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...April 3, Vietnamese immigrant Jiverly Wong, 41, walked into an immigration-services center in Binghamton, N.Y., and opened fire, killing 13 people in the worst mass shooting in the U.S. since the 2007 Virginia Tech massacre. The following day, three Pittsburgh, Penn., police officers responding to a domestic disturbance were killed by 23-year-old Richard Poplawski. In both cases, the suspects were wearing body armor. Wong ultimately took his own life; police eventually took Poplawski into custody after a four-hour standoff, charging him with three counts of criminal homicide and nine counts of attempted homicide as well...
Several prominent bank analysts came out with statements yesterday saying that the largest U.S. financial firms would post more heavy losses and that their accounting methods would obscure the worst of it. George Soros, the grand old man of the hedge fund business, repeated his belief that the banks are insolvent. If he is right, earnings are irrelevant...
...zero, and that Citi is. Saying something is worth zero is too easy. Most analysts have to give a range of prices and reasons for their upper and lower targets for share value forecasts. Saying something is worth zero is cheating. It takes away any meaningful analysis of the worst case. Stock prices never trade in negative numbers. (See pictures of TIME's Wall Street covers...
...surprised that you rate boy as one of U2's four worst albums. It is an excellent album that many younger fans will probably continue to overlook based on articles like this one. If U2 released Boy today, critics would probably be fawning over the rebirth of a pop/rock giant rather than analyzing the band's ongoing decline. Jeff DeVito, BOUND BROOK...
...Italy's worst earthquake in nearly three decades struck early Monday in the central region of Abruzzo, killing at least 207 people and leaving tens of thousands homeless. As the death toll from the predawn quake rose throughout the day, the tragedy took a bitter twist as it emerged that a local seismologist had predicted a major tremor...