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We are currently enduring a global financial crisis. A crisis, it must be said, borne largely on the wings of corruption, mismanagement, incompetence and greed. The psychological dimensions of such malevolent activity are strikingly obvious. I am..
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AP, Sydney
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AP, Washington
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AP, Tokyo
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Suzanne Bonner waters potted herbs in back of her Palmetto Bay, Fla., home Saturday, Sept. 6, 2008. Bonner, whose home was ravaged during Hurricane Andrew in 1992 and damaged in Hurricane Wilma in 2005, says she rises at 5 a.m. each day to watch the...
