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...Francisco Giants may no longer be willing to write controversial slugger Barry Bonds a virtual blank check for chasing the home-run record, but that doesn't mean they'll try - or be able - to stop him from cashing his mere $15.8 million paycheck this year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bonds' Contract: A Brushback Pitch | 2/1/2007 | See Source »

...employment program can stop what happened that day in Sanak. The kidnappers appeared to fit the profile of Baghdad's most notorious moonlighters, officers in Iraqi security forces who draw a government paycheck while working with sectarian militias on the side. Still, the presence of U.S. forces might have deterred the kidnappers. Chiarelli has been one of the most prominent military figures to downplay the potential gains of increasing the number of U.S. troops in Iraq. But he acknowledges the effect of troops on the ground. "Those things that are purely sectarian, normally our mere presence, the mere presence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Would a Troop Surge in Iraq Work? | 12/20/2006 | See Source »

...giving speeches in favor of Allende’s "revolution." Allende was accordingly condemned by the legislature, the judiciary, and three former presidents (including Eduardo Frei, a Marxist and former supporter of Allende) for his abuses. Finally, with many certain that a coup was inevitable given the hyperinflation (a paycheck from one week could not even afford bread in the next week), starvation, recession, and extreme civil unrest, General Augusto Pinochet took power on Sept...

Author: By Ryan M Mccaffrey | Title: The Wronging of a Dictator | 12/13/2006 | See Source »

...Celebrity spokeswoman for the Ab Roller B) The romantic lead in a new Tim McGraw film about a down-on-his-luck bull rider C) The highest paid Hollywood actress in 2006, with a $17 million paycheck D) Philip Roth's new fictional alter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 11, 2006 | 12/3/2006 | See Source »

...while the paycheck for Harvard’s president has grown considerably in recent years, it’s still substantially lower than the pay given to other Ivy League leaders. The presidents of Columbia, the University of Pennsylvania, Brown, Cornell, Yale, and Princeton all earned more than Harvard’s chief in 2004-2005, according to the Chronicle’s annual report on presidential salaries released last week...

Author: By Daniel J. T. Schuker, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Bok Passes ‘Go’ But Does Not Collect Paycheck | 11/28/2006 | See Source »

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