Law:
Law firms in the Great Recession: looking for change in all the wrong places
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New lawyer has three part-time jobs, illustrating stat: 80% of new jobs are part-time
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Dentons, MoFo, Cravath, Skadden, Katten: Business of Law
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How DLA Piper became the highest-grossing firm in only 9 years
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DLA Piper Asia Pacific partner departures continue
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Rejection Letters of the Day: When They REALLY Don’t Want You
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UK top 20 squeeze equity ranks as PEP pressure drives prudence
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Orrick's Big-League Push
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Predicting Lateral Leaps: When Do Partners Move — And Why?
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Some law schools report increasing enrollment, citing low tuition and attractive financial aid
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Laptops Found More Likely to Distract 2Ls and 3Ls in Class
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I Hope All Law School Deans Are Begging Their Alumni Like This
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With All Due Respect, Mr. President
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The Private Law Schools With The ‘Best Value’ (2013)
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11th Circuit Rules Says Helping Pro Se Litigant Fill Out Bankruptcy Petition Not 'Ghost Writing'
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11th Cir. slams university and lawyers, upholds $1M for workers who say black supervisor used N-word --- Jury Rules That Black People Shouldn’t Say The N-Word Either
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This Guy Passed the Bar And May Not Get Admitted Over Something He Did When He Was 17 Months Old
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Things You Can Do With A Law Degree: Part-Time Tree Trimmer
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The Bush Doctrine (An "Imminent" Threat) Raised As Defense For Murdering Threatening Neighbors
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Govt to declassify some secret court opinions --- The NSA Has Figured Out How To Access Some Of The Most Private Data On The Internet --- Patriot Act Author: The NSA Is Actively Violating The Law
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Attorney Charged With Confidentiality Breach In Response To Unfavorable AVVO Review
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George Zimmerman's Wife Has Reportedly Filed For Divorce
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Top Calif court skeptical about undocumented law grad’s right to be licensed to practice
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Lawyer On Kids At Home For An Extra Week: "This is not my problem"
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When Harvard Met Sally: N-gram Analysis of the New York Times Weddings Section
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Absent federal worker who said he was busy at CIA is charged with $900K salary theft
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Man accused of scamming attorneys out of $70M gets over eight years in prison
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Brooklyn Teen Dies After Being Scalped By His Toy Helicopter
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How To Survive Life In Solitary Confinement
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Bank robbery ‘tipster’ becomes the suspect and gets 30 years for the crime
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Say What?!
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Judges:
U.S. Charges Former DeKalb Judge With Wire Fraud In Scheme
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Judge Cebull review over racist email goes to national panel
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Wall Street:
U.S. Stock -Index Futures Little Changed Before Jobs Data
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Markets Are At A Standstill As The World Waits For The Jobs Report
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Stocks Close Slightly Higher
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Layoffs:
US Planned Layoffs Jump in August
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US Unemployment Still 7.4%
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3 Atlantic City casinos lay off 315 employees
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Kodak employees optimistic after meeting
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Hundreds protest against Wal-Mart in 15 cities
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National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Gambling:
Revel, Trump laying off workers in Atlantic City
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Non-Profits:
Dance New Amsterdam Wins Temporary Reprieve
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Media:
GateHouse Media headed for Ch. 11, then new co.
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Mass Torts:
Third Circuit Rejects 3 More Appeals of W.R. Grace’s Reorganization Plan
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Health Care:
Fla. brain injury hospital emerges from bankruptcy
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Fairmont General Hospital's bankruptcy saga
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Obamacare Insurance Costs Affordable, Kaiser Survey Finds --- Premiums Will Be Cheaper Than Expected, Study Finds --- What will your Obamacare premium be? Numbers are in for 17 states
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Furniture:
Is GE pulling financing for Furniture Brands dealer inventory?
