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  • (UK) Royal Mail to be sold off by next April in biggest privatization for over two decades

    04/25/2013 8:37:19 PM PDT · by Olog-hai · 4 replies
    Daily Telegraph (UK) ^ | 6:58PM BST 25 Apr 2013 | Christopher Hope
    People will be offered the chance to buy shares in Royal Mail in the next 12 months, ministers have told MPs. The formal announcement from Business minister Michael Fallon starts the clock on what is set to be the biggest privatization for over 20 years. … Royal Mail is expected to raise between £2 billion ($3.1 billion) and £3 billion ($4.6 billion) when it is privatized. Any selloff will rival the “Tell Sid” privatizations of British Gas and BP in the mid-1980s Thatcher government. …
  • Too Much Information - Sometimes people should keep their private lives to themselves.

    05/04/2005 9:17:23 PM PDT · by CHARLITE · 59 replies · 2,975+ views
    OPINION JOURNAL.COM ^ | MAY 5, 2005 | PEGGY NOONAN
    This is the demystification of illness, especially cancer. It is being demystified by the number of people who have lately come forward to tell people they were ill and to ask for their help. Tony Snow of Fox is one, Peter Jennings of ABC another. Melissa Etheridge came out at the recent Grammy Awards and rocked the house with her brilliance, energy and bald-from-chemo head. And there is Laura Ingraham. Laura was, as pretty much everyone who reads this column knows, recently diagnosed with breast cancer. At first, like everyone in such circumstances, she was shocked. Then she did an...