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• A GRAVE MISTAKE: ENGRAVER BOTCHES KOCH’S BIRTH YEAR

  How’s Ed Koch’s grave site doing? Horrible! The former mayor’s tombstone at Trinity Church in Washington Heights was mistakenly engraved with the wrong birth year — Dec. 12, 1942, instead of 1924. The gaffe is enough to have Koch — a proud World War II v...

• GET A WHIFF OF THIS

  It smells like money. Perfume maker Coty Inc. priced its initial public offering at $17.50 — the midpoint of the proposed range. The New York company’s IPO raised about $1 billion for existing shareholders. The IPO would make Coty the largest IPO for an ...

• IT’S SHOW TIME

  Sprint is calling Charlie Ergen’s hand — forcing the Dish telecom billionaire to show his cards, or fold. America’s third-largest wireless carrier has broken off talks with Dish, frustrated the Englewood, Colo., pay TV company has not provided committed ...

• HILLARY’S SORRY STATE OF AFFAIRS

  WASHINGTON — A State Department whistleblower has accused high-ranking staff of a massive coverup — including keeping a lid on findings that members of then-Secretary Hillary Clinton’s security detail and the Belgian ambassador solicited prostitutes. A c...

• A DRAG, COUGH & E-CIG LATER, I’M VAPORIZED!

  I took smoking lessons last Thursday. I’ve never smoked a cigarette before and let me tell you, it is not as easy as it looks. Why would I do something this stupid? Because tobacco giant Reynolds American was rolling out one of those “safe” electronic ci...

World View

• SEC to Seek More Admissions of Guilt

  By Andrew Ackerman WASHINGTON—U.S. securities regulators plan to require certain defendants to admit to wrongdoing as a condition of settling securities-fraud charges, Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Mary Jo White said Tuesday. The move marks...

• Cyprus Asks Creditors to Help Biggest Bank

  By Alkman Granitsas And Michalis Persianis NICOSIA, Cyprus—Cyprus has asked its European partners to help ease a cash crunch at the island's biggest lender, saying this spring's bank-rescue deal was struck "without careful preparation" and was imperiling...

• Chinese Giant Eyes Rio Assets in Canada

  By Chuin-Wei Yap BEIJING—In a sign that China hasn't lost its appetite for global iron ore assets despite an economic slowdown, state-controlled mining giant China Minmetals Corp. said Tuesday it is considering a bid for Rio Tinto PLC's $4 billion Canadi...

• CNPC, Partners to Finalize Tajikistan Oil & Gas Deal

  By Yvonne Lee China National Petroleum Corp. and France's Total SA are ready to finalize an agreement with Tethys Petroleum Ltd. to develop oil-and-gas assets in Tajikistan, a person with direct knowledge of the deal told The Wall Street Journal. Senior ...

• Credit-Raters, Morgan Stanley Settle with Florida Over Crisis-Era Deal

  By Jeannette Neumann The two largest credit-rating firms and Morgan Stanley paid the state of Florida $9.5 million as part of a confidential settlement earlier this year, according to documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. Moody's Investors Servi...

More Reports

• The Rhubarb Patch: Is it time for politicians to get out of the pension business ?

  For Wednesday's print column, in advance of the special legislative session in Springfield on Wednesday to take another stab at pension reform, I initiated an email dialogue with Anders Lindall, spokesman for the local chapter of the American Federation ...

• If There's a War on Men, Who's Winning Exactly?

  Wall Street Journal columnist James Taranto is not a rape apologist. He's not a woman hater. He only attacks sexual assault victims to help other women. In a Tuesday column, Taranto says that the effort to change how sexual assault is prosecuted in the m...

• UConn's Manuel to serve on council of ADs

  NCAA president Mark Emmert told the Wall Street Journal's Rachel Bachman this past weekend that he would form a council of 10 athletic directors who would meet regularly with NCAA brass starting in July. The names making up that group of 10 were unveiled...

• What Is This 'Candy Crush' Game and Is It About to Go the Way of Zynga?

  "Maker of 'Candy Crush Saga' Plans IPO," reports the Wall Street Journal today, which very possibly makes zero sense to you. What's Candy Crush? you might ask. How does something with a silly name like that get big enough for a public offering? And did y...

• Wall Street Banks Still Engaged in Pre-Crash Shenanigans

  Financial reformers cheered this week's news that Wall Street banks were unable to find buyers for a certain type of risky financial product—called a synthetic Collateralized Debt Obligation, or synthetic CDO. But if you think the big banks have given up...

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