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Museums:
Slavery Museum considering bankruptcy to stop sale of its property
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Autos:
Hell and Back Is Route to Success for Mercedes to Chevy
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Ford board open to earlier exit for CEO Mulally - sources
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Car electronics maker Edge Products files for bankruptcy
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Cities With the Most Reckless Drivers
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Economy:
Private employers added 176,000 jobs in August
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Job growth slows, but Fed taper still in cards
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Weekly jobless claims drop by 9000
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US factory orders drop 2.4 percent in July
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Fed's Williams Has 'Open Mind' About Taper Timing
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Summers's Fed Put Beats Bernanke's for Potency --- Battle over Fed: Summers' opponents seek to sway Obama --- Summers faces 'no' votes from Democrats --- Fed nomination prospects bring new focus on Summers's regulation history --- Here's how Obama will defend Summers as Fed pick --- Have Markets Priced-In Summers as Fed Chairman? --- Don't Believe What Larry Summers Says
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Turnover at Federal Reserve adds uncertainty to interest rate and QE3 promises
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Goldman Sachs: Bullish Forecast For Friday's Jobs Report
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3 Parts Of The Economy Are Seeing 'Record' Growth
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US Debt Clock
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Economic Indicators Dashboard
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Real Estate:
Mortgage rates continue to creep up as economy heals
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30 Year Mortgages Hit 4.57%
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Rates Come Down On Jumbo Mortgage Loans
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Senator Warren Investigates False Claims Submitted to the FHA
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Municipalities:
Detroit Result of Years of Benign Neglect: Miller
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A radical idea: Dissolve the City of Detroit
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Report: Detroit Pension Funds Misspent
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Judge in Open Meetings Act lawsuit over Detroit EM appointment dismisses most claims, finds two violations
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Red Wings arena deal faces critics
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Detroit Bankruptcy and the Tactful Use of State Ordered Declaratory Relief in Federal Proceedings
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Could Kevyn Orr Use DIA Art As Collateral For Turnaround Loan? --- Parsing Kevyn Orr's words about the DIA
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Hamtramck EM ousts officials, slashes council pay
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Big projects in El Paso affected by Detroit bankruptcy
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Bankruptcy Not An Option In Allen Park
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Ports balk at records request
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Best and Worst States 5 Years After Crash
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Aviation:
How American Airlines could bail out of the US Airways merger -- and why it might want to
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AMR -US Airways Suit to Block Merger Joined by Michigan
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AMR Corporation (AAMRQ.PK): Airline Pricing Power And The DOJ's Case
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United bringing 600 furloughed pilots back to work
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The TSA Is Going To Let A Lot More People Keep Their Shoes On At Security
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Retailing:
Sluggish August Retail Sales Seen Boding Ill for Holiday Season
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Banking:
A Banking Bankruptcy That Takes a Different Path
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Whose Refund? Eleventh Circuit Muddies the Law on Ownership of Bank Tax Refunds in Bankruptcy
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Celebs:
Report: Sapp's sneaker collection fetches $6390 at bankruptcy auction
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Amanda Bynes Bankrupt After Hospital Bill?
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Floyd Mayweather Jr. Keeps His Money In One Bank Account With $123 Million In It
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Going Bankrupt At Age 25 Changed Tommy Hilfiger's Life--For The Better
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Charts Expose How Badly NFL Players Get Paid
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JC Penney Dumps Martha Stewart
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Banking:
Simmons First in Arkansas Bids on Troubled Bank
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Education:
The 12 American Universities That Produce The Most CEOs
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Religion:
Milwaukee archdiocesan lawyers rap bid to remove judge in bankruptcy case
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Former Farmington priest allegedly sexually abused children, covered up abuse for other priests
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Daughter: Televangelist Schuller has cancer
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Student Debt:
Is It Really Smart To Exit The Student Loan Business?
