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Media Notes: An Interview With Outgoing White House Press Secretary Dana Perino

The network stars were gone, the seats half empty and the questioning low-key as Dana Perino held a White House briefing last week, her biggest announcement that the administration would try to ease air traffic for the holidays.

Posted to washingtonpost.com (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-23-2008
In Va., a Powerful and Polarizing Pastor

Rob Foster was 16 when his family unraveled. He had told his parents that he wanted to leave Calvary Temple, the Pentecostal church in Sterling the family had attended for decades. But church leaders were blunt with his parents: Throw your son out of the house, or you will be excommunicated. And so....

Posted to washingtonpost.com (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-15-2008
Too Rugged for the City, Too Pretty for Off-Road

If the Land Rover sitting in my driveway were a job applicant, it would remain unemployed. It's a full-size 2008 LR3 V-8 HSE sport-utility vehicle. It's over-qualified for any job I have to do, any trip I'm planning to make.

Posted to washingtonpost.com (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-08-2008
Yet Again, Exxon Breaks Its Record Quarterly Profit

Exxon Mobil smashed its own U.S. record for quarterly profits yesterday, ringing up $14.83 billion in net income thanks to soaring summertime crude oil prices. But with crude oil prices now less than half their July peak and the economic outlook bleak, the record may stand for a while.

Posted to washingtonpost.com (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-30-2008
Wall St.'s Denizens Look East

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- Fahad al-Deweesh, a vice president at a Persian Gulf investment firm, is getting e-mails from old finance classmates at the University of Southern California he hasn't heard from in years, asking what the job market here looks like for Americans.

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Financial Meltdown Worsens Food Crisis

SHANGHAI -- As shock waves from the credit crisis began to spread around the world last month, China scrambled to protect itself. Among the most extreme measures it took was to impose new export taxes to keep critical supplies such as grains and fertilizer from leaving the country.

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Airlines Brace for Impact of Crisis

For much of the year, it appeared the surging price of oil would be the chief challenge facing the airline industry. Now airline executives are bracing for another threat: the deteriorating economy.

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Wall Street Greed? Not in This Neighborhood.

NEW DELHI -- With freshly cut keys to their new brick-and-cement homes, families in an impoverished settlement on the outskirts of India's capital honored a surprising hero this week: Richard S. Fuld Jr., head of the now-defunct Wall Street giant Lehman Brothers.

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$20 Million Job-Skills Ladder Created for Girls in Poor Nations

For years, global development experts have believed that if young women received the same schooling as young men, their families would have a path out of poverty. Now, with countries across the developing world documenting rapid progress toward gender equality in education, experts are focusing o...

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The End Of American Capitalism?

The worst financial crisis since the Great Depression is claiming another casualty: American-style capitalism.

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