Guardian Unlimited - The entire executive of the United States, from the President down to the humblest subordinate, would according to custom, have gone out of office today if the popular choice had been declared to fall on the Democratic candidate for the Chief

SEC looks into giant thrift’s practices
Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel - The Securities and Exchange Commission is lookin into how Washington Mutual Inc. , the nation’s largest savings and loan, handled mortgages that were possibly based on inflated home appraisals. “We are voluntarily and fully cooperating with the SEC’s

A Frightening Obsession
Hartford Courant - BRIDGEPORT - The first time Anthony Perone’s mother ever heard him talk about a girl, it was to ask if she had saved his elementary school class pictures. In them was a girl he was obsessed with in third grade. The obsession never faded. The

Rooted in pagan celebrations, German Christmas has many rituals
San Francisco Gate - When I tell my friends that in the German style, we don’t decorate our Christmas tree until Dec. 24, they pity me a bit. “What’s the point?” one of them asked, assuming that this custom indicated a lack of holiday spirit. Nothing could be further

Bedard likely won’t be dealt by opener
Baltimore Sun - After listening to trade proposals for his ace for the past couple of months, Andy MacPhail says it is a “strong likelihood” that Erik Bedard will be the Orioles’ Opening Day starter rather than being traded. “It’s up to [manager] Dave Trembley in

Mao Tolerated Christmas Before Takeover
Los Angeles Times - It was not, he said, the custom. Later, when I quit Yanan, Mao offered to pick up my board bill, a gesture I equally politely declined. I instead paid the stiff-backed American commander, Col. Ivan D. Yeaton. By then, the “who lost China?” campaign

Finer Things: Fending off the chill
Crain’s Chicago business - When Harold Plass, owner of Addison-based Plass Appliance, moved with his wife into their custom five-bedroom home in Glen Ellyn two years ago, he made sure to get the heated driveway. “(The system) will dry up the driveway, then run for another hour

On the move
St. Petersburg Times - Bean is owner of Bay Area Custom T-Shirts, Clearwater; Cooper is a third-grade teacher at Curlew Creek Elementary School, Palm Harbor; Hoover is president of Applied Paper Pulp & Substrate Sources Inc., Clearwater; Reidy-Zumdieck is a certified

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