January 16, 2008

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  • Miller became CEO of Delphi in mid-2005, and the company filed for bankruptcy that October.

    Asked by a lawyer representing a union that has objected to the bonuses whether he would accept his bonus in stock instead of cash, Miller said: "I decided I would accept it as cash. I would have a preference for cash."

    "So would the creditors," said Tom Kennedy, a lawyer representing the IUE-CWA union.

    Delphi on Friday defended the plan to pay about $87 million in bonuses to executives upon the company's emergence from Chapter 11 protection.

    Lawyers for unions that oppose the bonus plan tried to show the bonuses were too high, and were based on comparisons to companies that were too different from Delphi to serve as models.

  • Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon named actor George Clooney, who has campaigned for refugees in Darfur, as a U.N. "messenger of peace" on Friday to promote the world body's peacekeeping efforts.

  • With fellow actors Don Cheadle and Brad Pitt, Clooney, 46, has used his celebrity status to raise money for refugees through their "Not On Our Watch" charity and draw attention to the crisis in Darfur in western Sudan.

  • Clooney has starred in a number of films with political themes and won an Oscar in 2005 for his role in "Syriana."

  • Russia's military Thursday offered compensation to a homeowner after a small rocket veered off course and hit his country house outside Moscow.

    Russian Internet chatrooms were buzzing late Wednesday after local news agencies reported that "an unidentified flying object dropped two bombs near Moscow."

    A defense ministry official told Reuters two rockets had gone astray during a military exercise near Moscow Wednesday afternoon. One hit the roof of an unoccupied house 3.5 km (2.2 miles) away.

    "The damage is estimated at 60,000 rubles ($2,466). It will be compensated for in two days," said Yevgeny Konashenkov, spokesman for Russian land troops. "The owner of the house treats the incident with understanding. He has no legal claims."

    Luckily for the nearby compound of cottage houses, the rockets disconnected at launch from the load of explosives they normally carry to clear minefields.

  • Iran may be an international pariah, but the country is nonetheless eagerly suiting up for the 2008 Beijing Olympics

  • "Go for the Gold in '08" strategy has come from the conservative religious establishment: a "special religious dispensation" that allows more women to compete, as long as they wear the proper attire. Check out Haaretz's translation of an al-Jazeera report here:

  • He said he wanted Congress to move quickly on a stimulus package that would focus on tax rebates for families and incentives to encourage business investment. The White House said the package could create about 500,000 new jobs.

  • Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said the administration hoped for a package worth about $140 billion to $150 billion, which is a little more than 1 percent of the economy's size.

  • "I am encouraged and share the president's view that we need prompt bipartisan action to strengthen our economy," said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.

  • the romans are going to green bay to inspire brett favre to lead the packers to the super bowl.

  • the cowboys think the patriots will win. but god is only on the side of the victors, the side that sweats the most blood, sheds the most pain, and swallows their pride and wins one for the nation and hometeam.

  • zen-aku-shin-jyo-ten-haku-min-tetsu-gan-chu-sen-moku-you-nin-man-zan-getsu

  • mon-tchu-han-ten-kyuu-den-ron-ryo-lin-katsu-shin-den-tou-riku-san-ryou-ban-kai

  • sen-moku-den-tetsu-shin-roku-yan-ha-chu-gan-roku-mon-katsu-shuu-gen-tepu-ron-you-mu-nen

  • kan-jyu-ron-ryoku-lin-shou-gatsu-rou-gen-nin-tou-zen-aku-kinji-yaburi-6000-nen-no-han-waga-kobushi-yaiba-shin-jyou-sei-yon

  • uri-so-won-un-tongil-waga-yume-wa-chi-mamire-no-jigoku-ga-chounan-o-sodateru-mirai-kono-yo-de-wa-shiawase-o-saga-se-nai-ten-no-messenger-ni wa yume de shika mie nai tsuki no yoru.

    waga me ni meru shiro, yuki, haku, wa iki o tome waga kokoro o iyasu.

    yuki no yoru, shiranai hito to atte, hajimete ikite ite yokata to omota omoi, shinu made kui nai.

  • yume no naka dake de mo isho de itta koto ga subette no omoi de.

  • iki ga nakunaru waga karada, shin nen made wa ten ni kaeru da rou.

    tamashii wa jigoku, kokoro wa nokori, hae ni nari, kaze o noru waga yume

    chuu in ukabu yamibito no inochi

  • yo mo kuraii akuma ga shini, ashita made ni wa akarui tai you ga matte iru da rou.

    remember when you see the sun setting, that one soldier used his last drop of blood to draw his nation's flag, and inspired an entire warrior tribe to win independence for his people's.

    his name was.

    ?????????????

    musashi 5 rings toyotomi hide-yoshi tokugawa ie-yasu oda-nobu-naga take-da shingen oosaka jou

    bushi wa kono yo de wa 1 kai shikka ikkinai. yo wa bushi o 1 kai shikka korosenai, bushi wa ikiru michi wa ippon shika nai. korosu, ca korosareu, katsu, ka yabureru. ayumu, ca harakiri. samurai, ka ronin.

    2008. 1. O SHOUGATSU O ME DE TOU GO ZAI MASU. SEN PAI.

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