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Europe ponders 'banking union' to avert further euro crises
World NowEuropean leaders called Wednesday for the 17-nation Eurozone to create a "banking union" to collectively stabilize struggling financial institutions and protect national governments from taking on excessive debt to bail out their banks.... -
EU calls for 'banking union' to ease crisis
The European Union's executive office said the 17-country Eurozone needs a "banking union" that can centrally oversee and — if needed — bail out the sector, which has become a weak link in the continent's financial system. Fears that the cost...Tags: Politics, Career and Workplace, Financial Markets, Labor Markets, National Government
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BBC America's 'Copper' takes on New York crime in the 1860s
It seemed like a good idea at the time: Convert an area in Lower Manhattan into a comfortable, racially integrated middle-class neighborhood as the city's population swelled, largely through European immigration. Things didn't turn out so well, though:...
Tags: Companies and Corporations, CSI (tv program), Wars and Interventions, Downton Abbey (tv program), Concerts
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Letters: War on terror, or a battle of ideas?
Re "Killing Al Qaeda," Opinion, May 24 A quick search of the Web yields much about the concept of "shooting the messenger," with scribes from Plutarch to Shakespeare chiming in. Should we be surprised that after centuries of Western support for brutal...
Tags: Politics, United Kingdom, Donovan, Al-Qaeda, Islam
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Eaton buys Cooper Industries in $11-billion deal
Eaton Corp. has agreed to purchase Cooper Industries in a cash-and-stock deal valued at about $11.46 billion that is designed to expand its reach in the global electrical power and distribution industry.
The deal announced Monday would create a company...Tags: Companies and Corporations, Eaton Corporation, Moody's Corporation, Cooper Industries Incorporated, Economy, Business and Finance
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Review: Striking visuals lift 'Cold Dream Colour' at REDCAT
Visceral expressionism and a prodigious visual beauty coalesced in “Cold Dream Colour,” a dance-theater homage to seminal Irish artist Louis le Brocquy. It received its U.S. premiere at a sold-out performance Wednesday evening (continuing...
Tags: Music, Entertainment, Dance, Music Industry, Concerts
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A dual-citizen Facebook founder 'de-Americanizes' himself
First Rep. Michele Bachmann renounced the Swiss citizenship she acquired through her husband, insisting that "I am, and always have been, 100% committed to our United States Constitution and the United States of America.” Then it was reported that...
Tags: U.S. Department of State, Same-Sex Marriage, Barack Obama, Michele M. Bachmann
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Joyce Redman dies at 96; actress twice nominated for Oscars
Joyce Redman, a two-time Oscar-nominated Irish-born actress whose erotically charged dinner-eating scene opposite Albert Finney was a highlight of the bawdy 1963 British film comedy "Tom Jones," has died. She was 96. Redman died Thursday in Kent, England...
Tags: Tony Richardson, Albert Finney, Drama (genre), London Theatre, Celebrities
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Gay marriage: Where it's legal around the world
World NowGay marriage is still illegal in much of the United States, where President Barack Obama recently threw his support to allowing same-sex couples to wed. It also remains rare around the world, as the above map from the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual,... -
Review: Jockey biopic 'The Cup' loses its way
"The Cup," the true-life story of jockey Damien Oliver's miracle win atAustralia's2002 Melbourne Cup just a week after the death of his brother, is a tale of heart-wrenching tragedy and uplifting triumph that never quite hits its stride. This modestly...
Tags: Movies, Kentucky Derby, Simon Wincer, Melbourne (Australia), Entertainment
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The Sunday Conversation: Jeremy Irons digs in to 'Borgias' darkness
Jeremy Irons stars as the ruthless Rodrigo Borgia, who became Pope Alexander VI, in Showtime's period drama"The Borgias," now in its second season. You really seem like you're having fun with this role. I'm glad about that. I've always believed that...
Tags: Showtime (tv network), The Borgias (tv program), Italy, Jeremy Irons, London (England)
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Who says 'Obamacare' will kill free enterprise? Romney does
In my column on Sunday, I quoted Mitt Romney’s warning last week that President Obama’s health reform law could doom the free-enterprise system in the United States. “With Obamacare fully installed,” Romney said, “government...
Tags: Politics, Economic Indicator, National Government, Unemployment Benefits, Health
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