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Oxford University nude calendar censored for being 'too erotic'

Never keen to be outshone by Cambridge University which was involved in a row last month over its first tabloid newspaper complete with students posing as "Page 3" girls under the banner "Totty" Oxford now has its own nude...

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Accused Ponzi schemer: I learned of fraud late

ST. PAUL, Minnesota (Reuters) - Minnesota businessman Tom Petters made a final push on Friday to convince a federal jury he was not responsible for a $3.65 billion Ponzi scheme that bankrupted his company.

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Morgan Unloads Crescent

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Medidata Files Shelf Registration for Offering

Medidata Solutions plans 4.5 million-share common stock offering; stock falls NEW YORK November 20, 2009 (AP) The Associated Press Post a Comment Medidata Solutions Inc., a maker of software and services for clinical...

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Real Estate Agents See Return of Foreign Buyers

Low prices, weak dollar attracts international investors into US housing market By ADRIAN SAINZ AP Real Estate Writer The Associated Press Post a Comment Canadian investor Arthur Wong is buying condos in Las Vegas and Phoenix...

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Paulson's golden investors have to commit $10 million

BOSTON (Reuters) - Investors tempted to put money into star hedge fund manager John Paulson's new gold portfolio will have to commit at least $10 million and leave the money locked up for at least one year, according to a...

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Hershey stirs pot in Kraft's Cadbury bid

Pennsylvania chocolate-maker may bid $17 billion for Cadbury, prompting bidding war It's increasingly looking like Northfield-based Kraft Foods Inc. may end up in a bidding war with Hershey Co. for British confectionery giant...

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Time Warner, News Corp reported interested in MGM

NEW YORK (Reuters) - News Corp, Time Warner Inc and Qualia Capital LLC are interested in buying Hollywood's Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film studio, home of the James Bond movies, Bloomberg News reported on Friday.

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Newsweek: Students hit by high-interest loans

An Education in Student Loans College degrees are supposed to last a lifetime, but should tuition loan payments? As relatively cheap, private bank and federally backed loans became harder to come by, some colleges, vocational...

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Looking to Energize Returns?

Partnerships That Tap Into Pipelines and Such Are Trying to Recover By ANN DAVIS For investors looking for high-income investments, energy partnerships such as pipeline businesses sometimes yielded more trouble than reward...

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