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...Treasury has already been through a round of throwing money at financial firms in exchange for equity and the possible right of making sure bank executives get the salaries they deserve rather than the ones their boards give them...
...professor of psychiatry at the University of Montreal who wrote an accompanying review of Baron-Cohen's study, told TIME that Baron-Cohen's study, including the questionnaires used to measure autistic traits, presented major "logical and factual flaws." Because the children in the study were normally developing rather than autistic, the study showed only that exposure to testosterone was associated with typically male cognition, not a disorder...
...director of the ACLU Washington legislative office in 1972. The same stubbornness he had shown in Birmingham, though, also led to his departure from the ACLU. After a dispute with the group's leadership over whether his politically charged statements in a news article were clearly identified as personal rather than professional (the ACLU is nonpartisan), Morgan resigned in 1976. It was just another example of his uncompromising, unforgettable zeal...
...dangers of any impression of a conflict of interest. "The foundation exists as a temptation to any foreign entity or government that believes it can curry favor through a donation," he said, and urged Clinton to adopt three additional measures: first, to disclose all donations over $50,000 immediately rather than in one year's time; second, to disclose all pledges over $50,000 by foreign individuals or businesses immediately; and third, to submit to the State Department ethics review all foreign individual and business donations over...
...There is a convention that the principal heir should be kept away from real danger. As the 'spare' rather than the heir, Harry is expected by the royal family to take the ultimate military risks." - Robert Lacey, royal biographer, Washington Post...