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After spending a year away from school, my uni's "welcome pack" comes as a shock. I always knew it would be coming; I just didn't expect there to be quite so much of it. I count 17 separate documents before dumping them on my bed for perusal sometime later. Much later.
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Volunteers find 30 tonnes of rubbish on 3,560ft peak
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A squirrel in Spokane, Washington ignites a fiery chain of events.
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Former U.S. President Bill Clinton and Sen. Hillary Clinton have explained to voters why they think Barack Obama's Democratic ticket is the best choice for middle-class families.
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Iceland has turned to two women to rebuild its financial system after the banking empire built by its young, male business-schooled elite collapsed
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British motorists might think they get a rough ride from traffic police. But officers on the other side of the Channel have greater powers and a less forgiving attitude as Mike Rutherford discovered
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If this ABC News report is accurate, it looks like Republicans will oust at least one Democratic incumbent this year....
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New programs aim to aid hundreds of thousands of homeowners facing foreclosure. Options include lower rates and debt forgiveness. Is there help for you?
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I.B.M.'s chief financial officer said the company's earnings were strong because it did little business with financial firms.
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From Bits: Despite concerns that I.B.M. is heavily reliant on financial services companies for revenue, the tech giant draws only 7 percent of its revenue from those firms in the United States.
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WARREN Buffett, the world's richest man according to Forbes magazine, says he is buying US stocks even though the American economy is in a "mess".
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As the global financial turmoil shifts from full-blown panic to widespread anxiety, a lot of readers are also getting angry. And they're taking names: “Who’s responsible for this mess?”
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NEW YORK -- Investigators are hunting through the remains of the stock-market collapse and housing bust of 2008 for fresh signs of white-collar crime, targeting many of the same types of misdeeds that precipitated past market downturns.
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Under-fire Juande Ramos went on the defensive last night - standing by his decision to drop David Bentley and refusing to hit out at his Tottenham flops.
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When Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling were talking tough to Iceland a few weeks ago – seizing the UK assets of Icelandic banks and promising to stand behind all UK savers with money in those banks' accounts – I felt a great national pride. After all, the Icelandic Government had apparently told us that they had no intention of honouring their obligations in the UK – even though hundreds of thousands of savers had deposited money in the UK subsidiaries of their banks.
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NOW, it really is beginning to look like the 1980s, which were the result, not of a great bang, but a series of whimpers from governments which would not, or could not, do what was required in earlier years.
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Like the boy who cried wolf, corporate and regulatory officials have issued a lot of hogwash over the years.
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On Friday, we wrote about how the Municipal Art Society is putting together a design forum to come up with ideas for the redevelopment of Coney Island, kicking off the initiative today. But this weekend, a Department of City Planning spokeswoman sent over a statement from planning director Amanda Burden that effectively fired a shot over the Municipal Art Society's bow, saying that the city welcomes new ideas—but not any that would change or interfere with its own rezoning plan for the area. "It is imperative that the rezoning process and timeline not be jeopardized by any reconsideration of our proposed rezoning boundaries or urban design parameters," Ms. Burden said in the statement. read more »
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The FTSE 100 has fallen more than 40pc from its recent highs. But as Jeff Randall argues this doesn't mean shares are cheap.
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When a drug lord’s daughter turns up dead, every suspect becomes a victim. Plus, dressing as a cop and robbing liquor stores on Halloween turns out to be a very bad idea.
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End users aren't the only ones whose misguided actions can bring a smooth-running network to a screeching halt. IT pros make their share of mistakes, too -- from sliding on DR planning to stalling on repairs to ignoring the need for logs and documentation.
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A government plan allowing "modification" of mortgages could help 3 million.
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A 24-hour hotline is launched to report pet owners who don't clean up after their dog... plus more news in brief from around Wales.
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Gregg Doyel has a solution for those all hot and bothered about the World Series running into November or whatever else is wrong with their beloved game. Don't sweat the small stuff -- and that's what baseball has become.
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It's hard to believe, but people are starting to express outrage over the New York Fed hiring the former chief risk officer of Bear Stearns to help supervise banks. To be fair, I feel like I should acknowledge that it would be practically impossible to clean up this mess without employing some of the people [...]
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The first exit polls showed one in 10 voters were casting their first ballots.
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Larry Brown sat down in a familiar spot in Madison Square Garden's interview room and was quickly asked how he'd solve the Knicks' problems.
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PATRAS, Greece (Reuters) - The West's war against the Taliban drove Khalid Mohamed from his home. But his search for asylum in Europe has left him trapped in a shanty town in Greece, ignored by the government and abused by police.
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Among them: Where do people go when they lose their homes? Do we have too many houses? And why on earth are we still building new ones anyway?
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After some back-and-forth in the medical community, it has generally been decided that iPods and MP3 players do not seriously interfere with pacemaker functions. However, a study points to an entirely new concept of the risk involved with these devices. It is not the music player itself that can cause disruption.
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COMMUNITY groups could take over more than 400 unprofitable childcare centres after the collapse of ABC Learning Centres, Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard hinted yesterday.
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A congressional staffer said Net neutrality and broadband legislation will surely be reintroduced in the next Congress, but representatives of the telecom industry say there are better ways to keep the Internet open.
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As I watch the world economy spiraling downward, I thank my lucky stars that I happen to work in one of the few industries that is expected to grow despite the downturn. Nonetheless, online retailers are going to face slower growth than we were all predicting even a few weeks ago, and the industry is being forced to completely reevaluate budgets and priorities.
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The Bush administration's decision to drop what it once billed as its main weapon to fight the financial crisis has raised concerns that many more firms may now seek public funds to survive the downturn.
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Hip-hop-rock-funk group, known to many through a recent Adam Sandler movie, gives students a taste of Israeli culture and leaves them with some new things to think about. The faces onstage were unfamiliar and so was the language, but students at Franklin High School didn't appear to mind as they gathered in the courtyard Tuesday to watch Hadag Nahash, an Israeli hip-hop-rock-funk group, perform songs entirely in Hebrew.
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It is a mystery to me why Labour has narrowed the Tory lead in some opinion polls. It is said Gordon Brown - and his sidekick Alistair Darling - are having a good financial crisis.
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Poor Hank Paulson doesn't deserve the drubbing he's been getting.
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ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND'S outgoing chairman yesterday said he was "profoundly sorry" for the bank's terrible mess as shareholders voted massively in favour of a Government 20 billion bail-out package.
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Afghanistan's swift unraveling has created new - and in some quarters unrealistic - enthusiasm for talks with the Taliban.
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