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NEWS

Katrina claims stagger corps
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New Orleans and Louisiana, swamped when the city's storm protections
failed
during Hurricane Katrina, demand the federal government pay a damage
bill that
is more than double the entire cost of the massive Gulf Coast rebuilding
effort.

Abduction shatters a family in Baghdad
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The nightmare for Adnan Mahmoud Shukur and his family began with a
crude,
handwritten note slipped under their garage door.

U.S. announces 10 weekend soldier deaths; cleric wants forces out
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The powerful Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr ordered his militiamen to
redouble
their battle to oust American forces and argued that Iraq's army and
police
should join him in defeating "your archenemy."

MONEY

Earnings expectations are not so great
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The next few weeks could be gut-check time on Wall Street as investors
deal
with the lowest earnings growth in five years.

# posted by John @ 4/09/2007 12:00:00 PM