Washington Babylon — October 17, 2008, 8:09 am
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Earlier this month, AIG executives headed to a luxury spa in California to decompress after the company received an $85 billion federal bailout.
How else does AIG spend its money? Well, federal disclosure forms show that the company set aside $750,000 to pay for the Republican convention in Minneapolis and another $750,000 to underwrite the Democratic convention in Denver.
The spirit of bipartisanship all around.
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Ratio of military recruiters to college counselors at East Los Angeles’s Roosevelt High School:
The majority of young Swedish women are attracted to both men and women.
“My body was quite happy,” said ISS mission commander Chris Hadfield. “I learned to talk with a weightless tongue.”
“This is the heart of the magic factory, the place where medicine is infused with the miracles of science, and I’ve come to see how it’s done.”
