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Aaron Slator is now the former president of AT&T's content and advertising sales for the U-verse TV services wing of AT&T. What cost him his job managing billions of dollars? Probably the recently $
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- Dear Congresswoman Lofgren, I am writing directly to you because, of all of the Impeachment Managers, I feel an (even though once-removed) deep personal connection to you. I grew up in San Jose, and long before you became a Congresswoman, my mother, a...120 comments 548 Recs
- Mississippian KT Robbins was a 24 year-old young man when he deployed to Europe in mid-1944. He was there for the allied invasion….D Day….. and France was in the process of being liberated from Nazi subjugation. He was in a company of bakers for the...88 comments 193 Recs
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