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...Rival MySpace has a similar policy blocking account access but has fewer restrictions on profile-viewing. (This inspired an entrepreneur to create MyDeathSpace.com, which started out aggregating profiles of the deceased and has since morphed into a ghoulish tabloid...
Some industry experts believe that returns from these investments could rival the huge profits pocketed by investors during the Government Resolution Trust Corp. bailout of the savings-and-loan debacle of the late 1980s and early '90s. Back then, vulture investors picked up distressed assets at pennies on the dollar, and returns often exceeded...
...became a cipher at his side, the high-born wife whose social ministrations at smoke-filled political sessions flattered her husband's supporters. Ninoy's popularity soon challenged Ferdinand Marcos, who had been elected President in 1965. And so, when Marcos assumed dictatorial power in 1972, he threw his rival into jail. Corazon then became her husband's instrument, smuggling messages out of prison and raising funds for the opposition. But as long as he lived, Cory was merely an extension of Ninoy...
...have failed in the peace process. It has weakened us.' MAHMOUD ABBAS, President of the Palestinian Authority, opening his Fatah movement's congress--its first in 20 years--by renewing his call for dialogue with rival Hamas...
...chord. With less than a week until Afghans go to the polls to vote for only the second time to choose a president, a pair of recent polls showed he had alternately 8% or 10% of voters surveyed last month, placing him third behind president Hamid Karzai and his rival, Abdullah, and ahead of Ashraf Ghani, the brainy former finance minister...