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Prosecutors Ask if 8 Banks Duped Rating Agencies
By LOUISE STORY
The New York attorney general is said to be scrutinizing eight banks that may have provided misleading information to rating agencies to inflate the grades of securities.
Distrust of Afghan Leaders Threatens U.S. War Strategy
By ALISSA J. RUBIN
The fate of the new U.S. strategy may well depend on whether Afghans can overcome their corrosive distrust of President Hamid Karzai’s government.
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In a Job Market Realignment, Some Left Behind
By CATHERINE RAMPELL
The economy gave employers a chance to do what they would have done anyway: dismiss people in certain fields.
Killer in Chinese Stabbing Knew Victims, Reports Say
By EDWARD WONG
The man who committed the latest in a series of attacks on schoolchildren came from a village where the children and their families knew the killer.
Dissident Thai General is Shot
By THOMAS FULLER
Gen. Khattiya Sawatdiphol, who is allied with the red shirt protesters, was shot during an interview as the military planned to encircle the barricaded encampment.
Kagan’s Link to Marshall Cuts 2 Ways
By CHARLIE SAVAGE
Liberals and conservatives alike are finding meaning in Elena Kagan’s clerkship with Justice Thurgood Marshall.
BP Says Leak May Be Closer to a Solution
By HENRY FOUNTAIN and MATTHEW L. WALD
New plans involving work on a blowout preventer could move officials closer to halting the oil.
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Small New York Town Makes English the Law
By PETER APPLEBOME
Jackson, N.Y., started its own Arizona-like culture war by requiring all municipal business to be handled in English.
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