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Thursday, February 5, 2009

02/05/09 The Raw Greenwich News Feed (Updated)

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Greenwich Congressman Jim Himes will be in Norwalk this week to celebrate President Barack Obama's approval of the children's federal health insurance bill.

Buffett cancels annual event with biographer .....

Warren Buffett peeved over The Snowball?
Pundit Review
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) -- Billionaire Warren Buffett worked closely with Alice Schroeder during the five years that she researched his life story, but the author says her relationship with the investor has cooled since the book's release last fall.

And Schroeder says Buffett told her last month that he would no longer attend a dinner she's hosted since 1998 on the eve of Berkshire Hathaway Inc.'s annual meeting in Omaha each spring.

"We've had very little contact since the book has been published. A few e-mails, and that's it," Schroeder said Wednesday in an interview from her home in Greenwich, Conn ......

The Bernie Madoff Client List Is Made Public
Time
... clarification on allowing his employees to file individually. It is known that feeder funds such as Fairfield Greenwich, Ascot Partners, and Chais Investments, which are listed in the court document, had thousands of individual investors who placed ...

This Weekend
The Wilton Bulletin
... The 92nd Bendheim Member Juried Exhibition will open Thursday, Feb. 5, in the Bendheim Art Gallery at 299 Greenwich Avenue, Greenwich. A reception with the artists will take place Friday, Feb. 6, from 6 to 9 p.m. and the show, which has been ...

Nymex Gas Rises After Report of Larger-Than-Normal U.S. Inventory Decline
Bloomberg
... next week. a oeIt has been unbelievably cold in the Midwest,a said Tom Orr , research director at Weeden & Co. in Greenwich, Connecticut. a oeI dona t see a catalyst to take gas much higher.a Natural gas for March delivery rose 5.7 cents, or 1.2 ...

Will M'soft make its own smart phone?
EETimes
... that Microsoft is planning to launch a smartphone," wrote Rob Sandserson and Mark McKechnie of Broadpoint AmTech (Greenwich, Conn.). Not so fast, said Rick Doherty, principal of market watcher Envisioneering (Seaford, NY). "We expect a Windows ...

Grieving a child should not be an individual burden
Darien News-Review
... may feel lost, angry, guilty and deeply sad over the loss. Family Centers, with locations in Darien, Stamford and Greenwich, is the nonprofit umbrella organization for specific programs that aim to help these families and allow them an outlet for ...

Downturn sucks the luster off Valentine's Day....

Flash Is Out For Wealthy On Valentine's Day
The Post Chronicle
... parent Richemont posted a 12 percent drop in sales in the fourth quarter of 2008. In the hedge fund epicenter of Greenwich, Connecticut, buyers are looking at traditional white diamonds that are easier to match with clothes, said John Green, chief ...

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GHS cheerleaders ready to compete ......

Family Fun: Dinosaurs, Big Red Dog And Disney
Hartford Courant
... examining the process through which artists reconstruct the world of dinosaurs. The museum is at 1 Museum Drive in Greenwich. Admission is $7 for adults, $6 for seniors and students. Members and children under 5 are free. For hours and a list of ...

ANALYSIS: A bitter pill for the public, but...
Times Online
... Many of the proposed bonuses wouldn't even go to British bankers. Many of GBM's workers are based in Greenwich, Connecticut, and financial centres around the globe. The bonus culture is seriously tarnished. It was the nature of bonuses - ...

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