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...says dealing with issues like capital regulation is much more important if the E.U. and the rest of the world want to avoid a repeat of the economic meltdown. "But banking business models will not change one bit with these bonus rules because the ability to circumvent [this type of] regulation is unlimited," he says. (See the top 10 financial collapses...
...Democratic leaders and the state legislature. Further, if Giuliani were elected governor of New York, he might pose a threat to President Obama’s own reelection bid in 2012. It is quite reasonable, then, for President Obama to communicate his concerns to Governor Paterson so as to avoid the many problems for the Democratic Party that an unsuccessful New York gubernatorial campaign could create...
...Upon entering the dining hall, notices warn students to use a clean plate each time one gets more food from the lines to avoid contamination. Too bad for those environmentally conscious friends trying to save resources and conserve water—in the game of swine-flu dodging, the Dudley Co-operative Society is surely at a disadvantage...
...edge of the neighboring district of Mitte, the focus of the city's bar and restaurant culture. West Berlin was catnip to avant-garde artists, musicians and filmmakers from all over the world; its population swelled still further as young West German men moved to the city to avoid the military service that was compulsory in the rest of the country. But today East is cooler than West. "That's where people with money want to live," says Klausmeier. "Now there's a social border in place of the physical one. It continues to shock...
...Republicans need to avoid the perception of being the Party of No, and it's not clear that they are succeeding. A Bloomberg survey this month found that a majority of people were disapproving of the Republican scare tactics that were used over the summer: 63% said death panels weren't legit, 59% said they didn't believe health care would be rationed, and 52% said they didn't believe the oft-repeated GOP line that the Dems are putting the nation on a path to socialized medicine. And a Sept. 11-13 USA Today/Gallup poll found that 60% believe...