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...week is sure to be volatile, even as our captains of industry try their best to keep the faith. The CEOs of Bank of America and Merrill Lynch held a joint press conference to discuss in upbeat tones B of A's planned takeover of Merrill, while Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson held a press conference to tell Americans they should remain confident in the "soundness and resilience in the American financial system...
...West Point and has two masters degrees: from North Carolina State University - where he studied nuclear effects engineering - and the Naval War College - where he studied national security and strategy. He was in Iraq during served in Desert Storm and is a former assistant to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. His son, Tony, also served in Iraq and lost an arm when he was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade. (See Iraq Photos Here.) (View a brief history of the Iraq War here...
...Earlier on Thursday, Chávez had welcomed two long-range Russian bombers to Venezuela for training exercises, which will be followed in November by joint naval maneuvers with Russian warships in Venezuelan waters. Clearly Chávez is rattling a saber at Washington, but the more urgent question is whether U.S.-Venezuelan relations are at a breaking point. Chávez had been railing at Duddy in the media because of the ambassador's recent remarks suggesting that drug traffickers were finding it easier to use Venezuela as a transshipment point. But high-level sources inside Miraflores, the Caracas...
...support the election of another adversarial government in Washington in November." But most analysts agree that Chávez needs the U.S. market just as much as the U.S. needs his oil - a codependency that will deter either side from allowing the latest diplomatic drama, or Venezuela's joint military exercises with Russia, to sever bilateral relations...
...luck: The wallet was found by an honest woman, who delivered it, with its contents intact, to a police station. Unfortunately for the young rikishi, as sumo wrestlers are known, the contents of his wallet included not only money and his alien registration card, but also a joint containing 0.368 grams of marijuana. On August 18, Wakanoho was arrested, and a search of his residence turned up a marijuana pipe. The sumo fraternity was scandalized by the first-ever arrest of one of its high-ranking number, and the 20-year-old Russian was banned for life from the sport...