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...Copies sold of British band Arctic Monkeys' debut album in its first week of release, making it the fastest-selling first album in British history
...EISL), which can now grab a share of the league title with a win next weekend against Penn. “It feels really good to win Harvard-Yale-Princeton,” co-captain Bill Cocks said. “It’s always one of the fastest meets of the year, and everyone gets really into it. After our loss to Columbia earlier in the year, we wanted to make sure that we were still at the top of the league. This meet proved that we’re still a good team, and it was even...
...Congress have made a mockery of claims for clean government. The U.N. is struggling to recover from its own high-level corruption scandal relating to the oil-for-food program in prewar Iraq. And, at a time when stock markets are booming, the global economy is growing at its fastest clip in three decades and chief executives are cutting themselves huge paychecks, ordinary people the world over have cause to complain about being locked out of the party. "The top of the house shouldn't continue to award itself when the folks on the lower end of the ladder suffer...
Today history is going full circle. The London-based megabank--the world's second largest bank by market value in mid-January--is returning to its roots. China, the world's fastest-growing economy, is the hottest market in global finance, sending international banks on a mad scramble for acquisitions and customers...
...time when stock markets are booming, the global economy is growing at its fastest clip in three decades and chief executives are cutting themselves huge paychecks, ordinary people the world over have cause to complain about being locked out of the party. "The top of the house shouldn't continue to award itself when the folks on the lower end of the ladder suffer," says C. William Jones, a retired telephone-company worker in Easton, Md., who was so incensed that Verizon cut his pension and health-care benefits that he helped start a protest group called the Association...