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Stocks End With Modest Gains

NEW YORK – Falling energy prices gave stocks a modest lift Friday as Wall Street set aside worries about interest rates and a weak forecast from Intel Corp (INTC). But the gains weren’t enough to help the major indexes, which ended the week with losses. The Dow Jones industrial average …

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Rice to Oversee U.S. Assistance for Foreign Reconstruction

WASHINGTON – President Bush on Wednesday designated Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to take charge of overseeing U.S. assistance to countries recovering from war or civil strife. The move was the latest by the Bush administration, which in the wake of the postwar chaos in Iraq, has increased its emphasis …

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Sen. Clinton Tours New Orleans

NEW ORLEANS – Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton toured areas devastated by Hurricane Katrina and expressed concern Sunday that efforts to repair the city’s levees might not be enough to protect New Orleans’ residents from future hurricanes. “There is a need to go back and find out what went wrong,” Clinton …

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