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...pharaoh, buried alive and then later dead," Kampusch says in the documentary. At the beginning of her captivity in the 50-sq.-ft. (4.6 sq m) basement, Kampusch recalls how she used to count the seconds to try to keep track of time but soon could no longer tell whether it was day or night. Priklopil reinforced her sense of isolation by installing an intercom and a timer that turned the lights on and off at regular intervals so she wouldn't even have contact with him. She says she was tortured by the sounds of the wheezing ventilator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Austrian Kidnap Victim Revisits Her Cellar Prison | 1/27/2010 | See Source »

...devil [of clawbacks] is in the details," Harvard's Bebchuck told the House panel on compensation. "Firms have not provided sufficient information for outsiders to be able to assess whether the adopted clawbacks are meaningful or merely cosmetic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Financial Firms Get Executives to Give Back Pay? | 1/27/2010 | See Source »

...certain that any of the banks would, at the end of the day, have gone along with any offers from BlackRock, an adviser to the Fed. Nor is it clear whether any deals would have been more profitable for AIG, given the rebound in the credit markets. But what is clear is that the troubled insurer had more room to bargain than it and its government rescuers have let on. AIG and BlackRock declined to comment both on the bond manager's report and AIG's bond-insurance dealings. (See the best business deals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Could the U.S. Have Saved Billions on AIG Rescue? | 1/27/2010 | See Source »

...grown increasingly unclear in the past week whether Bernanke—whose term as Federal Reserve chairman expires Sunday—can garner the needed 60 votes in the Senate to be reconfirmed...

Author: By Gautam S. Kumar and Julia L Ryan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Econ Profs Split on Bernanke ’75 | 1/27/2010 | See Source »

...Grammy and Emmy winner will be honored Feb. 5 by the Pudding. Whether he'll be bringing sexy back is yet to be determined...

Author: By Naveen N. Srivatsa, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: JT's the Man! | 1/26/2010 | See Source »

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