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...When asked if the Allies' effort was worth the estimated 20 million lives lost, Harry Patch, 111, the last surviving British veteran of World War I, replied, "It wasn't worth one." Patch died just days after fellow British WW I soldier Henry Allingham, 113, passed away...
...Feinberg does face tough decisions, such as what to do about Andrew J. Hall, head of the moneymaking Phibro energy-trading unit of money-hemorrhaging Citigroup, whose performance-based contract could net him about $100 million this year. One can extrapolate from Feinberg's past performance, though, that the veteran mediator will come up with a decent compromise - that is, one that leaves everyone unhappy...
...British embassy in the aftermath of the election, writing nationalistic signs like "You are no longer a superpower. We are." He said he has no doubt that Western intelligence agencies played a significant role in fomenting postelection unrest, perhaps even in killing protesters. A 60-year-old veteran of the Iran-Iraq war, who lives in Qum, one of the most consistently conservative cities in Iran, wholeheartedly agreed with the regime's scripted story. "Our current problems are all because of foreign agents like the BBC ... This country is now under attack," he said...
...doesn't have to peer too far back at previous health-reform efforts to realize that "the devil is in the detail," as Rahm Emanuel, President Obama's chief of staff and a veteran of health-reform efforts under Clinton, recently said. Emanuel helped work on the 1996 Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), one of several incremental changes made after Clinton's comprehensive reform failed to go anywhere in 1994. HIPAA was intended to ensure that Americans would not be denied coverage on the basis of pre-existing conditions when they switched coverage while moving from...
...July Teoh Beng Hock, 30, was found dead beneath the 14th story window of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission offfices after a late night interrogation by officers, sparking national outrage. Opposition lawmakers blame the death on the MACC and accuse the authorities of unleashing the commission against them. Veteran opposition lawmaker Lim Kit Siang is demanding a Royal Commission of Inquiry into all the circumstances leading to Mr Teoh's death. "The people are entitled to know the whole truth," he told TIME...