"IF YOU WERE given a choice," my friend DeCeglie asked, "would you rather have an off-the-record dinner with Barack Obama, John McCain, Joe Biden or Sarah Palin?" Before I answer, stop and think about whom you would like to dine with - and why. I'll wait for you. I'll sing to kill time. Somehow I ...
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SINGAPORE, Oct 13 (Reuters) - Credit Suisse said on Monday the credit crisis has not derailed its plan to expand its private bank in Asia and it could boost the number of private bankers by as much as 80 percent in three years. But Marcel Kreis, head of Asia-Pacific private banking for the Swiss ...
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MIAMI— The National Hurricane Center in Miami says Tropical Storm Nana is disorganized and is expected to weaken to a tropical depression in the Atlantic. Nana's maximum sustained winds are near 40 mph. But the hurricane center says the storm's upper level winds aren't conducive to it getting ...
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PARIS— The head of the International Monetary Fund welcomed a European bank rescue plan on Monday despite its high cost, and predicted that weekend efforts by world leaders would soothe anxious global markets. "I don't think there's a reason ... to fear," Dominique Strauss-Kahn said on Europe-1 ...
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NEW YORK - Five members of a Chelsea family were trapped behind a wall of flames and acrid smoke in their apartment and killed Saturday, city officials said. Maschay Joa Valdez, 40, his wife, Delkis Balbuena, 34, and three girls, 8, 3 and 15 months, were overtaken by fumes as they huddled in a ...
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They just didn't like how it came. The Phillies figured the Dodgers would start firing at their hitters. After all, excitable Game 2 starter Brett Myers threw high and tight to Dodgers star Manny Ramirez, then behind Ramirez. The Dodgers never got around to retaliating. So, before Game 3, some ...
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LONDON - Three of the largest British banks said Monday they plan to take up to $63 billion of government money to boost their balance sheets. Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC said it will raise $34 billion worth of capital, with the government buying $8.6 billion of preference shares directly and ...
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