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...pictures of the stock-market crash...
...pictures of the stock market crash...
...might not accomplish much. "Changing the pay system would not have prevented the current crisis at all," says Johnson, because the people taking crazy risks didn't think they were taking crazy risks. Top executives at now defunct Lehman Brothers had most of their wealth tied up in company stock, for example, yet that didn't stop them from steering the company over the cliff--because they had no inkling that was what they were doing...
...would be interesting, just for the fun and justice of it, to subject Rumsfeld to four hours in a stress position - standing stock still with his arms extended, naked, in a cold room after maybe two hours' sleep. But that's not going to happen. Indeed, it seems probable that nothing much is going to happen to the Bush Administration officials who perpetrated what many legal scholars consider to be war crimes. "I would say that there's some theoretical exposure here" to a war-crimes indictment in U.S. federal court, says Gene Fidell, who teaches military justice at Yale...
Howdy, Pard'ner! Rodeo season kicks off in Texas on Jan. 16, with the Fort Worth Stock Show & Rodeo. Billed as America's oldest stock show, 113 years strong, it features daily rodeo events, livestock shows and, if you haven't spent all your Christmas money, vendors selling those cool Western belt buckles and boots. Jan. 16 to Feb. 8. Will Rogers Memorial Center; 817-877-2420 for tickets...