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...American International Group (AIG) fessed up to improper bookkeeping in a deal with a unit of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway. AIG severed ties with its iconic former CEO Maurice (Hank) Greenberg. But it is Greenberg's link to the even more lionized Buffett that's causing the biggest stir...
...favorite White House cliche-he raises important issues about White House reporting. His central point is that the press is biased toward conflict. It is and should be. Policy, politics and the formation of new ideas take place in an atmosphere of conflict. But not all newsworthy events contain stir and angst. Getting the balance right is important. Fleischer's discussion of left-leaning bias is relevant but feels outdated in a world where Fox news and right-leaning bloggers are ascending...
...intermittent presence of vocals only serves to further stir the strange brew of shimmers and undulations that is the band’s signature sound. Their ascetic abstention from such a historically fundamental element of rock is somewhat surprising but goes a ways in illuminating the reason these four Scots aren’t better known...
...Roman style? Or is it just rubbish, like so much urban Thai architecture? Sometimes, too, the urge to be exhaustive is just plain exhausting, although future social historians will thank Cornwel-Smith for recording how you toughen up a Siamese fighting fish before a bout. (Rather meanly, you "just stir the water.") Encyclopedic in scope, Very Thai is an unapologetic celebration of both the exotic and the everyday, and an affectionate reminder in these flag-waving times that perhaps Thais care less for state-mandated notions of national identity than their politicians think. They're much too busy being themselves...
...course, most fathers with these feelings don't kill themselves, though some are so tormented they can't hold a job nor take pleasure in anything, and their sense of victimhood can stir their baser instincts. "She's really getting a lot of pleasure out of watching me suffer," one of the Kanwal group says of his wife. He wants revenge. "Not physical. But I'm looking forward to the day when the kids work this out and turn on her. And when that happens I want to be there to see it. And that will be revenge...