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...hard not to root for a guy--even a filthy-rich guy--who loses his dream job by standing up for a colleague's wife. But veteran banking analyst Richard Bove of the brokerage firm Punk Ziegel says Dimon owed his big quarter to a billion dollars in onetime gains. "Apart from that, JPMorgan's results are just as bad as everybody else's," he says. He has similar concerns about Goldman Sachs. Bove's verdict: We're in the midst of a "systemic debt crisis" from which no one can emerge unscathed...
There's no such thing as the Mob, huh? Try telling that to small-business organization Confesercenti, which released a report alleging that the Mafia is Italy's "largest firm." "Mafia Inc," composed of Sicily's Cosa Nostra, Naples' Camorra, Calabria's 'Ndrangheta and Puglia's Sacra Corona Unita, brings in more revenue than the country's largest legal business--its government-owned energy company...
...firm began life in 1904, when Charles Rolls, an aristocratic automobile aficionado and dealership owner, joined forces with fledgling carmaker Henry Royce. Then and now, the company's cars were big, powerful, stately and silent. In 1931, Rolls bought out more sporty rival Bentley, and for decades the cars were stablemates, eventually becoming fairly indistinguishable from one another, though Bentleys were always slightly less expensive...
...exactly. Please. Both sides in this dopey doggy dispute need to get a little perspective, and so do the rest of us. Since DeGeneres's tele-meltdown, the story has become cable news fodder and the adoption agency owners say they've received death threats. But they're standing firm, despite the fact that they've broken the heart of the family's daughter, who looks like the kind of kid any pooch would love to greet every day at the school bus stop. It's not as if DeGeneres gave the dog to Michael Vick...
...move that further revealed the complications surrounding the digital upheaval, rival broadcaster ITV suffered on Thursday a huge embarrassment after a review by international auditing firm Deloitte found that almost 10 million phone and text message votes from viewers on interactive ITV programs such as The X Factor were never counted. ITV and other broadcasters say increased viewer interaction will be one of the primary benefits of digital television. ITV said it would cost $36 million to fix problems with interactive services on more than 60 of its television programs...