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...tempered by concern about violence - mainly because of the crowd's expected size. Each summer, nearly 1 million people flock to one of the city's most popular festivals, the Taste of Chicago, in Grant Park. But last year's festival was marred by several shootings, at least one fatal, near Grant Park. This summer witnessed several shootings throughout the city, including one last weekend that saw seven people shot near a West Side nightclub. Just over a week ago, the country was riveted by the slaying of several members of the family of actress Jennifer Hudson in the Englewood...
...front of me in the press box just told me about Conner Kempe's near fatal kit-board accident off the coast of Jupiter...
Remember those defined-benefit programs through which companies promised a certain amount every month to retirees? The market crash may be dealing that already waning concept a final, fatal blow. A new report from Goldman Sachs' Global Markets Institute illustrates that massive equity losses have resulted in S&P 500 companies' pension funds, which had been overfunded at the start of the year, fading so fast that they are now underfunded as a group. Instead of holding 108% of the assets they were promising to provide to retirees, they now hold just 91% (and falling...
...White House's hope of reaching a peace accord between the Israelis and the Palestinians suffered a fatal blow on Sunday when Tzipi Livni, the Israeli foreign minister and leader of the governing Kadima party, informed President Shimon Peres that she was unable to stitch together a new ruling coalition...
...President Bush carried 11% of black voters nationally. After a GOP convention in which blacks accounted for just 36, or 1.5%, of the delegates - down from 6.7% four years ago - the Arizona Senator is not expected to capture more than 5% of the black vote. That could be fatal in states like Ohio, where Jones, the Cleveland radio host, observes, "I haven't seen any John McCain posters. None. He hasn't reached...