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...visiting from out of town, there will always be people clamoring for admission. Buying formal tickets simply to sell them, however, is a cynical money-making enterprise, a watering down of house spirit, and a disincentive to actually attend the event. Expectations are set unrealistically high when a hefty sum is put down for a ticket, with people sourly wondering, “I paid $90 for this...
...government's financial stress tests were announced last week, Citigroup seemed to have dodged a bullet. The bank, long thought to be in the worst shape among the nation's largest lenders, was said to need just $5.5 billion in capital in order to return to health. No small sum, to be sure. But amazingly, what Citi was required to raise was less than half the $13.7 billion that competitor Wells Fargo was told to come up with. And far less than the nearly $34 billion that regulators said Bank of America needed to bolster its capital...
...regime, accepts its legitimacy and is willing to provide long-term development assistance. Only the U.S. can persuade the leadership in South Korea not to seek to absorb the North or undermine it - so long as North Korea terminates its plutonium-bomb program under verifiable conditions. In sum, it can be argued, North Korea's security is actually the best way to promote South Korea's and the region's security...
Rice, Condoleezza •Nixonian argument of that waterboarding is not torture because it was authorized by Bush and therefore, simply by virtue of its White House approval, is legal, and so, to sum up, cannot possibly be torture, which is illegal...
...hours he's expected to work each month in Hamilton Island on the Great Barrier Reef (key duties: snorkelling, feeding fish, blogging), he'll be put up in a three-bedroom oceanfront villa (with swimming pool just in case he tires of the sea) and be paid the princely sum of $110,000. (See TIME's 100 most influential people...