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...rain wasn't the only dampening force on the normally raucous Golden Globes Awards on Sunday night at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles. The specter of the ever rising body count in Haiti hung over the festivities like a rare and dark Southern California cloud...
Santander would rather be profitable than interesting. Santander's U.K. profits for the first half of 2009 were up 33% from the year before, if you don't count acquisitions, and almost 63% if you do. It remains to be seen if Santander can work similar magic at Sovereign. Inciarte says cost-to-income at the U.S. bank has already fallen from 65% to 57%, but that getting down to 40% "will take us quite a while." (See pictures of the Federal Reserve...
...closet," he says. "It shows that the media doesn't really know how to handle gay politicians." Perhaps. But only in Iceland could overlooking the Prime Minister's sexual orientation be taken as a slight. In many other parts of the world, that would count as a victory. - With reporting by Stephanie Kirchner / Berlin and Gaëlle Faure and Tara Kelly / London
...Donato said. “I wasn’t so concerned with the shot total…They threw a lot of pucks, a lot of long shots, but I think we’re well aware that the scoreboard is different from the shot [count...
...Preparations, meanwhile, are under way to hold the country's first automated elections. Some 50 million voters will elect a new President, nearly 300 lawmakers and 17,500 local government officials. Voters hope a swift and transparent electronic vote count will replace the arduous manual tally that has traditionally lasted several weeks and offered considerable scope for cheating. "We may be able to modernize the way we vote ... but can we really claim progress if some of us still resort to the Stone Age practice of just bludgeoning opponents," presidential candidate Manuel Villar told reporters. Over the past three weeks...