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...effectively taken a page out of the AIG playbook for gaming the Administration and Congress. Henry Paulson and his associates were led to believe, perhaps rightly, that if AIG failed it would cost other financial companies so significantly that the government would have to bailout almost every large financial firm in the country. GM's argument is even simpler. A liquidation of the car firm would probably cost tens of thousands of jobs at the company, and many times that at suppliers. That argument is also old, but with the chance of liquidation in the next few months becoming more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: General Motors Checkmates Obama in Two Moves | 3/18/2009 | See Source »

...question poses itself: Do the Democrats take a page from the Republican playbook and threaten to “go nuclear” (as the Republicans threatened in 2005 out of frustration at Democratic cloture holds on conservative judicial nominees...

Author: By Clay A. Dumas | Title: Son of Nuclear Option? | 3/18/2009 | See Source »

...Harvard Viswanathans: We didn’t steal your playbook, we “internalized” it. Why mess with success...

Author: By Daniel K Bilotti and Vincent M Chiappini, CONTRIBUTING WRITERSS | Title: Prestige and Mobility: Macaroni Mascots | 3/12/2009 | See Source »

Dianne Feinstein confirmed Thursday that her Senate Intelligence Committee will investigate the CIA's interrogation and detention programs under the Bush Administration, a probe that she expects to take a year. The Californian seems to be reading from the same playbook as Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Patrick Leahy, who this week reiterated his call for a 'truth commission' into the Bush Administration's national security policies, including wiretapping, treatment of detainees and even the politicization of the Justice Department...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CIA Vets Blast Senate Probe of Operations Under Bush | 3/6/2009 | See Source »

Having set the bar high, U2 gradually limbos underneath it. The trouble begins with "Magnificent," another catchy, thunderous love song out of the recent U2 playbook. At least it seems that way until the arrival of the portentous line "I was born to sing for you/ I didn't have a choice but to lift you up/ And sing whatever song you wanted me to." Delivered with an ambivalent growl by one of the most famous men in the world - one who got that way by being a singer of songs and lifter of souls - it suddenly sounds less like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U2's Unsatisfied — and Unsatisfying — New Album | 2/26/2009 | See Source »

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