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Despite the frantic efforts of Latin American diplomats to broker a truce, many Bolivians see the political violence that has shaken their country over the past week as the opening salvos of a civil war. "There isn't a bone in her body that's not broken," says Narda Baqueros, a mother of three who traveled 15 hours to the town of Cobija to retrieve the body of her niece Belki Paz Baqueros on Monday. In her mid-20s and three months pregnant, Belki was beaten to death early Friday morning by opponents of Bolivia's leftist President Evo Morales...
...with the same name. Merrill Lynch has nearly 17,000 financial advisors between its retail brokerage and wealth management units. That's part of what attracted Bank of America - B of A CEO Ken Lewis called it "the crown jewel of Merrill Lynch" - so chances are, your broker isn't going anywhere, and he or she will try to make sure that you don't either. B of A plans to keep the Merrill name and organization intact...
...company itself appeared close to selling its asset management arm to a private equity firm. There were also reports that Barclays, which had decided over the weekend not to bid for Lehman as a whole, might still be interested in buying the core of Lehman's business, its broker-dealer operation...
...Nicolas Sarkozy, holding the E.U.'s six-month rotating presidency, promised that ties with Russia would have to re-examined. "You need two for a partnership," he said. Sarkozy will lead an E.U. delegation to Moscow on September 8 to ensure Russia complies with the peace plan he helped broker last month...
...about an alleged deal he says the diplomat made with him: immunity from prosecution in return for leaving public life. Holbrooke denies there was ever such a deal. And Tribunal prosecutors say in the remote chance there was, it's "legally irrelevant," that the US has no power to broker a deal on behalf of this court and that the 1995 Dayton Accord that ended the war specifically rules out any kind of immunity...