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IOC: 'Crisis' hurts Games

Associated Press
Apr 10, 2008 11:00 pm - BEIJING -- Crisis. Disarray. Sadness. Four months before the opening of what was supposed to be the grandest Olympics in history, the head of the International Olympic C...
Credit crunch puts crimp in student loans

Associated Press
Apr 10, 2008 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- Lenders are dropping out of the federally backed student loan business in droves, fleeing an environment squeezed of cash because of the credit crunch. The...
Suspect in slaying of pregnant Marine arrested in small town in Mexico

Associated Press
Apr 10, 2008 11:00 pm - MORELIA, Mexico -- A Marine suspected of killing a pregnant colleague told police he slept in fields and survived by eating fruit that he found during a three-month manh...
Mid-size cars show improvement in crash tests

Associated Press
Apr 09, 2008 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- Several mid-size cars have made strides in protecting motorists in side crashes through standard air bags and improved designs, the insurance industry repo...
Reality check: Workers want their overtime pay

Reuters
Apr 09, 2008 11:00 pm - LOS ANGELES -- A dozen former workers on some of TV's leading reality shows, including "American Idol," filed state labor complaints Tuesday seeking $500,000 in unpaid o...
Middle class feels gloomy

Associated Press
Apr 09, 2008 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- More and more middle-class Americans say they aren't better off than five years ago, reflecting economic pressures amid growing personal debt, a study rele...
Far from the madding crowd

Associated Press
Apr 09, 2008 11:00 pm - SAN FRANCISCO -- The Olympic torch played hide and seek with thousands of demonstrators and spectators crowding the city's waterfront Wednesday before being spirited awa...
Containing Iranian threat in Iraq to be left to next president

By David Ignatius Columnist
Apr 09, 2008 11:00 pm - The language that Gen. David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker used Tuesday to describe the Iranian role in Iraq was extreme -- and telling. They spoke of Tehran's "n...
Boy steered bus to avoid hitting truck

Associated Press
Apr 09, 2008 11:00 pm - CLEVELAND -- The 11-year-old boy who steered a runaway school bus to safety said Wednesday he did it because a truck was coming at them and because his brother also was ...
Hurricane forecasts not blowing us away

Reuters
Apr 09, 2008 11:00 pm - MIAMI -- In the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season, the worst in recorded history, the most famous of hurricane forecasters was way off the mark when he predicted there woul...

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