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Herman Cain Immigration Plan Joke Isn't Funny

Republican presidential nomination candidate Herman Cain.
Herman Cain says he was just making a joke about deterring illegal immigrants from coming into America with electrocution at the border. His so-called joke, told to two crowds in Tennessee where the GOP presidential candidate was campaigning last week, went like this: It's giong to be 20 feet high, Cain said, according to The New York Times. It's going to have barbed wire at the top. It's going to be electrified. And there's going to be a sign on the other side saying, ...
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China says Wall Street protests cause for reflection

China's Foreign Ministry said Monday global protests sparked by the Occupy Wall Street movement in the United States were a cause for reflection, but the reflection should be focused on ensuring the world's healthy economic growth.
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Elizabeth Taylor remembered by Hollywood friends

Hundreds of friends and family of Elizabeth Taylor gathered on a Hollywood movie studio lot on Sunday for a memorial celebration of the screen star, who died earlier this year at the age of 79.
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'Betterment' Strives for Better Investing

Jon Stein got a good education in economics at Harvard and Columbia Business School. In nearly every economics class, Stein said he was taught that for any investor who doesn't have better market information than another there's just one optimal portfolio to own: The market portfolio.
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Is it crisis time at Sitrick?

Michael Sitrick is the biggest name in crisis management, but the public relations guru is grappling with plunging earnings and a stream of executive defections that have set tongues wagging.
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US court to hear Shell Nigeria human rights case

The Supreme Court said on Monday it would decide whether companies can be liable in this country for international human rights law violations, a case involving allegations that Royal Dutch Shell Plc helped Nigeria violently suppress oil exploration protests in the 1990s.
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Lions Roar No More as Packers Remain Top Dogs

The Detroit Lions suffered their first defeat of the National Football League season on Sunday, their 25-19 loss to the San Francisco 49ers leaving the Green Bay Packers as the only unbeaten team after six weeks of play.
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Occupy Times Square Photos: Chanting, Music and Dancing

A demonstration in solidarity of the Occupy Wall Street movement took over Times Square Saturday. The protest, which spread over a bowtie-shaped archipelago of pedestrian plazas on Times Square between West 43rd and 47th Streets, had two distinct ideological flavors.
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NY Fed Manufacturing Contracts Again in October

A gauge of manufacturing in New York State contracted for a fifth month in a row in October, but modest improvements in new orders and employment provided a hit of stabilization, the New York Federal Reserve said in a report on Monday.
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Stock Futures Flat after Market Run-up; Eyes on Europe

U.S. stock index futures were little changed on Monday after the market's best two-week run since 2009 as Germany's finance minister said a forthcoming European summit would not yield a definitive solution to the region's debt crisis as many investors had hoped.

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