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Law:
Howrey Loses 11 Lawyers to Morgan Lewis
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Winston moves to sign Howrey partners as tie-up talks collapse
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Howrey Chairman Presses Partners to Act on Winston Offers
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Akin Gump posts PEP of $1.6m on back of small revenue rise
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Staffers Working 24/7 at Mayer Brown During the Blizzard
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Could Austerity Be a Word of the Past for Big Law?
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Chadbourne Names New Bankruptcy Counsel
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Reprimand Not Imposed On Bankruptcy Lawyer For Possible Knowing Misappropriation
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DLA Piper puts clients at center of new three-year strategy
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Fire That General Counsel! When a Top Lawyer Upsets the Wrong Republican
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Chevron Files RICO Suit Against Plaintiffs Lawyers in Ecuador Pollution Case
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Greed Atop The Pyramids
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British BigLaw Firm A&O Plans to Shift Back-Office & Legal Support Workers to Distant Location
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The Great Recession led to a ten-year low in lateral partner moves
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Selling Foreclosure Firm’s Back Office Earned $60M for Attorney David Stern
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Postcards From Prison
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Sought in Murder Manhunt, Armed Georgia Lawyer Flees into Woods, Commits Suicide
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Cobell Attorneys Seek $223 Million
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Colo. Secty of State Changes Mind, Won’t Moonlight at Former Law Firm After All
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Law School Grading Controversies — at Chicago, Cornell, and Buffalo
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2L Glad He’s No Longer a ‘Pariah’ After Syracuse Drops Probe of Satirical Blog
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Can This Marriage Be Saved? Two Spouses, Both Lawyers, Each Hate Practicing. What to Do?
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Lawyer Sanctioned for Leaking Name of Witness in High-Profile Litigation
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Oxford Grad Blames UK Law School for Failing NY Bar Exam, Sues for $162K
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Cardozo Students Need Walking Instructions
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CPA's Stellar Law School Career Screeches to a Halt as St. John's Rescinds His Admission
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Lawyers With Gadgets: Resistance Is Futile
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Ex-Clifford Chance secretary receives 15-month jail sentence for expenses fraud
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Do Not Buy This For Any Lady At Your Office
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Leave the Labels for Lawyering; Be Unbiased in Love
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"I don't care if I lose my license. I don't care if I lose my life."
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Lawyer: "I Communicate With Spirits"
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Spitball-Equivalent Incident Gets Boy, 14, Expelled From High School and Criminally Charged
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Judges:
Obama's Lawyer Previews New Push to Confirm Judges - The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times
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State Supreme Court justice received $99K in gifts from lawyer
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Snow Holiday to Extend Through Thursday at Cook County Courts After Chicago Blizzard
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At the Supreme Court, could legal precedent be less important than popular opinion?
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Judge cannot display 10 Commandments
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Wall Street:
Futures see little change on Wall Street open
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European shares set to slip as rally loses steam
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Wall Street Compensation Hits Record High
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Why Wall St. Paychecks Dwarf Ours
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Beware the WSJ’s pay statistics
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Gender Gap on Wall Street--Do Top Women Bankers Care?
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Supermodels who have a thing for Wall Street guys
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Layoffs:
Private Sector Jobs Jump 187,000
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National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Aviation:
Flight Cancellations Top 5,000 for Second Day
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"Do not try to physically attack customers. Many of them will be older people"
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Autos:
S&P Upgrades General Motors
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IP:
Bidders Emerge for Nortel Patents
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Golf:
Appletree Golf Course goes for $1.45 million in foreclosure
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Fraud:
Guy de Chimay, who claimed ties to Belgian royalty, pleads guilty to Ponzi
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Lawyers: Sterling Defendants Don't Owe Madoff Trustee Money
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How Much Damage Has Bernie Madoff Done the Mets?
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Judge sends $84 million message
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'Ill-gotten' Stanford gains could come back to haunt ECB as creditors seek redress
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Rothstein properties to be sold by feds
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Rochester bank pays price for bad bets
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Merrill Lynch and Bank of America Say They Were Rolled for $90 Million in L.A.
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Denny Hecker asks judge for 8 years - and more
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Economy:
Only 26% of Americans Trust Financial System
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43 Million Use Food Stamps
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Wealth gap widens between super rich and rest
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S&P says no plans to cut US rating in medium term
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Interest on Natl. Debt About to Skyrocket
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5 Economic Changes that Will Raise Food Bills
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Economic Stress Map
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Economy Tracker Map
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US Debt Clock
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Bailout Recipients
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Real Estate:
Foreclosed Homeowners Go to Court on Their Own
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Home prices showing life in 2011
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Shadow inventory to push foreclosures to new heights
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Estimated 1.76 million mortgages modified last year
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DBRS finds half of mortgage modifications redefault
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Govt’s Loan Mod Program Crippled by Lax Oversight and Deference to Banks
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How Many Folks Have “Lost Their Homes” to Foreclosure/Short Sales/DILs?
