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Alexander Burns / The Politico:
Herman Cain now recalls ‘couple of other’ items in accuser's complaint — Herman Cain once again revised his account of the sexual harassment allegations he battled in the 1990s, saying in a TV interview he recalled there were additional “ridiculous” items in his accuser's complaint, beyond the single incident he detailed Monday.
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David Weigel / Slate:
Mark Block Won't Talk About the Other Cain Scandal … - Herman Cain's Other Scandal: His Campaign Chief Won't Talk About It — If the United States Had To Wage a New War Tomorrow, Could We Afford It? - Can You Ever Hire an “Escort” To Do “Escorting,” or Are They All Prostitutes?
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Andrew Malcolm / Investor's Business Daily:
C-SPAN delivers: Announces full live coverage of Saturday's Herman Cain-Newt Gingrich debate
C-SPAN delivers: Announces full live coverage of Saturday's Herman Cain-Newt Gingrich debate
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Fox News:
Herman Cain Explains His Side of Past Sexual Harassment Allegations to ‘On the Record’
Herman Cain Explains His Side of Past Sexual Harassment Allegations to ‘On the Record’
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Jennifer Jacobs / Iowa Caucuses:
Iowans appear ready to give Cain benefit of the doubt on sexual harassment allegations
Iowans appear ready to give Cain benefit of the doubt on sexual harassment allegations
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Santorum strategist urges Cain to come clean on harassment allegations
Santorum strategist urges Cain to come clean on harassment allegations
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Alexander Abad-Santos / The Atlantic Wire:
Cain Made $250,000 Off Yesterday's ‘Witch Hunt’
Cain Made $250,000 Off Yesterday's ‘Witch Hunt’
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Nia-Malika Henderson / Washington Post:
Gloria Cain to give ‘exclusive’ interview, Herman Cain says
Gloria Cain to give ‘exclusive’ interview, Herman Cain says
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Justin Sink / The Hill:
As more details emerge, some Republicans rise to Cain's defense
As more details emerge, some Republicans rise to Cain's defense
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Azi Paybarah / Capital New York:
Bloomberg: ‘Plain and simple,’ Congress caused the mortgage crisis, not the banks — Photo via British Prime Minister's Office flickr stream. — Owners of the park at the center of the Occupy Wall Street protests are losing patience, but what can they do? — 11:03 am Nov. 1, 20111Add a comment
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Andrew Breitbart / Big Government:
Rape, Gropes, and Assaults, Oh My: Mayor Bloomberg, Shut Down Zuccotti Park! … It's time for New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg to pull the plug on the dangerous circus in crime zone Zuccotti Park. — People have the right to protest, to assemble peaceably, to raise their voices and petition their government.
Investor's Business Daily:
Smoking-Gun Document Ties Policy To Housing Crisis — President Obama says the Occupy Wall Street protests show a “broad-based frustration” among Americans with the financial sector, which continues to kick against regulatory reforms three years after the financial crisis.
New York Post:
Occupy ‘ball’ street — It's the Autumn of Love! — Occupy Wall Street protesters are flocking to nearby health clinics for STD and HIV testing after getting their freak on in '60s-style hookups with crusty strangers, sources told The Post yesterday. — “Last week was free love,” …
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Henry Blodget / Business Insider:
Wow, Jon Corzine — Way To Fly Your Company Into A Mountain — Well, this one's right up there with the most spectacular CEO disasters ever. — Yesterday, 18 months after Jon Corzine took over the helm of MF Global with the goal of building it into a real investment bank, he flew the company into a mountain.
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Andrew Ross Sorkin / DealBook:
It's Lonely Without the Goldman Net
It's Lonely Without the Goldman Net
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Daniel Wagner / Associated Press:
Official: MF Global admitted using client money
Joe Nocera / New York Times:
Corzine Crashes Like It's 2008
Corzine Crashes Like It's 2008
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DealBook:
Regulators Investigating MF Global for Missing Money
Regulators Investigating MF Global for Missing Money
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Jonathan Weisman / Washington Wire:
Satire on Occupy Wall Street Trips Up Rick Perry — Satire may not be Texas Gov. Rick Perry's thing. — Last Friday, at the swanky Barley House tavern in Concord, N.H., Mr. Perry took a little jab at the Occupy Wall Street crowd, referencing an amusing quote his son had sent him from a protester occupying Toronto.
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Eman El-Shenawi / Alarabiya.net English:
Tunisians poke fun at Obama in assault on his Facebook page
Tunisians poke fun at Obama in assault on his Facebook page
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Are big banks feeling pressure from Occupy Wall Street?
