Alan Bennett Was Right About Getting Into Oxford Coaches Show
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Jan. 7 (Bloomberg) — James Uffindell, wearing a pinstriped
suit and walkie-talkie headset, races along the corridors of an
18th-century manor outside Oxford, England, as he presides over
an October weekend retreat for 175 ambitious teenagers.
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Corzine Calls for Debt Reduction Spending Freeze (Update4)
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Jan. 8 (Bloomberg) — New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine
presented lawmakers with a proposal for fixing government
finances, giving them two months to adopt his plan or come up
with one of their own.
Corzine [...]
Zapatero Calls Election as Economic Growth Slows (Update3)
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Jan. 14 (Bloomberg) — Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis
Rodriguez Zapatero today set national elections for March 9,
triggering a campaign likely to focus on the end of a decade-
long economic boom and renewed separatist violence.
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Zapatero to Call Vote Amid Slowing Economy Separatist Violence
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Jan. 14 (Bloomberg) — Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis
Rodriguez Zapatero plans to call for a March 9 election today,
triggering a campaign likely to focus on the end of a decade-long
economic boom and renewed separatist violence.
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Branson Plans to Set Up CleanEnergy Company in China (Update1)
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Jan. 18 (Bloomberg) — Richard Branson plans to establish
a company in China to help the worlds biggest emitter of
climate-altering gases develop clean energy and cut emissions.
“We plan to invest quite heavily [...]
Harlem#39;s Apollo Enlists CEOs to Raise 44.5 Million (Update1)
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Jan. 17 (Bloomberg) — The Apollo Theater has launched a
campaign to raise $44.5 million needed to complete a nine-year
renovation of the famed Harlem venue begun in 2001.
When complete in 2010, the [...]
Spurned by Feds Meritage Wineries Get Respect for Their Blends
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Jan. 22 (Bloomberg) — California winemakers once scoffed at
the idea of blending their big, tannic cabernet sauvignons with
less prestigious grapes. Back in the 1970s and 1980s, heavily
oaked “killer cabs that could “blow your doors off were
routine, and the California style was built on [...]
Bernanke#39;s Schools in `Corridor of Shame#39; Roil Obama (Update2)
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Jan. 24 (Bloomberg) — Ben Bernankes public school
education in Dillon, South Carolina, was his steppingstone to
Harvard University. Today, the schools he attended are being
cited by Barack Obama as symbols of how America has neglected
its poor.
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Harvard Yale Quizzed About Endowment Spending Costs (Update1)
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Jan. 25 (Bloomberg) — Harvard, Yale and 134 other schools
were asked to provide information about their endowment spending
to the U.S. Senate Finance Committee, whose leaders say the funds
should be used to make college more affordable.
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Sick Swedish Kids Wait for Care Spurring Parents to Go Private
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Jan. 25 (Bloomberg) — Jorun Lindell got fed up with Swedish
health care the day her son Harald waited four hours to be treated
at a Stockholm emergency ward. His knees and ankles were swollen
“like soccer balls.
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