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...Pfizer and Wyeth are facing a problem which is systemic and not isolated to their industry. Each expects revenue to fall in the near future as some of their largest-selling drugs lose patent protection. Putting the two companies together will allow them to fire tens of thousand of people and cut other overlapping costs. The firms are nearly identical, which makes expense savings certain...
...There is a point to these incessant conversations about Bernie on the web, on the front pages of most newspapers, and in our personal ruminations. We want to understand what kind of environment would allow his decades long financial fraud to thrive. We want to understand why sophisticated investors chose to believe that any money manager could have a multi-year string of returns which is a near statistical impossibility. (See pictures of Bernard Madoff's demise...
...seat while she runs for governor, Hutchison is being opaque about her plans. Already some well-known GOP names in Texas have announced they will run for Hutchison's seat whenever she moves on. They include Republican railroad commissioners Michael Williams and Elizabeth Ames Jones. Hutchison's resignation would allow Perry to name her replacement, supposedly giving that person an advantage in a special election. But special elections in Texas have an unpredictable quality. In 1961, after Lyndon B. Johnson's move from the Senate to the vice presidency, Republican John Tower emerged from among 70 contenders...
...dramatically, holds the food aloft and concludes with the line, "Give her a haggis!" Then everyone toasts the haggis, which is subsequently served and eaten with side dishes of neeps (turnips) and tatties (potatoes). Men give a sarcastic, sexist toast "to the lassies" and the women (most dinners now allow women) reply with a sarcastic toast about how much they hate men. More poems are recited, songs are sung, and everyone drinks a lot of whisky...
...Jonathan Brant, dismissed the city’s complaint against Kibler because of insufficient evidence. Brant, however, ruled that while selling books is constitutionally protected, the city reserves the right to implement time, place, and manner restrictions, and identified a 50-cent peddler’s permit that would allow Kibler to continue his business. O’Brien said that Kibler soon left the book stand.O’Brien said he tried to obtain this permit, but found himself mired in the city’s bureaucracy. When the city granted his request in Sept. 2006, the permit...