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FTSE, DAX, CAC to Open Higher; EU FinMins to Meet

European stocks were called to open higher on Monday ahead of a meeting between European finance ministers in Brussels where they are set to discuss the latest offer from private holders of Greek debt on losses they are willing to incur. The FTSE [.FTSE  Loading...      ()   ] is called 18 to 20 [...]

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Wagner’s cautionary tale of latest example of political bias

  By Chris Gacek —- The latest, prominent example of political bias on our nation’s university campuses comes to us from the Midwest and involves a job applicant, Teresa Wagner, and the University of Iowa College of Law. Wagner is a conservative Republican and an ardent advocate for her deeply held anti-abortion convictions. She graduated [...]

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Germany and France seek relaxation of bank capital rules: report

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Country Style Cooking Restaurant Names Adam Zhao As CFO – Quick Facts

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‘Tebow Law’ for homeschool sports finds support

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — All Will Brockman wants is to play soccer for a few more years. “I don’t have a David Beckham or a Tim Tebow on my hands, but he’s not bad,” Sharon Brockman boasts of the 13-year-old son she homeschools in Montgomery County near Christiansburg. Will plays on a private club team [...]

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School Speed Letter To Gerry Brownlee

School Speed Letter To Gerry Brownlee Dear Mr Brownlee, Congratulations on your appointment as Minister of Transport. If you want to improve our lifestyle and make lives safer on the roads, then you have a huge job ahead of you. As yet your Government has done little to address either, especially where children and other [...]

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N.J. banking and insurance commissioner to step down

Ed Murray/The Star-LedgerTom Considine, commissioner of the state Department of Banking and Insurance Tom Considine, commissioner of the state Department of Banking and Insurance, will step down next month and return to the private sector, according to sources familiar with his plans. The move will cap a two-year run as chief of the state’s banking [...]

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When Corporate Speech Jeopardizes Equality We Can’t Just "Shut It Off …

Women in America cannot achieve our full economic and personal fulfillment as long as the concentration of wealth and power in the top 1% continues to stifle democratic voices and progressive policies.  Citizens United reform — where we disclose donors, reform campaign finance laws, and amend the Constitution to enshrine the value that people are [...]

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Penn State coaching legend Joe Paterno dies at 85

The fallout in 2011 from the child sex-abuse scandal involving Jerry Sandusky, who was an assistant on Paterno’s Penn State staff until 1999, prompted the university’s Board of Trustees to fire Paterno, then 84, with three games left in the regular season. Paterno, who died Sunday at 85, was criticized for not going to law [...]

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State, USPS battle over postal records of former school board official

Brigaid/Flickr A former Manhattan Beach school board official’s refusal to relinquish postal records is at the center of an unusual public records spat between a state agency assigned to uphold election laws and the U.S. Postal Service. The California Fair Political Practices Commission has filed a lawsuit in federal court over what it called the [...]

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