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Yesterday marked the first day students could dine in the club, but no students had made reservations as of mid-afternoon, according to a club receptionist.
At that point, pressure mounted from regulators, the Federal Reserve and Congress on the Financial Accounting Standards Board to loosen accounting rules so that the toxic assets' book value could be marked up to buttress the banks' balance sheets - conveniently raising the assets' potential sales price at the same time...
As the Harvard baseball team heads down to Providence to play a four-game weekend set against Brown, the squad knows that it controls its own destiny—just barely that is.The Crimson (10-22, 8-4 Ivy) currently sits three games behind first-place Dartmouth in the Ivy?...
In the Tijuana security services, officials welcome Obama for pledging to stand shoulder to shoulder against the drug gangs. Deputy Attorney General Salvador Ortiz says U.S. aid would be a valuable asset in fighting the gangs. He also says it would be useful to have U.S. agents work more closely...
The earthquake shook up more than the capital city. It exposed the corrupt political system and gave heart to a remarkably talented (if occasionally arrogant) set of technocrats. Forgiving the mid-1990s, when the peso had to be rescued by the Clinton Administration, the Mexican economy has shown great resilience...