7 Jan 2009 at 7:15am Brian Laliberte was promoted to president of Illuminations Inc., a Petaluma retailer of candles and home decor products. He was COO. Dev Mahadevan was appointed CFO of Doctors Medical Center of San Pablo and Pinole. He was CFO of Alameda Hospital ...
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7 Jan 2009 at 3:54am I recently watched the film version of Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 . I had resisted seeing it ? or reading the novel, which was published in 1953 ? because I thought I already knew the drill (and I was right): books are good (very, very good ...
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6 Jan 2009 at 11:41am A philanthropic bid by a Hong Kong tycoon to preserve the one-time residence of kung fu legend Bruce Lee and transform it into a major tourist attraction honoring the film icon was approved on Tuesday. The green light comes after a long-running ...
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4 Jan 2009 at 1:38pm One benefit of watching NFL football is it gives you plenty of time to read the morning papers. Over at the San Francisco Chronicle, Willie Brown continues his defense of Ron Blagojevich, saying his attempted appointment of Roland Burris was "worthy ...
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4 Jan 2009 at 3:58am Sunday, January 4, 2009 Sponsored by Whitney Davis of Zephyr Real Estate and Tina Leonardi of Guarantee Mortgage, 6-7:30 p.m., Opera Plaza, 601 Van Ness Ave., Suite P, San Francisco, free, reservation required, (415) 533-3990. Sponsored by Kevin Peay ...
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2 Jan 2009 at 12:11am NEW YORK (AP) - While problems in banks' mortgage portfolios had surfaced some time before, 2008 was the year in which a landslide of deteriorating credit and concerns over capital took down industry stalwarts like Washington Mutual Inc. and Wachovia ...
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1 Jan 2009 at 9:31am Wells Fargo & Co said it has completed its roughly $12.7 billion purchase of Wachovia Corp, a big bet that it properly assessed the risks in Wachovia's huge book of mortgage and real estate loans. The merger closed on Wednesday and more than doubles ...
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