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Homeless Man Actually Lawyer With Amnesia

One New York attorney took starting off with a clean slate a little bit too far. On Feb. 13, a homeless man was ID’d as Raymond Power Jr., 57, a New York lawyer who had been missing for almost seven months after suffering amnesia, the Chicago police department said. Power …

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Toshiba Takes Westinghouse for $5.4B

LONDON/TOKYO – Japan’s Toshiba Corp. has agreed to buy Westinghouse, the U.S. power plant arm of British Nuclear Fuels, for $5.4 billion to bolster its position in the world’s resurgent nuclear power industry. Japan’s second-biggest electronics maker said on Monday it expected several minority investors to join the deal but …

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Don't Monkey With Your Mutual Fund Advice

BOSTON – Plenty of people believe that mutual funds are such a simplistic investment that an educated chimp could pick a good one. But that doesn’t mean you want to monkey around with that chimp’s advice. “Sammy, the chatting chimp” claims to provide “astute accounting advice” in his column in …

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