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...danger proved short-lived. Centerfielder Brendan Akashian had advanced to third courtesy of a ground-ball single to left field with two outs, but the man who had put him there, right fielder Steve Buckley, was thrown out while attempting to steal second by freshman reliever Max Warren...
...trust-me CEO took another bullet last week, when 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...
...asked Schwarzenegger about the imbalance, especially the property-tax situation-a problem the Governor's informal financial adviser, Warren Buffett, has said was key to solving California's fiscal crisis. "We looked at that," Schwarzenegger told me, "but we decided that California had a spending problem, not a revenue problem." This seemed palpably ridiculous, given that California is 42nd in the nation in per-pupil education spending. But the Governor wasn't budging, and our conversation drifted into his standard riffs, some of them quite entertaining, about the "dinosaurs" in Sacramento who introduce bills about "plastic surgery for dogs...
Lagemann, who is the Warren Professor of the History of American Education, said that her decision was based on her desire “to return to writing history...
...Warren Professor of American History Ernest R. May portrays Kennan’s two documents as a decisive shift in post-war thought. “[In 1946] a lot of people in Washington were concerned that Truman would have a primarily domestic focus, maybe even isolationist...[but] Kennan’s analysis was very persuasive to Truman [with its] argument of the Soviet threat and its understanding that the U.S. can’t retreat from the world...