Published Date: September 20, 2008
COLUMN ONE

The upscale diner near 5th and Main draws on locals for financing and staff. Its owners aim to nourish the neighborhood.

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Officials want a federal insurance program for money market mutual funds and a ban on some short sales.


Many services are contracted out and more than half its track is shared with freight trains. Even some board members say they lack expertise on some of the problems the system faces.


Nujood Ali, who became an international celebrity after refusing to accept her marriage to a man three times her age and winning a divorce, is now back to a semblance of a normal life in Sana.


NEWS ANALYSIS

Their responses to recent crises suggest what kind of a president each might be.


The jump from 7.4% in July puts the state in a tie with Mississippi for the third-highest jobless rate in the U.S.


Daily developments

* The government says it will purchase hundreds of billions of dollars of bad debt from troubled banks.

 
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