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An inside look at the real reasons for the once-beloved chain’s demise
Continue Reading...The Big Bet Behind the Kindle Fire
As laptops decline, Barry Lam’s company is manufacturing Amazon’s Kindle Fire tablet
Continue Reading...SMU Football’s Second Coming
How one college football program bought its way back from two-plus decades of incompetence
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Which teams spent the least on wins, and/or won the most? We crunch the numbers and come up with some surprises
Continue Reading...Casablanca Tries to Build Its Brand
Seventy years after the film ‘Casablanca’, Morocco’s largest city strives to find an identity as it ponders an Olympics bid
Continue Reading...A Bond Offering from the Navajo Nation
The resource-rich tribe is raising money to stimulate growth and create jobs on its reservation in America’s Southwest
Continue Reading...Italy’s 7% Yield Sparks Invisible Bank Run
Italy’s highest bond yields since the birth of the euro are reverberating through the financial system of Europe’s biggest debt issuer, driving lenders to seek record amounts of central bank financing.
Continue Reading...Venizelos Says Greek Loan a Priority as Papademos Takes Control
Greek Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos said his priority is to ensure the payment of a sixth loan under a European Union-led bailout to avert financial collapse, hours after Prime Minister Lucas Papademos took charge as head of a new interim government.
Continue Reading...News Corp. Executives May Face Sanction on Parliament Testimony
Former News of the World editor Colin Myler and the newspaper’s former lawyer, Tom Crone, may face action over evidence they gave to Parliament should U.K. lawmakers decide they failed to tell the truth on phone hacking.
Continue Reading...Swallowing Austerity Turns Into Irish Way as Strikes Grip South
In a village in Cork in southern Ireland, about 50 farmers and business people meet on Sundays after mass to protest against taxpayer bailouts of bankers.
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