Are big banks feeling pressure from Occupy Wall Street?
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New York Times:
Europe Markets Drop on News of Greek Referendum — ATHENS — European markets slid dramatically on Tuesday after Prime Minister George A. Papandreou stunned the continent's leaders with a surprise announcement late Monday that his government would hold a referendum on a new aid package for Greece.
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Mike Rosenberg / Mercury News:
Bullet train project nearly triples in cost — $98.5 billion — from earlier projections — Faster than a speeding bullet train, the cost of the state's massive high-speed rail project has zoomed to nearly $100 billion — triple the estimate given to voters and more than enough to run the entire state government for a year.
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Ralph Vartabedian / Los Angeles Times:
Bullet train cost estimates rise to $98.5 billion
Bullet train cost estimates rise to $98.5 billion
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Equality Matters:
Chick-Fil-A Donated Nearly $2 Million To Anti-Gay Groups In 2009 — Earlier this year, Chick-fil-A became embroiled in a controversy surrounding its donations to anti-gay groups. Though Chick-fil-A president Dan Cathy denied having an “agenda against anyone,” an Equality Matters investigation discovered …
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Lee Fang / ThinkProgress:
Exclusive: Romney Family Investment Group Partnered With Alleged Perpetrators Of $8 Billion Ponzi Scheme — Mitt Romney and his son Tagg Romney. Tagg is the managing partner to Solamere Capital, a firm that invested in a new company employing brokers accused of taking part in the Allen Stanford Ponzi scheme.
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Richard J. Goldstone / New York Times:
Israel and the Apartheid Slander — THE Palestinian Authority's request for full United Nations membership has put hope for any two-state solution under increasing pressure. The need for reconciliation between Israelis and Palestinians has never been greater.
Dan Fitzpatrick / Wall Street Journal:
BofA Calls Off Debit-Fee Plan — Bank of America Corp. is dropping its plan to charge customers $5 a month for making purchases with their debit cards, a person familiar with the situation said. — The move is a dramatic retreat following decisions by several rivals in recent days to drop customer tests of the new fees.
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Tim Stelloh / New York Times:
Brooklyn Detective Convicted of Planting Drugs on Innocent People — The New York Police Department, already saddled with corruption scandals, saw its image further tainted on Tuesday with the conviction of a police detective for planting drugs on a woman and her boyfriend.
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David Brooks / New York Times:
The Wrong Inequality — We live in a polarizing society, so perhaps it's inevitable that our experience of inequality should be polarized, too. — In the first place, there is what you might call Blue Inequality. This is the kind experienced in New York City, Los Angeles, Boston …
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Roll Call:
And Congress' Rich Get Richer — Net Worth of Lawmakers Up 25 Percent in Two Years, Analysis Demonstrates — Members of Congress had a collective net worth of more than $2 billion in 2010, a nearly 25 percent increase over the 2008 total, according to a Roll Call analysis of Members' financial disclosure forms.
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Reuters:
Exclusive: Group forms inside debt panel in quest for deal — (Reuters) - Six members of a congressional “super committee” have struck out on their own in a new effort to come up with a plan to slash America's huge deficits before a November 23 deadline. — The three Republicans …
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Offbeat news:
Camping sorry for failed apocalypse predictions — In this photo from Sunday, May 22, 2011, Christian radio host Harold Camping speaks outside of his home in Alameda, Calif. (AP Photo/Sprinkle Lab, Brandon Tauszik) — OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) - Religious broadcaster Harold Camping …
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Philip Caulfield / NY Daily News:
Shorter University in Ga. requires employees to sign pledge saying they are not gay — Employees who don't sign new ‘personal lifestyle pledge’ risk getting fired — Facebook photo of Shorter University. Shorter University is making its employees sign a “lifestyle statement” that pledges that they reject homosexuality.
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Isaac Chotiner / The New Republic:
Did Tim Pawlenty Blow It? — November has begun. The first voting in Iowa starts in almost exactly two months. Mitt Romney is the front-runner, but he can't crack 25% in the polls. (It's hard to remember a front-runner with any comparable ceiling). Rick Perry has a lot of money …
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New York Post:
Tossed cart hit philanthropist — A wealthy Manhattan real-estate agent buying Halloween goodies for underprivileged kids at an East Harlem mall was nearly killed by two 12-year-old punks who dropped a shopping cart on her from four stories above — then laughed about it later, police sources said yesterday.
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