Bush tells U.S. Iraq sacrifice 'worth it' - APNews

Brain Exercise Is Key to Healthy Mind - APNews

"Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine." - Hosea Ballou

Wal-Mart billionaire dies in plane crash - TimesOnline
Wal-Mart Heir John Walton Dies in Crash - APNews

"There are three ways to accomplish something: Do it yourself; employ
someone to do it for you; or forbid your children from doing it." - Anonymous

"It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech." - Mark Twain

Legg Mason Agrees to Buy Citigroup's Unit, Permal Hedge Funds - Bloomberg
Legg Mason to Pay Up to $1.39 Billion for Permal Hedge Funds - Bloomberg
Citigroup withdraws from fund management in $3.7bn deal to streamline its operations - Times
Citigroup, Legg Mason swap assets in $3.7 bln deal - Reuters

"The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas." - Linus Pauling

The case for hedge fund oversight - SPTimes.com

Yoshiaki Tsutsumi Case Puts Japan's Lords of Business on Notice - WashingtonPost

Supreme Court Rules Cities May Seize Homes - APNews

Singaporean firm to build highest condo - BangkokPost

House prices, after the fall - Economist
Hedge Funds and the Real Estate bubble - Forbes

Hedge Fund Growth: Good News Or Bad? - Forbes

Bailey Coates Hedge Fund to Close After Declining 20% in 2005 - Bloomberg
Big hedge fund caught out and braced for $1bn repayment - TheIndependent

Tsang declared HK's new leader - BBCNews

First Woman Gets Silver Star Since WW II - APNews

Prosecutors: Mother, son ran hedge fund scam; NYU got $1.25 million - APConnecticut.

Moderate Quake Shakes Southern California - APNews.

Taiwan's gangster-turned-preacher - BBCTaipei.

Erotic verse sheds light on 'playboy Lama' - BBCNews

Some see the beginning of the end for oil reserves - BillingsGazette

"To dream anything that you want to dream, that is the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that you want to do, that is the strength of the human will. To trust yourself, to test your limits, that is the courage to succeed." - Bernard Edmonds

Ex-UBS team to launch new Asian fund of funds - FinanceAsia.com

"I am like any other man. All I do is supply a demand."-- Al Capone (1899-1947), U.S. Gangster

Michael Jackson Returns Home a Free Man - APNews.

Hedge-fund investors face upside-down odds - TorontoFreePress.

An Old Farmer's Advice:
Your fences need to be horse-high, pig-tight and bull-strong.
Keep skunks and bankers and lawyers at a distance.
Life is simpler when you plow around the stump.
A bumble bee is considerably faster than a John Deere tractor.
Words that soak into your ears are whispered...not yelled.
Meanness don't jes' happen overnight.
Forgive your enemies. It messes up their heads.
Do not corner something that you know is meaner than you.
It don't take a very big person to carry a grudge.
You cannot unsay a cruel word.
Every path has a few puddles.
When you wallow with pigs, expect to get dirty.
The best sermons are lived, not preached.
Most of the stuff people worry about ain't never gonna happen anyway.
Don't judge folks by their relatives.
Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think back, you'll enjoy it a second time.
Don't interfere with somethin' that ain't botherin' you none.
Timing has a lot to do with the outcome of a rain dance.
If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop diggin'.
Sometimes you get, and sometimes you get got.
The biggest troublemaker you'll probably ever have to deal with, watches you from the mirror every mornin'.
Always drink upstream from the herd.
Good judgment comes from experience, and a lotta that comes from bad judgment.
Lettin' the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier than puttin' it back in.
If you get to thinkin' you're a person of some influence, try orderin' somebody else's dog around. Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly. Leave the rest to God.

Diabetes Care Improved Over Last Decade - APNews.

Tyson takes loss sitting down - CNN.

"There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why? I dream of things that never were, and ask why not."~ Robert F. Kennedy

Big Mac index - Economist.

The euro and its troubles - Economist.

Hamilton Naki, famous African surgeon.

"If you're going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy; God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't." - Hyman G. Rickover

Citigroup to pay $2 bln in Enron lawsuit - Reuters

WHO DO THEY THINK THEY ARE FOOLING? - Mike Hoy - Kitco

Abuse Cost for Catholic Dioceses Tops $1Billion - APNews.

Financial Times: How Investors Can Lower Risk When Choosing a Hedge Fund - Janet Tavakoli

"The pupil, who is never required to do what he cannot do, never does what he can do." - John Stuart Mill

APNews: Citigroup Data of 3.9M Customers Is Lost.

APNews: GM Plans to Cut 25,000 U.S. Jobs by 2008.

Bloomberg: LG.Philips signs $5 billion flat-screen deal with Hewlett.

Kitco: IT’S ONLY THE BEGINNING FOR URANIUM - Richard Appel.

Kitco: All that EURO-HULLABALOO - Alex Waller.
Kitco: LESS TO THE DOLLAR THAN MEETS THE EYE - Dan Denning.

Christian Alliance: The Kingdom of God - Father Jake.

APNews: Actress Anne Bancroft Dies at Age 73.

Reuters: Greenspan, trouble ahead for hedge funds.
Stuff: Greenspan issues hedge fund warning.
ResourceInvestor: Hedge fund investors warned that best years are over.
Telegraph: Hedge funds face tougher times, says Greenspan.
Australian: Big Al's bass joins chorus of warning on hedge hogs.
Reuters: Hedge funds survive May by tracking market trends.

"Forever is composed of nows." - Emily Dickinson

KITCO: THE FUTURE OF THE DOLLAR - Clyde Harrison.

SportingLife: FEDERER PRAISE FOR NADAL.
SportingLife: PUERTA BACKING NADAL ON GRASS.

"A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one's life is cold and bare he can blame none but himself." - Louis L'Amour

Telegraph: Veteran John Mack joins hedge fund.
Washington Post: John Mack to Head Up Hedge Fund.

People's Daily: Singapore PM: Containing China is short-sighted.

ABCNews: Henin-Hardenne Cruises to French Title.

"I used to think, now I just read The Economist." Larry Ellison, CEO Oracle.

APNews: Ky. Diocese to Pay $120M in Sex Abuse Case.

Economist: EU consitution, dead, but not yet buried.

Economist: Euro, can this union be saved?

CBSNEWS: Court Overturns Arthur Andersen Conviction.
Economist: Andersen death sentence commuted—too late.

REUTERS: Obesity must be treated as disease - expert.

APNews: Dutch Voters Reject EU Constitution.

Economist: Cars in China.

APNews: Calif. Landslide Sends 17 Homes Crashing.

"You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation." - Plato