Great Shots: The Art of the Basketball Goal

March 19, 2009

Photographer Bill Bamberger has spent the last several years documenting one of the most iconic objects in all of sports: the basketball goal. He doesn’t care about the regulation tempered glass boards we’ll be anxiously watching for the next few weeks of March Madness. Bamberger is more interested in basketball goals with stories to tell. […]

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Live NCAAB Scoreboard: Huge Upset Brewing Already?

March 19, 2009

[Live Scoreboard at Sports Illustrated]

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What's Another Few Billion Between Pals? White House Plans to Loan $5B More to Detroit

March 19, 2009

The Obama administration is expected to announce a program today that would offer $5 billion to the manufacturers of auto parts, a person familiar with the effort said. While GM and Chrysler have won $17.4 billion in federal loans so far, the auto supply companies — many of whom work in tandem with the automakers […]

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The Next Big Blowup: Bailed-Out Citi Plans $10M NYC Park Avenue HQ

March 19, 2009

Citigroup, which has received $45 billion in taxpayer bailout money, plans to spend $10 million on new offices at its Park Avenue headquarters for CEO Vikram Pandit and his deputies.

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Geithner: Man Under Siege

March 19, 2009

Forget that aging process a president goes through, this Gaggler is betting that Tim Geithner is getting some major grey hair these days. Just look at the picture above from today’s New York Times; The guy seriously looks like he wants to crawl in a cave and hide. Honestly, who wants to be him?

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Gapper: Geithner Should Not be Forced to Resign

March 19, 2009

Further to my column this morning, I am not in the camp of those thinking that Tim Geithner ought to step down as US Treasury secretary for failing to curb the AIG bonuses or coming up with a detailed plan to buy troubled assets.

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Obama was Right the First Time: AIG Contracts Provide No Escape

March 19, 2009

The AIG bonus scandal probably won’t lead to any forced return of those bonuses after all. Instead, what emerged from the House Financial Services Committee hearing on AIG’s payment of $165 million in bonuses to executives was that there probably isn’t a legal way to avoid paying those bonuses now. Despite the expressions of outrage […]

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Young: Chas Freeman and the Old Realism

March 19, 2009

When the former American ambassador Charles “Chas” Freeman last week decided not to accept his appointment as chairman of the National Intelligence Council, many people, particularly in the Middle East, put this down to the workings of the pro-Israel lobby in Washington. Mr Freeman, in a departing salvo, substantiated that interpretation. However, his Arab defenders […]

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Claims Data Give Wall Street Rally Legs

March 19, 2009

Stock-index futures climbed Thursday, continuing a rally that has taken stocks up sharply from bear-market lows, after new claims for unemployment benefits unexpectedly fell last week. About 45 minutes before the start of trading in New York, futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average were up by around 30 points. S&P 500 and Nasdaq futures […]

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The Great Health Care Reform Clash

March 19, 2009

In early January, most of Barack Obama’s senior staff assembled with the president-elect for a meeting inside a windowless, eighth-floor office at the transition headquarters in Washington. It was a pivotal moment in Obama’s transformation from candidate to commander-in-chief. Obama’s advisers had taken all of his campaign pledges, factored in his promise to reduce the […]

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