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US Sen. Hagan 'Very Concerned' About Mortgage Rules
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Proposed class action targets BofA on foreclosures
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Bad housing advice of the day, Philly edition
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America’s Kitchen and Bath Dealers Optimistic
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Recession's Toll on Low Income Renters
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Out-of-state real estate owners spark complaints from Detroit area activists
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Phoenix distressed home sales rise, but market remains tepid
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Hawaii house advances Mortgage Foreclosure
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Manhattan condo prices hit 2010 peak in November
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One Madison Developer Uses Company Card for Miley Cyrus Tickets
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Two former Countrywide executives settle California lawsuit for $6.5 million
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Money from Countrywide settlement to aid homeowners
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Call for balancing mortgage servicer fee by loan performance
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CMBS takes a beating as delinquencies reach record high
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MIT Index Shows Gains for Commercial Property Prices
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Investment in CRE expected to grow 25% worldwide in 2011
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Commercial Real Estate Collapse Already Here
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Super Bowl Winners Born of Hard Work, Office Vacancy
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Mass Torts:
Judge finds Feinberg not independent of BP
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BP Gulf of Mexico oil spill fund 'underpaying victims'
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Kenneth Feinberg: Most oil spill victims to get twice their 2010 losses
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BP's Promises Still Not Kept
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Gulf coast recovery expected in 2012
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Kenneth Feinberg Sees a Quick Recovery for the Gulf—So Get Your Money Now
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Commission faults agency, industry, in gulf spill
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Oil spill triggers BP's first annual loss in nearly 20 years
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Oil/Gas:
Brent crude tops $103 as Egypt violence escalates
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Hotels:
Biltmore owners file bankruptcy
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Hotel Mead to stay open after foreclosure
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Hard Rock Hotel files lawsuit over lender's foreclosure
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Pittsburg: Work at Downtown hotel delayed again
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Banking:
FDIC distressed assets a hot buy for leveraged investors
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The Ruinous Fiscal Impact of Big Banks
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Derivatives:
SEC Proposes Swap Trading Facilities
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Municipalities:
Christie Says 'Sue Me' as Pensioners Challenge Cuts
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Cuomo's NY budget calls for spending cuts, layoffs
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Bell city official threatens to cut budget if council doesn't meet
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Jefferson County officials meet with sewer debt creditors
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A Long Island tax cut backfires on the Tea Party
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Bloomberg Seeks a Sweeping Overhaul of City’s Pensions
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Snow Day? Bloomberg Tells City Workers to Disobey
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Vallejo settles with one of its largest creditors
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Moody's Begins Treating Pension Liabilities like Bond Debt
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Retailing:
What A Borders Bankruptcy Could Mean For Barnes & Noble Investors
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Tax:
The 16 Profitable Companies That Pay Almost Nothing In Taxes
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Payroll Services:
Raid of Sommet execs' home cut short with bankruptcy filing
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Bankruptcy Court Web/Pacer Site Directory
Chapter 7, 12 & 13 Private Trustee Locator
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Recent Ch. 11 Filings
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Bankruptcy Code - Prior BK Codes - Bankruptcy Rules
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Bankruptcy Jobs:
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Miscellaneous:
Southwest Georgia Ethanol, Townsends, Charlie Browns: Bankruptcy
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Insurance:
Eighth Circuit emphasizes importance of reading D&O
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Sales:
Senior Lenders “Shocked” By Sale Order Holding Second Liens Have Standing to Oppose Sale
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Bankruptcy Statistics:
Interactive Bankruptcy Statistics Map
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Museums:
Defaulting Folk Art Museum Says It Won't Sell Works to Pay Debt
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Religion:
Del. diocese settles with abuse claimants for $77M
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Foreclosure crisis hitting some churches
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Corporate Reform:
White House's Warren Backs Consistent, Not Burdensome, Rules
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CFPB will push for clearer language
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Warren Seeks to Promote Consumer Bureau Benefits
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Agencies tell Congress they need money
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S.E.C. Hurt by Disarray in Its Books
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S.E.C. Proposes Rules on Derivative Prices
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UK:
UK Service Industries Return to 'Pre-Snow Growth'
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Growing North/South divide fuels fears of a “two-speed recovery”
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2011 will see the highest levels of personal insolvency on record
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Official 2010 Corporate Insolvency statistics won’t reflect pain of UK businesses
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Winding up Petition (Dismissals) - 2 February 2011
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Appointment of Administrators - 2 February 2011
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EU:
Trichet Fights to Curb Pay Pressures as Inflation Accelerates
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To Cement Euro Rescue, Merkel Seeks Unity in E.U.
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EU's Consumers Going Into Their Shells
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Ireland:
S&P Downgrades Ireland's Debt Rating
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'Tribune' In Receivership After IN&M Pulls Out
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Debt-Burdened Ireland Faces Feb. 25 Election Date
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Canada:
Business failures hit new low as economy rebounds
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Supreme Court Rules that GST Debt is Unsecured Under CCAA
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Insolvency and Restructuring, 2011
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Egypt:
Military steps in between Mubarak foes, supporters
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Fresh violence feared in Egypt
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The White House Is Furious At Mubarak, And Is Demanding The Transition Begin Right Now
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ElBaradei's Role Is Cast in Doubt
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Battered protesters remain after deadly Egypt clashes
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Mubarak Reveals a Brutal Plan to Hold Power
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A landscape lies in tatters, but a movement stands its ground
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Watching Thugs With Razors and Clubs at Tahrir Sq.
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Mubarak Loyalists Target Foreign Journalists
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CNN's Anderson Cooper Attacked in Egypt
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Amanpour: Angry mob surrounded us, shouting they hate America
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Middle East:
Syrians Call for "Day of Rage" Protests
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Turmoil Hits Yemen
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Iceland:
Kaupthing Committee Rejects $28.5 Billion in Creditor
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Spain:
Spanish Bank Tackles Toxic Assets
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Portugal:
Portugal’s Borrowing Costs Drop Amid Optimism About Debt Crisis
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Russia:
Police Search Deutsche Bank Office in Russia
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