Tax all graduates, says former education minister Baroness Blackstone - Daily Telegraph
The charge should be levied on all graduates to enable more schoolchildren to stay in education beyond the age of 18, it was claimed. Baroness Blackstone, an education minister between 1997 and 2001, admitted such a move would prove hugely unpopular ...

Four shot, one killed, in separate shootings on SE Side - Chicago Sun-Times
Four people were shot Tuesday evening in two separate shootings on the Southeast Side, including a drive-by shooting that injured a 9-year-old boy and also the fatal shooting of a 19-year-old woman outside a Southeast Side hospital. Police say the ...

Weather Channel sale could come in 2 days - Reuters
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Landmark Communications could announce the sale of the Weather Channel to a group made up of NBC Universal, Blackstone Group LP (BX.N: Quote , Profile , Research , Stock Buzz ) and Bain Capital in the next day or two, sources ...

PHH deal done in by tight credit - Baltimore Sun
The collapse of PHH Corp.'s deal to sell itself is a lesson for these credit-crunched times: If you're in the mortgage business, don't count on anyone getting the money to buy you - no matter how decent your prospects look. PHH agreed in March to ...

BETS ARE OFF ON CASINO BUYOUT - New York Post
The final days are closing in on Wall Street's once golden buyout era with the scrapping of another big deal - the $6.1 billion buyout of casino and racing giant Penn National Gaming. It marked the collapse of a staggering 291 mergers since the start ...

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