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...rale's retail network, which BNP covets, from investment banking activities, which interest Crédit Agricole. By tipping its hand, Mistral notes, BNP may be signaling to rivals now mobilizing in the wake of the debacle that it's about to launch a bid it had contemplated even before the Kerviel affair. Meanwhile, comments by French officials indicating the government would step in and prevent foreign "predators" from exploiting the Société Générale fiasco drew fire from European Union authorities. Mistral suggests that BNP's shot across the bow was a boon...
...President Bush's no-warrant eavesdropping on Americans since 9/11. In late January, the Senate Intelligence and Judiciary chairmen wrestled over whether the firms should get immunity from prosecution for whatever role they played. It's a fight that could get uglier soon if the House and Senate launch backroom negotiations for a final bill before the Presidents' Day recess on Feb. 18 as expected...
...Vote, No Voice Former Iowa congressman Jim Leach, who now heads Harvard's Institute of Politics, helped launch this site in December 2007. Like Rock The Vote, the site relies on virtual pledges from its visitors to vote in the upcoming election and get five friends to do the same, (offering raffles for iPods and tickets to The Colbert Report as further incentive...
...It’s best to launch a new campaign with permanent leadership,” Smith wrote in an e-mail yesterday...
...truce, the prime minister approved a major ground assault into southern Lebanon in which 34 Israeli soldiers died and few, if any, lasting gains were made on the battlefield. The report blamed the politicians and the top brass of "equivocation" which "hurt Israel" by dithering over whether to launch the ground attack or seek a political end the war. Nevertheless, the report stated: "The goals of the ground operation were legitimate." That was a great relief to Olmert...