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  • Walter O’Brien, BB&T Equities Chief Who Was Mentor, Dies at 46

    Walter J. O’Brien III, head of equity sales and trading at BB&T Corp. and a mentor to finance-minded graduates of his alma mater, the University of Richmond in Virginia, has died. He was 46.

  • Lacker Says Government Should Be Ready to Let Big Banks Fail

    Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond President Jeffrey Lacker said plans to limit the size or change the structure of the largest financial institutions must be made with the intent of allowing a failure without government aid.

  • Exchange Disaster Tests, MasterCard, Philips: Compliance

    U.S. exchanges and some brokers will be required for the first time to conduct coordinated trading tests to show they can recover from natural disasters or terrorist acts, according to a rule proposed by regulators.

  • Pfizer Neurontin Class Improperly Denied, Court Says

    Pfizer Inc. may have to face lawsuits by insurers alleging the company improperly marketed the epilepsy drug Neurontin after an appeals court found the cases were improperly denied class-action status.

  • Obama Tells Virginia Voters to Press U.S. Congress for Action on Jobs Plan

    President Barack Obama campaigned to sell his $447 billion jobs proposal, telling voters in the battleground state of Virginia that they deserve action on the economy and encouraging them to pressure lawmakers.

  • A Harvard Man’s Critique of Affirmative Action

    Stuart Taylor Jr. was in my law school class. Or, more accurately, I was in his law school class, since he graduated at the top of the class and I graduated.

  • BP Gulf Spill Trial to Start as Settlement Pressure Increases

    BP Plc, Transocean Ltd. and Halliburton Co., with billions of dollars on the line, are set to find out from a federal judge who among them is to blame for the April 20, 2010, explosion and sinking of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico.

  • Buddhist Packing Bond Pistol Shows American Embrace of Guns

    Robin Natanel picks up a compact black pistol, barrel pointed down range. Gripping the gun with both hands, left foot forward, she raises the semi-automatic and methodically squeezes off five shots. The first one creases the left edge of a red bull’s-eye on a target 25 feet away. The four others paint a three-inch pattern around the first. If the target were a person’s head or heart, he’d probably be dead.

  • Glaxo Accord Said to Spur Lawyer Fight Over Fees

    GlaxoSmithKline Plc’s settlement of lawsuits over its Avandia drug triggered a challenge from nine law firms to a bid by lead attorneys for almost three-quarters of a $143 million fee fund, including one seeking about $2,700 per hour, according to two people familiar with the matter.

  • Women’s Path to Ground Combat Strewn With Obstacles

    The path to the front combat lines for women in the U.S. military may be long and complicated by demands from Army infantry to the Marines to the Special Operations Forces that killed Osama bin Laden.

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