GOP predicts doomsday if Obama budget passed (AP)

March 23rd, 2009 by admin

GOP predicts doomsday if Obama budget passed
(AP)

In this March 16, 2009 file photo, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner makes remarks to small business owners, community lenders and members of Congress in the East Room of the White House in Washington.  Geithner is putting the finishing touches on a plan to get toxic assets off the books of the country's struggling banks, according to administration and industry officials. The plan could be announced as soon as Monday (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds, File)AP – Congressional Republicans on Sunday predicted a doomsday scenario of crushing debt and eventual federal bankruptcy if President Barack Obama’s massive spending blueprint wins passage.

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GOP predicts doomsday if Obama budget passed (AP)

March 23rd, 2009 by admin

GOP predicts doomsday if Obama budget passed
(AP)

In this March 16, 2009 file photo, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner makes remarks to small business owners, community lenders and members of Congress in the East Room of the White House in Washington.  Geithner is putting the finishing touches on a plan to get toxic assets off the books of the country's struggling banks, according to administration and industry officials. The plan could be announced as soon as Monday (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds, File)AP – Congressional Republicans on Sunday predicted a doomsday scenario of crushing debt and eventual federal bankruptcy if President Barack Obama’s massive spending blueprint wins passage.

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Iran’s supreme leader dismisses Obama overtures (AP)

March 21st, 2009 by admin

Iran’s supreme leader dismisses Obama overtures
(AP)

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei waves to his supporters during his visit to Mashhad,  900 km (540 miles) east of Tehran, Iran, on Saturday March 21, 2009.  Iran's supreme leader rebuffed President Barack Obama's latest outreach on Saturday, saying Tehran was still waiting to see concrete changes in U.S. policy.  Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was responding to a video message Obama released Friday in which he reached out to Iran on the occasion of Nowruz, the Persian new year, and expressed hopes for an improvement in nearly 30 years of strained relations. (AP Photo/ISNA)AP – Iran’s supreme leader rebuffed President Barack Obama’s latest outreach on Saturday, saying Tehran was still waiting to see concrete changes in U.S. policy.

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Not so deadly? Chance Tulsa spider misidentified (AP)

March 20th, 2009 by admin

Not so deadly? Chance Tulsa spider misidentified
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AP – A spider that was found in a Tulsa grocery store may not have been as deadly as originally thought.

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Not so deadly? Chance Tulsa spider misidentified (AP)

March 20th, 2009 by admin

Not so deadly? Chance Tulsa spider misidentified
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AP – A spider that was found in a Tulsa grocery store may not have been as deadly as originally thought.

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Not so deadly? Chance Tulsa spider misidentified (AP)

March 20th, 2009 by admin

Not so deadly? Chance Tulsa spider misidentified
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AP – A spider that was found in a Tulsa grocery store may not have been as deadly as originally thought.

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Natasha Richardson mourned as a ‘wonderful woman’ (AP)

March 19th, 2009 by admin

Natasha Richardson mourned as a ‘wonderful woman’
(AP)

FILE -- In this April 26, 2005, file photo, actress Natasha Richardson is shown at her opening night performance in the Roundabout Theatre Company's Broadway production of 'A Streetcar Named Desire' Studio 54 in New York.  Richardson, 45, died Wednesday March 18, 2009 in New York. (AP Photo/Tina Fineberg, File)AP – Tributes have begun to pour in from across the show business generations for Natasha Richardson, the Tony Award-winning actress who died after suffering a head injury on a ski slope.

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Natasha Richardson mourned as a ‘wonderful woman’ (AP)

March 19th, 2009 by admin

Natasha Richardson mourned as a ‘wonderful woman’
(AP)

FILE -- In this April 26, 2005, file photo, actress Natasha Richardson is shown at her opening night performance in the Roundabout Theatre Company's Broadway production of 'A Streetcar Named Desire' Studio 54 in New York.  Richardson, 45, died Wednesday March 18, 2009 in New York. (AP Photo/Tina Fineberg, File)AP – Tributes have begun to pour in from across the show business generations for Natasha Richardson, the Tony Award-winning actress who died after suffering a head injury on a ski slope.

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Natasha Richardson mourned as a ‘wonderful woman’ (AP)

March 19th, 2009 by admin

Natasha Richardson mourned as a ‘wonderful woman’
(AP)

FILE -- In this April 26, 2005, file photo, actress Natasha Richardson is shown at her opening night performance in the Roundabout Theatre Company's Broadway production of 'A Streetcar Named Desire' Studio 54 in New York.  Richardson, 45, died Wednesday March 18, 2009 in New York. (AP Photo/Tina Fineberg, File)AP – Tributes have begun to pour in from across the show business generations for Natasha Richardson, the Tony Award-winning actress who died after suffering a head injury on a ski slope.

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AIG chairman inherits retention bonus mess (AP)

March 18th, 2009 by admin

AIG chairman inherits retention bonus mess
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American International Group offices in New York. The US administration and lawmakers have scrambled for ways to recoup employee bonuses awarded by the rescued insurer as President Barack Obama grappled to douse a political firestorm.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Mario Tama)AP – Edward M. Liddy, chairman and CEO of American International Group Inc. since last fall, has become the reluctant defender of princely employee bonuses that members of Congress — and much of the American public — find indefensible.

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