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...York City Giving In and Giving Back Some of the AIG executives under fire for taking fat bonuses have agreed to return the money. The insurance giant, which has received $180 billion in bailout funds, was obligated to pay out $165 million in bonuses as part of employees' contracts--prompting outrage from the public and in Congress. In all, more than $50 million in bonus money has been returned...
...travel agency Expedia.com reported a 20% drop in flights from the U.S. to the Caribbean from this time last year for some airlines--a sign that more college students are staying Stateside (and saving money) during spring break. That's good news for Orlando, Fla.; Los Angeles; and New York City, which have seen a 25% jump in trips this year...
...Somebody had to get a little lucky with him.' RALPH AMENDOLARO, a Queens, N.Y., construction worker, explaining his rationale for playing Bernard Madoff's prison number in the New York Lottery...
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...York Rockefeller, Reconsidered Governor David Paterson reached an agreement with legislators to scale down the state's Rockefeller drug laws, some of the earliest statutes in the nation to lay out mandatory minimum sentences for drug offenders. Critics and activists hailed the pact, arguing that mandatory minimums contribute to prison overcrowding and recidivism and incarcerate addicts who should instead receive treatment. The original laws, which were a model for much of the legislation passed at the height of America's War on Drugs in the 1980s, mandated minimum sentences as long as 15 years for certain drug offenses--the same...