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Last November, Citizens Bank vacated its 1290 Mass. Ave. location for a new 12,000 square foot spot in the heart of the Square. Sovereign Bank...
...Square on Sunday, Pope Benedict XVI took his place as the spiritual leader of the world’s 1.1 billion Catholics. His young reign, however, has already shown embryonic symptoms of a perennial papal predisposition—the urge to involve the church in the temporal affairs of sovereign states...
...relationship between the U.S. military command and the new Iraqi leadership remains something of a gray area, given the outcome of the election. Right now there is no "status of forces" agreement covering the conduct of U.S. forces in a sovereign Iraq, and some leaders of the Shiite alliance have suggested they will press for such an agreement...
...grief," says Jerry Moberg, an attorney in Ephrada, WA who served as the lawyer for the Moses Lake School District after it experienced a high school massacre in 1996. "I know the press doesn't like it, but they have to respect the fact that they're covering a sovereign nation. I don't see anything wrong with what the tribe is doing...
...Taiwan in recent years have pushed Asian bosses to accept more outside influence by giving shareholders more rights and dismantling restrictions on foreign investment. Change will not come overnight. At the annual shareholders meeting of oil company SK Corp. in Seoul on March 11, some shareholders, led by Sovereign Asset Management, failed to oust chairman Chey Tae Won from the board, even though he was convicted in 2003 of accounting and securities fraud. Sovereign CEO James Fitter called the decision "a missed opportunity for shareholders to place the most competent and ethical leadership" at SK. That opportunity is likely...