Will JPMorgan's $2 Billion Blunder Finally End 'Too Big to Fail'?
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Defenestrated: Partners in Opinion: Pros and Cons of a Preservation Contest
Be not afeared: Defenestrated is Curbed's new architecture column, from the minds of Thomas de Monchaux and/or Philip Nobel. Send thoughts and leads to defenestrated@curbed.com. Here now, Philip Nobel on Partners in Preservation. By now we've all had the chance...
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A Gold Standard?
A Piece Of My Mind, by Jim Grant A Gold Standard? Carlsbad, Tulsa, Chicago, and Atlanta
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Feds dismiss UN envoy's findings on hunger, poor diets
Federal ministers are scoffing at the findings of a United Nations right-to-food envoy who blasted Canada for tolerating inequality and lack of access to nutritious diets among its poor and First Nation citizens.
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MPs' expenses scandal: what happened next?
Disgraced, depressed and, in some cases, imprisoned: politicians tainted by the expenses scandal talk frankly about trying to rebuild their lives Lord Hanningfield talks about prison with a warmth verging on the nostalgic. There was a comforting familiarity to Standford Hill prison on the Isle of Sheppey. Two cells away was former Labour MP Jim Devine (jailed for claiming £8,385 worth of false ...
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