| January 2008
And, he added, he had the support of independents as well. The next Republican primary is next Tuesday in Florida. The winner will receive 57 Republican National Convention delegates. It's the first winner-take-all contest in terms of delegates and the final primary before Super Tuesday on Feb. 5. 7:00 AM ET | 01-25-2008 | permalink | comments (2) | e-mail post | trackbacks (0) .
In Search of a Subprime Villain
And turn-of-the-21st century book-cooking had poster boys Jeff Skilling and Bernie Ebbers. Now, the subprime meltdown cries out for its own icon—an easily vilified, Leno-quotable, high-seven-figured household name. If there were Vegas odds for this kind of thing, the money would be on Angelo Mozilo, founder and chief executive of Countrywide Financial (CFC), the largest U.S. mortgage lender and the source of so many of the bad home loans that have gummed up the global financial system. But don't finger Mozilo just yet. The scale, ripple effect, and emotional particulars of this bust make it uniquely hard to pin on one character. Countrywide will become less newsworthy as it is acquired by Bank of America (BAC), an outcome regulators want to hasten. And the more we dissect the subprime episode, the more we'll want to put the whole affair out of our minds altogether.
Payout for asbestos victim's widow
THE widow of a Chippenham man who was exposed to asbestos while building homes for the local authority has won a "substantial amount" in damages. North Wiltshire District Council agreed an out of court settlement following the death of Derek Love, who lived in The Butts, after a lengthy illness. His wife Audrey brought about the claim because her husband, during the course of his work as a plumber for the council, was exposed to asbestos for long periods of time. .
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