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...Talks had been ongoing for months, but were hampered by Dresdner executives who knew that the merger could cost them their jobs. On the Dresdner management board, only CEO Herbert Walter backed the deal, and he will take a new job on the board of the new Commerzbank...
...Commerzbank and Allianz appeared to be moving closer to a deal, another obstacle emerged. The state-owned Chinese Development Bank signaled its interest buying Dresdner at a premium. Some Allianz shareholders, and Dresdner's insurgent executives, appear to have been pushing for a deal with CDB. But, according to German press reports, Allianz CEO Michael Dieckmann put out feelers in the German chancellery and found little sympathy for a deal with the Chinese...
...Whatever happens to the Gulf, however, there is no doubt that the McCain campaign will continue to use the aftermath as a way to demonstrate the candidate's superior leadership qualities. From the early primaries, McCain has run as a candidate best able to deal with a crisis, though the focus has mostly been on national security challenges. Now, in a circumstance at home he would never have chosen, he has a chance to deliver on that promise. (See photos of John McCain's Tumultuous Week here...
Well, here's the deal: small towns have their own value systems, and in this situation those values are a lot more valid than the dispassionate, pushy inquisitiveness that political journalism encourages...
...lived to stand across the kitchen table from me and his parents, looking fully healed just three months later, grinning at his dumb luck and wondering what comes next in life. "It makes you realize that a thing like a little teenage pregnancy isn't such a big deal," his mom said. "Bristol - and lots of other girl like her out there - are going to be just fine...