A rogue trader known as "the invisible man" gambled up to £60 billion in the world's biggest banking fraud disaster. The bank's bosses decided it had to cancel the bets immediately when the markets opened on Monday. ...
Since seeing Cloverfield, I have read a bunch of reviews and message board threads about the film. It appears that it's clearly going to be a love it/hate it movie.
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Gloria Steinem's Op-Ed in Tuesday's New York Times, Women Are Never Front-Runners, made me think. A lot. I would very much like to vote for a woman for president. I would very much like to vote for someone who is not white for president.
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The Apple rumor mill (primarily Apple Insider) has pegged July-August as the timeframe for new iMacs. The one thing that truly bugs me about the entire Mac lineup is the lack of a midrange computer without a monitor. Your choices are either the Mini or the Pro - i.e.
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The federal government recorded a $1.3 trillion loss last year — far more than the official $248 billion deficit — when corporate-style accounting standards are used, a USA TODAY analysis shows.
As if Attorney General Alberto Gonzales didn't have enough trouble, now comes word that, before coming to the Justice Department, Gonzales preyed on the infirm.
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Academy Award-winning filmmaker Michael Moore is under investigation by the U.S. Treasury Department for taking ailing Sept. 11 rescue workers to Cuba for a segment in his upcoming health-care documentary ''Sicko,'' The Associated Press has learned.
Let's review for a moment... - Paul Wolfowitz is hanging on by a thread at the World Bank - Parts of Kansas were obliterated by natural disaster over the weekend and the National Guard swooped into help - oh wait, right, they're in Iraq.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Democratic lawmakers voted on Wednesday to subpoena Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to testify about administration justifications for the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003.
The cave in which Jesus was buried has been found in Jerusalem, claim the makers of a new documentary film -- including a coffin containing his bones.
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This is one of the stranger politics/internet/sports crossover stories. Apparently Robert Gates was an avid poster at a Texas A&M football forum, which he is now leaving, for obvious reasons. Not nearly as juicy as some of the "other" politics/internet stories of this year...
A spate of new discoveries about the basic biology of cancer is pushing researchers toward an astonishing conclusion: For decades, efforts to cure the disease may have targeted the wrong cells.
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