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...issue are a number of purported information leaks, which - if the allegations are proven true - fall into a truly special category of brazenness. For example: a Moody's bond-rating analyst sharing privileged information that the private-equity firm Blackstone was about to buy Hilton Hotels. A senior vice president at IBM handing over details of Sun Microsystems's financials, which he had access to only because IBM was contemplating buying Sun. A managing director of Intel passing along the company's revenue and profit numbers before they were publicly released and later asking his hedge-fund consort...
...Union envoy to the Holy See, Benedict chided those who deny the "Christian roots" of Europe. Said the Pope: "Europe will not truly be herself if she cannot keep the originality that made her great. When the church reminds Europe of its Christian roots, it is not looking for special status, [but] recalling the fact that the founding fathers of the European Union were inspired by Christianity...
...That was a big character one,” Harvard coach Jamie Clark said. “You had your special players, [Akpan] and Rogers, becoming workers and showing that they’re willing to do it…that was big for me—for the stars to put in the blue collar work...
...This year, we had the boathouse swarmed with Olympians and people from various national teams,” lightweight captain Martin Eiermann said. “It’s always a special atmosphere. We all came into the weekend being really excited...
Universities took special notice when, in his inaugural address, President Obama called on all citizens to commit to a cause greater than themselves. The president observed that the price of freedom is “a recognition, on the part of every American, that we have duties to ourselves, our nation, and the world; duties that we do not grudgingly accept but rather seize gladly...