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Getting It Right

Arnold Hamilton - April 19, 2012 1

BY RON du BOIS Medical expenses have long been the leading cause of bankruptcy in the U.S., an embarrassment to the "richest" nation on the...

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Curbing Cyberbullying

Arnold Hamilton - April 19, 2012 0

BY GENE POLICINSKI The First Amendment’s protection for free speech seems fairly unlimited – an unambiguous provision included in just 45 simple words that begin...

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Dreaming Of A New ‘Norm’ For Executive Pay

Arnold Hamilton - April 19, 2012 0

BY FROMA HARROP Lavishly paid executives have a new 1% number to ponder. It’s not about their perch on the top branch of U.S. incomes. It’s the lousy 1% rise in Citibank’s quarterly revenues, which helped prompt the bank’s stockholders to reject CEO Vikram Pandit’s $15 million pay package. That they were earning a meager […]

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The Citizens United Gang

Arnold Hamilton - April 19, 2012 0

BY JIM HIGHTOWER The Lone Ranger was a masked man who was out to bring bad guys to justice. Ed Conard is a masked man who is out to bring bad guys to power. A multimillionaire financier who was a top henchman in Bain Capital, Mitt Romney’s old outfit of corporate plunderers, Conard is currently […]

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Women’s Work

Arnold Hamilton - April 19, 2012 0

BY SUSAN ESTRICH As it turns out, Hilary Rosen was wrong about Ann Romney not working a day in her life. She’s plainly working right now, as a strategist for her husband’s campaign, not a stay-at-home mom. For all the shock and chagrin about Rosen’s comment [which was, of course, poorly put, but was an […]