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...them out for its fall 2009 collection. (Of course it will.) The Obamas paid for all the clothes, J. Crew insists, and they did not guarantee that they would wear the company's outfits for the Inaugural events. J. Crew found out about their fashion choices along with the rest of the world. (See pictures of Sasha and Malia Obama at the Inauguration...
...know the rest of that story. Citi is now on life support, owing its continued survival to $45 billion--so far--in federal aid. Its beleaguered top-management team is trying to undo most of the 1998 merger with Travelers. And the new Obama Administration is faced with the somewhat conflicting priorities of trying to avert a depression, nurse Citi and other banks back to health and prevent a repeat of the excesses that led to today's troubles--all while taking care that the U.S. government doesn't dig its own financial grave in the process...
Fiat, which began a remarkable turnaround with the whopping cash payout from GM in 2005, is also struggling again, along with the rest of the auto industry, as car sales plummet amid a deepening economic crisis. Fiat has been itching to get its stylishly economic models on the market in the U.S., and the deal with Chrysler can be seen as part of a series of "strategic partnerships" it has sealed with other automakers in recent years, including one with Tata motors and a deal to build diesel engines with Daimler-Chrysler, before the breakup last year of that German...
Some Presidents were content to retire from public life by the end of their terms. Millard Fillmore spent the rest of his days in quiet anonymity (as he had spent his time in the White House, detractors say). Calvin Coolidge did little better. Eisenhower golfed (hole-in-one at the age of 77!) and LBJ hung out with his grandchildren. Others, however, found the strain of high office to be too much. James K. Polk died three months after leaving the White House. Franklin Pierce, whose 11-year-old son had been killed in a train accident just weeks before...
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