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Moody’s sliced the credit ratings of a dozen British financial companies today, including two of the UK’s “Big Four” lenders, Lloyds and Royal Bank of Scotland, both of which were partially nationalized during the financial crisis. Moody’s explained that it “believes that the government is likely to continue to provide…

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Occupy Wall Street: Getting Back to Business After Clashes With Police

Zuccotti Park on Thursday night was as packed as I’ve seen it on a weekday since the movement began nearly three weeks ago. Twenty-four hours after their biggest march, in conjunction with several powerful unions, the Occupy Wall Street protesters resumed their process, part of deciding what’s next. On Wednesday afternoon, several thousand members of

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Yesterday Barack Obama officially broke George W. Bush’s record for the longest scandal-free streak by a president in the post-Watergate era—at least by one political scientist’s criteria. Dartmouth professor Brendan Nyhan ran a study earlier this year on presidential scandals, which he defines as “widespread elite perception of wrongdoing….

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As a drought continues to ravage Tuvalu , only a few days’ supply of fresh water remains on the tiny Pacific island nation—so Australia and New Zealand are bringing over a desalination plant. Air force planes from both countries are hauling the gear to rescue Tuvalu’s residents, who face a…

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Oregon Ducks Football

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Forza Motorsport 4

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Forza Motorsport 4

Type: Video Games Title: Forza Motorsport 4 See all customer reviews Product Description: Forza Motorsport, the highest rated racing franchise of this generation, makes its return to the race track in Fall 2011 with Forza Motorsport 4. Features: Genre-defining. Controller-based racing. The power and freedom of Kinect. Content from leading brands like Top Gear to create an automotive experience unlike anything before it. It has controller-based racing. It has the power and freedom of Kinect. Its genre-defining. See the details

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If you’re a News Corp employee and you suspect a colleague of underhanded activity—hacking phones or bribing cops, for example—there’s a phone number Rupert Murdoch would like you to call. A 24-hour “alertline” has been set up for workers in Murdoch’s media empire who want to report violations…

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Friday Flicks: Will ‘The Ides of March’ Result in Oscars Next February?

Grab some popcorn! NewsFeed’s Glen Levy brings you the movies you should check out (or avoid) this weekend. The Ides of March Tagline: Ambition Seduces. Power Corrupts. At this particular point in time, is there anything that George Clooney can’t turn his hand to? He saved lives as a doctor on ER, opened movies on

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Employers added 103,000 jobs in September, a modest burst of hiring after a sluggish summer, but the unemployment rate stayed at 9.1% for the third straight month. Nearly half of the gains last month occurred because 45,000 striking Verizon workers returned to their jobs. The private sector…

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Giffords Gives Medal To Husband

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