From Huffington Post The Treasury Department was responsible for inserting exemptions into the stimulus bill that allowed bailout recipients to receive bonuses, Senator Chris Dodd said in a CNN appearance on Wednesday. According to the Connecticut Democrat, officials at the Treasury Department expressed concern that if the government were to prohibit payouts it could or [...]

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Rapper Kanye West was charged with vandalism, battery and grand theft in connection with an incident at LAX last September 11. West and his bodyguard were caught on camera by TMZ going ballistic on a paparazzo, and as a matter of fact, TMZ’s camera was damaged by the lunatic. If he is convicted he could [...]

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MSNBC is reporting that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are planning to pay retention bonuses to some executives this year, even though they reported huge losses. Fannie Mac is set to pay its CEO Michael Williams $611,000 on top of his $676,000 a year salary, Executive VP David Hisey $519,000 and VP Thomas Lund and [...]

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UPDATE: 3/21/09 Aaron Boone will have open heart surgery Thursday at the Stanford University Medical Center. Dr. D. Craig Miller will perform the procedure to correct a problem with Boone’s aorta and aortic valve. Recovery is expected to take several months. When plans for the surgery were announced Tuesday, Boone said he wasn’t sure he [...]

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Actress Anne Wiggins Brown who starred as the original Bess in George Gershwin’s folk opera “Porgy and Bess,” has died at the age of 96, in Oslo, Norway. The soprano singer was born in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1912, but moved to Oslo with her third husband in 1948, after complaining of racial discrimination in the [...]

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