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...that Germany has safeguarded its core commercial banks from foreign raiders, the Postbank, a large retail bank with no corporate lending or investment banking activities, could end up in foreign hands. "Postbank is the last chance for anyone who wants get into the German commercial banking market," said Becker, the Merck Finck analyst...
...despite conservationists best efforts, poachers and drug smugglers have little regard for them - or for protection laws. Some hard-core collectors won't miss any opportunity to swipe a cactus. That's why visitors to Copenhagen's botanical gardens must view rare cactus plants behind glass walls and, as a curator at London's world famous Kew Gardens told Terry, "Every year, we put out a plant and every year someone steals...
...women voters McCain hopes to attract with the Palin nomination are not likely to be core Clinton supporters, who tend to be politically liberal and pro-choice - different from the largely conservative and strictly pro-life policies embraced by Palin. But McCain advisers have identified a significant number of more moderate, independent women voters who have not yet committed to Obama...
...dashed back from Denver to help coordinate his city's evacuation plans. Yesterday, my mom booked my 70-something grandparents on flights to Dallas, where they'll stay with relatives. I reserved hotel rooms for my folks in Alabama in case they need them. My mom is a hard-core Barack Obama supporter who wants to hear him say at Denver's Invesco Field "We're going to rebuild New Orleans, at whatever cost, whatever it takes...
Obama's gambles illustrate a core fact about the man: his genuine self-confidence. He clearly believes that, where he has a chance to shape an outcome, things are going to be fine. The ball will drop through the hoop instead of clanging off the rim. It's an idea shared by many talented and driven people, and it holds true all the way up to the moment when they finally meet failure...