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...businesses, corporations and the controversial child credit. In an instant, what should have been a political winner had been reduced to a question of fairness: Should Congress take from the poor and give to the rich? "They took what we thought was a very popular issue," chortled Representative Barney Frank of Massachusetts, "and turned it into a controversial...
...acknowledged as recently as February. To make matters worse, the firm remained in technical default on $225 million in loans from Bank of America, J.P. Morgan and other lenders. "We are beginning to seriously doubt the company's viability," says analyst Tobias Levkovich, who follows the firm for Smith Barney...
Anti-gay slurs defaced a Leverett House poster advertising the Saturday speech of U.S. Rep. Barney Frank '61-'62 (D-Mass.), angry house residents said yesterday...
...poster, which originally read "Come Hear Barney Frank Talk About Political Life in Washington and How He Copes With Conservatives Like Newt Gingrich," was "doctored to read 'See How Barney Frank Deals With Being a Faggot,'" said Leverett resident Sarah J. Manguso...
...countries suddenly considered at risk, especially developing nations that were the darlings of money managers just a few months ago. ``What we're seeing around the world is a flight from risk and thus a flight from emerging markets,'' said Paul Horne, an economist with the investment firm Smith Barney in Paris. ``Investors have become concerned with countries in which the triple threat of a high deficit, high public debt and high unemployment is a problem...