's friendship with George W. Bush...