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My girlfriend just got in from Manila last night and was jazzed because she got to talk with the Madame President on the flight to San Francisco. I have already met her husband who is second cousin to my girlfriend.

In Financial News Today..................

....staff at the New York office of the bankrupt investment bank Lehman Brothers will share a bonus pool set aside for them that is worth $2.5 billion, Barclays Bank, which is buying the business, confirmed last night.

A spokesman for Barclays said the $2.5 billion bonus pool in New York had been set aside before Lehman Brothers filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy in the United States a week ago.