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The World's Billionaires 2011 - Forbes.com

forbes.com - Browse The List Net Worth Calculated March 2011 Rank Name Net WorthAge Source Country of Citizenship1 Carlos Slim Helu & family $74 B 71 telecom Mexico 2 Bill Gates $56 B 55 Microsoft United States...

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Occupy Wall Street Offshoot, Unions Protest in Chicago

online.wsj.com - BY JACK NICAS CHICAGO—A long-planned Chicago protest against the financial community was augmented Monday evening by the local offshoot of the Occupy Wall Street movement. Thousands of protesters, ...

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nypost.com - New York political kingmaker and religious leader Floyd Flake rakes in the cash -- and leaves wreckage behind, critics say.For five years, the former congressman headed one of the largest churches ...

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MCS mistakes prove costly » The Commercial Appeal

commercialappeal.com - I am one of the many Memphis City Schools teachers whose official status is "surplus teacher." Supt. Kriner Cash derisively refers to us as "lemons." For him, it may be a joke. For cash-strapped ta...

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Despite all the advertising, the cell phone experiment is a flop

nycpublicschoolparents.blogspot.com - Yesterday’s NY Times features an article about the new institute at Harvard run by Roland Fryer with Eli Broad’s money, which is going to evaluate the results of Fryer’s large scale experiments to ...

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The Milquetoast Radicals

nytimes.com - The U.S. economy is probably going to stink for a few more years. It is beset by short-term problems (low consumer demand, uncertain housing prices, too much debt) and long-term problems (wage stag...

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California Bans Openly Carrying Handguns

baycitizen.org - Courtesy Richmond Confidential Hours after Gov. Jerry Brown announced he had signed a bill to prohibit Californians from openly carrying unloaded handguns, law enforcement officials and Bay Area ac...

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Occupy Wall St. Richest One Percent Answer Back

abcnews.go.com - In the 5th week of the Occupy Wall St. movement, with protests now having spread now to 150 U.S. cities and even to Europe, the apparent objects of that protest—the richest 1 percent—are starting t...

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The Occupy movement comes to Oakland

sfgate.com - Ben Margot / AP Protesters participate in an Occupy Oakland rally Monday. (10-10) 18:05 PDT OAKLAND -- Hundreds of protesters poured into Oakland's Frank Ogawa Plaza this evening, joining a multi-c...

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Princess Sydney Morris Calls Mall Cops On A True American

southbronxschool.com - Hey teachers of Los Angeles, here is more truth to how Educators4Excellence works. Behind ever wingnut there is their wingnut babe. Juan Peron had Evita, Hitler had Eva Braun, Mussolini had Clara...

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Back Home, and Homeless - NYTimes.com

atwar.blogs.nytimes.com - Courtesy of Matt FarwellThe author on deployment in Afghanistan.Mid-June, 2011: I find myself alone in a dark wooded park tucked between million-dollar houses south of Stanford University, looking ...

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Median U.S. Incomes Shrank Further After Recession

nytimes.com - WASHINGTON — In a grim sign of the enduring nature of the economic slump, household income declined more in the two years after the recession ended than it did during the recession itself, new rese...

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Newspaper CEO resigns with $37 million payout

tucsonsentinel.com - Posted Oct 6, 2011, 4:49 pm Dylan Smith TucsonSentinel.comThe head of the parent company of the Arizona Republic, the shuttered Tucson Citizen - and part owner of the Arizona Daily Star operation -...

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Sites and Sounds from #OccupyChicago

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