08/08/08 - The Greenwich News Wire For Tuesday

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Mom's 'green-eyed thinking' makes good idea for kids' book

Greenwich Time

"I wanted something that was fun not so doom-and-gloom," the 42-year-old Greenwich resident said during an interview yesterday. Inspired by her 4-year-old ...

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Town Police Department has done itself proud

Greenwich Time

In January, Greenwich police also cracked the case of a Bronx man who had
been murdered and his body dumped in the backcountry. The back-to-back
successes ...

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College notes

Stamford Advocate

Caroline Simmons (Greenwich Academy) was on the Ivy League Honor Roll after scoring three goals and adding three assists as Harvard (7-3) got past Vermont. ...

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http://www.stamfordadvocate.com/ci_8846974

THE RAW GREENWICH NEWS FEED:

1. Friends, peers recall former first selectman

   NewsTimesLive.com

   ... would freeze and you'd have to go across the street to ... well, you know." A retiree after many years at then Greenwich-based American Can Co., where he served as chief financial officer, first selectman was the only elected office Brown pursued. ...

2. Amann Attacks Proposed Package Delivery Tax

   Hartford Courant

   Saying he had been caught by surprise, House Speaker James Amann spoke strongly Monday against a legislative proposal to charge an extra 6 percent sales tax on delivery charges for packages sent to homes and ...

3. Simons, Mandel Post Biggest Losses as Hedge Funds Hit by Markets' Shakeout

   Bloomberg Business News

   ... fundamentals, a skill he learned at Julian Robertson 's Tiger Management LLC. He left Tiger in 1997 to start Greenwich, Connecticut-based Lone Pine Capital LLC the following year. Simons's Renaissance Technologies Corp., based in East Setauket, New ...

   
   

4. Shootout Event To Host Hoops Hopefuls From Across the U.S.

   The Daily News

   ... basketball games in the eight years that it's been here." Also, he said he was there when his son Paul, of Greenwich, Conn., helped convince University of Memphis coach John Calipari to move his family to Memphis. "I was on the conference call when ...

5. Aging process quickly hits homes in Las Vegas

   Los Angeles Times

   ... In most of the country, prized neighborhoods become even more desirable over time (think Beverly Hills or Greenwich, Conn.). But Las Vegas isn't about stately trees, old lawns and older money, said Gene Moehring, chairman of the University of Nevada ...

6. Treasury prices fall in quiet session

   Houston Chronicle

   ... that showed the biggest monthly decline in jobs in five years. David Ader, head of government bond strategy at RBS Greenwich Capital in Greenwich, Conn., said investors' modest moves Monday showed they weren't panicked about news such as the jobs ...

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