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Soros slams US, European officials for taking too long to address financial crisis
AP Business WriterWASHINGTON (AP) _ Outspoken billionaire investor George Soros on Sunday criticized U.S. and European officials for taking too long to effectively address the financial crisis. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson was "very slow" to react because his...Tags: George Bush, Henry Paulson, Political Campaigns, National Government, Financial Markets
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Weekend Talk Shows
TODAY Good Morning America An interview with vice presidential nominee Joe Biden (D) in his home state of Delaware. 7 a.m. KABC 45140 Larry King Live 6 and 9 p.m. CNN 874140, 447985 McLaughlin Group 6:30 p.m. KCET 28695 SUNDAY Today Career advice for...Tags: Washington Post Company, Tom Udall, Meet the Press, CBS Corp., Television Industry
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Keller and Feeney respond
U.S. Rep. Ric Keller: Mike Thomas's column in Tuesday's Sentinel took issue with the benefits of my tenure in Congress. I'm happy to discuss my record. First, to make our streets safer, I championed the COPS program, which helped put more than 800 law-...Tags: Corporate Crime, Forestry and Timber, Orlando, National Government, Tampa
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Home foreclosures soar in the Lehigh Valley
Of The Morning CallIn Lehigh County, foreclosure filings this year have already exceeded those of 2007. In Northampton County, they're on track to dwarf last year's mammoth number. But when the federal government in July announced a round of aid to help communities hit...Tags: Foreclosures, San Francisco, Homes, Michael Moore, Lafayette College
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Prop. 5 would overhaul sentencing of drug offenders
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterIn a state that has consistently boosted penalties for criminals, packing California's prisons to bursting, sponsors of the far-reaching Proposition 5 are asking voters in November to go in the opposite direction. The Nonviolent Offender...Tags: Prisons, San Diego County, Judges, Therapies, Addiction
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George Soros hates Paulson's bailout
The SwampGeorge Soros (AP Photo/Manish Swarup) by Frank James George Soros, billionaire financial speculator, philanthropist and liberal boogeyman to many conservatives, doesn't like Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson Jr. $700 billion bailout plan. Indeed, from...Tags: Financial and Business Services, Fannie Mae, Lehman Brothers Holdings Incorporated, Ethics, Financial Markets
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Soros behind effort in Mass. to decriminalize marijuana
Associated PressA measure that would decriminalize minor marijuana-possession cases is on the ballot in Massachusetts largely because of one man: billionaire financier and liberal activist George Soros. Of the $429,000 collected last year by the group advancing the...Tags: Medicine, Campaign Finance, Referenda, John McCain, Joe Biden
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California's propositions
By Robert GreeneProposition 1A What it does: Authorizes $9.95 billion in bonds to build an electric train to get people from Los Angeles to San Francisco in just over 2 1/2 hours. Back story: This is the governor's and the Legislature's baby, years in the making....Tags: Nancy Pelosi, Constitutional Issues, Natural Resources, Lancaster (Lancaster, Virginia), Referenda
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A Georgian soldier of the Velvet Revolution
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterShe's a soldier in a different kind of war. Every few months, Nini Gogiberidze is deployed abroad to teach democracy activists how to agitate for change against their autocratic governments, going everywhere from Eastern Europe to train Belarusians to...Tags: Demonstration, Defense, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Columbia University, Coup d'Etat
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Haiti's prime minister foresees a difficult job
Haiti's new prime minister on Tuesday downplayed expectations as she tries to revive the government of this divided and desperately poor country. Michele Pierre-Louis, an educator who heads a branch of billionaire George Soros' Open Society Institute,...Tags: Foreign Aid, Government
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Soros behind Mass. effort to decriminalize marijuana
Associated PressBOSTON — A measure that would decriminalize minor marijuana possession is on the ballot in Massachusetts largely because of billionaire financier and liberal activist George Soros. Of the $429,000 collected last year by the group advancing the...Tags: Campaign Finance, Addiction, George Bush, Voting, Elections
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Haiti finally gets new prime minister
The Associated PressHaitian lawmakers ratified Michele Pierre-Louis to be the impoverished country's prime minister on Thursday, ending more than three months of political bickering and deadlock in Parliament. Haiti's Senate approved Pierre-Louis as the country's No. 2...Tags: Delray Beach, Church and State Relations, Coup d'Etat, Christianity, Foreign Aid
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