Company is his personal banker and largest contributor.

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Goldman Ties Enrich Romney

Under renewed pressure to release his personal income tax returns, Mitt Romney on Tuesday acknowledged that he pays an effective tax rate of about 15 percent.

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Romney Says His Tax Rate Is ‘Probably’ 15 Percent

President Obama is scheduled to make a rare visit to the Pentagon on Thursday to unveil details of a strategic review for the U.S. military that will consolidate missions and downsize the ambitions of the armed forces as they adjust to a new era of austerity, officials said. Obama, who will be joined by Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta and Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, will place his personal imprint on a new military strategy that Pentagon officials have been preparing for months in anticipation of the largest cuts to the defense budget since the end of the Cold War. Read full article > >

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Obama to unveil austere Pentagon strategy

As a flood of family photos, videos and holiday greetings hits the Internet this time of year, online users will be swarming the social networking and photo-sharing sites that have become the personal scrapbooks of our time. But in the shaky and often promiscuous business of the Web, where companies fold and merge at astonishing speed, you can’t always trust that those sites will take long-term care of your digital treasures. Read full article > >

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As Web sites come and go, so too could the information you entrust them with

Newt Gingrich’s skill in facing criticisms about his personal and public life head-on has only swelled support for his campaign.

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Political Memo: Flaws and All, Newt Gingrich Says Life Is an Open Book

The multimillion dollar campaign features the personal stories of members who defy stereotyping.

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Mormon Ad Campaign Seeks to Improve Perceptions

The social network will ask users to opt into future changes to the way it uses their personal information according to a report.

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Facebook privacy overhaul, report

Reggie Love, a key member of the Obama entourage, is planning to leave the White House by the end of the year, people close to the administration said. Love, 30, is a popular, gregarious figure in the White House. A onetime forward for the Duke Blue Devils basketball team, Love started out as a staff assistant in Obama’s Senate office after college, rising to become his personal assistant, known as the “body man.” Read full article > >

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Reggie Love, Obama ‘body man,’ to leave White House by year’s end

Authors, like books, should not be judged by their covers. Consider Joan Didion. At nearly 77, with bones like toothpicks and a spectral face hidden behind large-framed glasses, she looks fragile. She is anything but. Although she made a name for herself decades ago by writing cool, frank commentaries about the cultural movements in 1960s California, she is more recently known for her personal losses. In December 2003, her husband of nearly 40 years, fellow writer John Gregory Dunne, died of a heart attack while she was fixing him a salad. Didion wrote about his death in “ The Year of Magical Thinking” (Knopf, 2005), which was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for biography or autobiography. Read full article > >

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Jackson’s Deathbed to Be Auctioned

Boxing great Joe Frazier, who went toe to toe three times with Muhammad Ali, including the famous “Thrilla in Manila” fight, is seriously ill with liver cancer and is in hospice, his personal and business manager said Saturday.

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Ex-champ Joe Frazier has liver cancer

The first time he ran for president, Mitt Romney chose again and again to confront the suspicions and prejudices held by many in the Republican Party’s evangelical base about his Mormon faith. This time, Romney is focusing relentlessly on the economy and is conspicuous in how rarely he talks about God. He no longer tries to convince evangelical voters that he is as Christian as they are, that Jesus Christ is his personal savior and that he, too, reads the Gideon Bible before bed. Read full article > >

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Romney, his Mormonism a campaign issue again, condemns religious bigotry

In “ Homeland ,” Showtime’s astonishingly good and tightly riveted new drama set amid Washington’s classified war on terrorism, Claire Danes stars as Carrie Mathison, a CIA agent racked with guilt over what she considers her personal failings to recognize clues that might have prevented the Sept. 11 attacks. She’s been trying to make up for it ever since, even though her mentor, Saul Berenson (Mandy Patinkin), constantly reminds her that the failure was shared across agencies. Read full article > >

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Showtime’s gripping ‘Homeland’: A Marine comes home, but is he now a terrorist?

What would you do to improve your shot at the MBA program of your dreams? Start a small business? Or a nonprofit, perhaps? Travel the world to bulk up your personal narrative? Maybe even drop $10,000 on a prep course? If you’re aiming for the Stanford Graduate School of Business, you may well be tempted to do all of the above. “From the classmate who climbed Mount Everest to the one who started a microfinance organization for individual entrepreneurs, these are the people who are your classmates and will ultimately become your friends — for life,” says a prerecorded message from Stefan, a Stanford MBA student from Belgium who keeps you company while you’re on hold with the admissions office. Read full article > >

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Would you climb any mountain to get into MBA program of your dreams?

Frustration with rumours about her personal life are among the details revealed by the official release of former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin’s e-mails.

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Details emerge from Palin e-mails