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UK change of heart on banking tax planBritish prime minister Gordon Brown rapidly backpedalled from his proposal for a financial transactions tax after a chorus of criticism of his plan set out in a speech to a meeting of global finance ministers ... |
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Cadbury expected to receive hostile bidThe board of Cadbury is preparing to meet on Monday amid expectations that Kraft will go hostile with its takeover offer. The US group will either formalise its original proposal of 300p in cash and 0.2589 new Kraft Foods shares per Cadbury share, or increase it slightly ... |
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Dahr Jamail: Where Will They Get the Troops? Preparing Undeployables for the Afghan FrontCross-posted with TomDispatch.com. As the Obama administration debates whether to send tens of thousands of extra troops to Afghanistan, an already overstretched military is increasingly struggling to meet its deployment numbers. Surprisingly, one place it seems to be targeting is military pe... |
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Richard Z. Chesnoff: ISRAEL'S ARABS - A CINEMATIC VOICE IN NEW YORKISRAEL'S ARABS - A CINEMATIC VOICE IN NEW YORK Few whirls of the Mideast maelstrom are more confusing than Israel's Arab population - those 1.7 million urban and rural Arabs whose forebears wisely chose to remain in the newborn State of Israel rather than flee and become Palestinian refugees.... |
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Jeffrey Wasserstrom: The German Wall That Fell - And the Chinese Regime That Didn'tHow is it that a Communist Party organized along Leninist lines remains in charge in Beijing so long after its counterparts in cities such as Budapest and Bucharest were toppled? Why hasn't there been a sequel to the Tiananmen Uprising, ending this time not in a massacre like that of June 4, 198... |
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Empty MySpace office blow for News CorpThe media group is paying more than $1m a month to rent an empty office complex in Los Angeles since scrapping an ambitious plan to house its digital businesses there ... |
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