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Entrepreneurs:
The 13 Biggest Failures From Famous Entrepreneurs And What They've Learned From Them
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Food/Beverage:
Bank of Maine sues former grocer cooperative for $2.5 million
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Telecoms:
IBahn Seeks Bankruptcy Citing Loss of Contracts, Litigation --- IBahn Seeks Bankruptcy After Loss of Marriott Contracts
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Fraud:
SAC Insider Case Second Tipper Said to Be N.J. Doctor
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Brokers:
Imprisoned Peregrine Founder Could Face More Questioning
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New Bankruptcy Opinions
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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 (24 new filings today)
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Recent Ch. 11 Adversary Proceeding Filings (40 new filings today)
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Bankruptcy Code - Prior BK Codes - Bankruptcy Rules
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UCLA-LoPucki Bankruptcy Research Database
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Bankruptcy Jobs:
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Seminars - (Contact us to list your seminar)
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Bankruptcy Statistics:
New consumer bankruptcies in August down 3% from July
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The Next Wave: Are We Facing Another Round of Big Chapter 11 Bankruptcies?
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Interactive Bankruptcy Statistics Map
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Miscellaneous:
Bill On Bankruptcy
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Personal Bankruptcy:
Law firm that filled in petition blanks wasn't ghostwriting, 11th Circuit says
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UST:
Bankruptcy Court in New Mexico Says U.S. Trustee Is “Never, Ever, Ever, Getting … Together” with Debtor’s Counsel
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Discharge:
Mother's Debt to Abused Child Not Dischargeable in Bankruptcy
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Jurisdiction:
Seventh Circuit Addresses Questions Left Open by 'Stern v. Marshall'
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Recent Pleadings:
Creditors , Teamsters Pan Allied Sale
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AMR Says Dewey Fee App Should Be Cut By $600K - Unnecessary Fees By Bailing Partner, Use Of Banned First-Year Lawyers
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BoNYY Slams Cengage Committee's Motion To Prosecute Claims - Unsupported, speculative conflict accusations
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Lehman:
Lehman Brothers Bankruptcy Five Years On
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5 Years Later, the Lessons From Lehman
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Electricity:
Multitude of woes drive WV's cleanest coal-burning power plant to bankruptcy
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Sovereigns:
Pari Passu Wishful Thinking (Settlement Thought for the Day)
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Argentina's Senate approves reopened debt swap in goodwill gesture
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Argentina: Redefining The Gears Of Default And Restructure
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The vultures’ victory
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UK:
Grant Thornton advises on ground-breaking Kodak pension scheme deal
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Bank of England Keeps Interest at 0.5%
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Reporter tries to cook egg with London's 'deathray' building - gives up when his hair starts to catch fire
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Squire Sanders Names Bankruptcy Partner As New Office Managing Partner in Leeds
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Printing firm sold out of administration
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Small firms believe economy not in recovery
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Black day as ‘King Coal’ mining mogul Richard Budge declared bankrupt
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EU:
ECB's Draghi cautious about eurozone recovery
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Cyprus parliament narrowly approves bailout condition --- Cyprus bailout imminent after tumultuous vote
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Euribor rate steady as ECB guidance struggles to gain traction
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PIIGS:
Berlusconi Has Privately Recorded A Mysterious Video In Preparation For The Destruction Of The Italian Government
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Canada:
Quebec blast railroad could be sold by year's end
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Windsor sheds bankruptcy crown
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Germany:
German exports record unexpected fall in July
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Study Warns of Germany Depopulation Trend
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Brazil:
Batista Turns to Creditors in Bid to Avoid Bankruptcy
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OGX may present restructuring plan to bondholders on Tuesday
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Japan:
It's Taboo To Fire People In Japan — So They're Sent To Boredom Rooms Instead
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MENA:
How much a military strike in Syria would probably cost --- If Russia Is Right About Syria, Then Intervention Is Even More Necessary --- Army Officer: At Least I Know Why We're Bombing Syria --- G20 Summit: America vs. the World on Syria --- The White House's Syria Secrets
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The Return of Egypt's Police State
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