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...wouldn't be wise for me to say since I'm promoting a new album. But I really do like the fake songs a lot, some of them rival what's on the record. It's just that the ones on the record are the ones the promotion beast is concentrating...
Even for a proud old bank like Belgo-Dutch giant Fortis, with nearly 300-year-old roots and Catherine the Great among its historic clients, playing a role in last fall's $100 billion takeover of Dutch rival ABN Amro was a big moment. In the largest financial services deal ever signed, Fortis - part of a consortium alongside the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) and Spain's Santander - put up $34 billion in return for ABN's Dutch banking business, among other assets...
...market to lean on, Santander side-stepped the toxic assets caught up in the collapse of the U.S. sub-prime mortgage market. Enjoying "good growth at home, they were never in the need of chasing growth in these kind of exotic instruments," says Ramirez. Santander's strategy - mirrored at rival Spanish lenders - owes much to the country's regulators. The Bank of Spain, which scrutinizes lenders in the country, has discouraged banks from setting up the kind of off-balance sheet vehicles that tripped up rival international lenders...
...pasty and weary Sen. McCain ground out a response to one of Jim Lehrer’s probing questions, that Obama seemed to be filming a future episode of The West Wing in the background: smiling genuinely and looking with a true statesman’s curiosity at his rival. You half-expected the Democrat to start juggling chairs or audience members while the dollop of cottage cheese from Sedona stumbled through “Ahmadinejad...
...most part, the team was able to play at a normal pace. “The conditions were surprising, it just drizzled in the second half,” Leone said. “We were able to play fine.” Harvard continues its Ivy slate against rival Yale next Saturday at Ohiri Field. —Staff writer Walter E. Howell can be reached at wehowell@fas.harvard.edu...