Posted in Bear Stearns, JPMorgan on March 17, 2008 | No Comments »
PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - Shares of Bear Stearns Co Inc traded above the takeover price offered by JP Morgan Chase & Co as investors bet a new suitor may emerge, but such optimism could be pure folly, bankers and analysts said on Monday.
Bear Stearns’s stock traded at $4.71 in afternoon trading on the New York Stock [...]
Posted in CIA, Democracy, Tibet, US on March 17, 2008 | No Comments »
Kenneth Conboy and James Morrison
320 pages, 24 photographs, 9 maps, 6-1/8 x 9-1/4
Modern War Studies
Cloth ISBN 978-0-7006-1159-1, $34.95
Kenneth Conboy and James Morrison reveal how America’s
Central Intelligence Agency encouraged Tibet’s revolt
against China–and eventually came to control its
fledgling resistance movement. They provide the first
comprehensive, as well as most compelling account of
this little known agency enterprise.
The CIA’s Secret [...]
Posted in obesity on March 17, 2008 | No Comments »
By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Editor
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Overeating disrupts entire networks of genes in the body, causing not only obesity, but diabetes and heart disease, in ways that may be possible to predict, researchers reported on Sunday.
The researchers developed a new method of analyzing DNA and used it to discover that obesity is [...]
Posted in Beijing Olympics, China, Dalai Lama, Tibet on March 17, 2008 | No Comments »
BEIJING, March 17 — Vowing a harsh crackdown, Chinese police conducted house-to-house searches in central Lhasa Monday and rounded up hundreds of Tibetans suspected of participating in a deadly outburst of anti-Chinese violence, exile groups and residents reported.
The large-scale arrests and official promises of tough reprisals suggested the Chinese government has decided to move decisively [...]
Posted in Iran on March 17, 2008 | No Comments »
TEHRAN, March 16: Conser-vatives appeared to be winning a majority in Iran’s parliament, showing Iranians’ defiance of the West, state television said on Sunday. The United States and Europe called the vote unfair after a number of pro-West reformists were barred from running.
Partial results from Tehran showed a resounding victory for conservatives, with parliament speaker [...]
Posted in Halle Berry on March 17, 2008 | No Comments »
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Posted in New York on March 17, 2008 | No Comments »
New York has always been a city of construction cranes: They are the steel crutches of the skyline, forever pulling it upward. But when one of them collapsed on the East Side on Saturday — killing at least four people, demolishing a building and damaging at least five others — the disaster exposed the often-uneasy [...]
Posted in Eliot Spitzer on March 17, 2008 | 4 Comments »
In Eliot Spitzer’s sex scandal and tragicomic downfall, the question that bugged many people did not have to do with ethics or politics, but whether Spitzer got a raw deal.
What does someone like Spitzer get when he pays a prostitute $5,000, as opposed to $500 or $50? Could sex with one prostitute really be 10 [...]
Posted in FBI, Pakistan, US on March 17, 2008 | 2 Comments »
WASHINGTON, March 16 (Reuters) - FBI agents were among those wounded in a bomb attack on an Italian restaurant in Islamabad during the weekend, the FBI said on Sunday.
“Four FBI personnel were slightly injured in the bombing attack in Pakistan. The FBI is providing the necessary assistance to our employees and their families,” FBI spokesman [...]
Posted in Bear Stearns, JPMorgan on March 17, 2008 | No Comments »
By Megan Davies and Joseph Giannone
NEW YORK (Reuters) - JPMorgan Chase & Co (JPM.N: Quote, Profile, Research) said on Sunday it would buy stricken rival Bear Stearns (BSC.N: Quote, Profile, Research) for just $2 a share in an all-stock deal that values the fifth largest investment bank at about $236 million.
Under the deal, the Federal [...]
