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...Last week, AIG for the first time said that if it wins it plans to use the money to pay back taxpayers (AIG has received more than $170 billion in government assistance). Previously, the company had suggested that the missing shares should be used to compensate employees. Greenberg's Starr, for its part, has recently been beefing up its credentials as a charity. In the past few weeks, Starr has given out $1.5 million to antihunger and homeless causes in the New York City area. Starr is owned by a nonprofit (thus, it thinks of itself as a charity...
...Here, in a nutshell, is the source of the current disagreement. Back in 2005, Greenberg was the head of both AIG and Starr International, a private insurance company whose main asset was nearly 300 million shares of AIG. For years, Starr had used that stock to dole out retention bonuses to AIG executives. When AIG booted Greenberg, he seized control of Starr and its AIG shares. Greenberg says Starr is a separate company that was set up to use its shares to benefit a charitable trust, and insists it can do what it wants with the shares. AIG says Starr...
Medialdea is a modest man, but as he watches the gawky birds poke through the water for food, he beams. "Because of our artificial intervention, the natural environment is improved," he says. "The point isn't to make use and conservation compatible. The point is to use in order to conserve...
Thank you, Joe Klein, for being the rare writer to condemn both the use of torture and the release of its images [June 1]. The response to the use of torture should be based on a factual examination, not on a visceral reaction to pictures. Images are not necessary to understand and evaluate what has happened. One can comprehend and assess a story about a murder, for example--and have a complete moral response--without seeing the crime-scene photos. Nadia El-Badry DOBBS FERRY...
...costs are proportionate with other Presidents.' White House press secretary ROBERT GIBBS, defending the use of taxpayer money for a private social outing...