Merrill's individual investors business, the Private Client Services division, won't hold back its stock price when investment banking firms like Goldman Sachs (nyse: GS - news - people ) and other institutional broker-dealers snapback amid a pickup in capital markets and merger and acquisition activity.

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The value of the education, marketing, and training received through athletic scholarships exceeds the individual marginal revenue product for at least 90% of all student-athletes in Division I sports.

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According to the on-line magazine Salon.com, a seemingly unqualified individual nonetheless secured a position as the policy director for the Department of Homeland Security's intelligence division, thanks to his ties to a well-connected political activist named Grover Norquist.

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On Thursday a group of 44 privacy and free expression groups along with 61 individual academics, activists and entrepreneurs signed their names to an open letter to Microsoft, demanding that its Skype division detail its government surveillance policies and practices.

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Beginning in 2014, Fox will expand its postseason coverage to include two of the four division series (TBS had been carrying that round, though beginning this season it ceded a couple of individual games to MLB Network).

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