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IBM to Buy Ascential in Database War

NEW YORK – IBM Monday said it had agreed to buy Ascential Software Corp. (ASCL) for $1.1 billion, seeking to narrow the gap with rival Oracle Corp. (ORCL) in the database business. International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) said the acquisition would complement its information integration business, a unit that produced …

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Former GOP Staffer Shapes Social Security Message

WASHINGTON – Ten years ago, Charles Blahous (search) was a congressional staffer with a knack for numbers and a passion for baseball. He spent his free time tackling issues like the improbability of Joe DiMaggio’s 56-game hitting streak. These days, Blahous is more likely to be calculating the odds that …

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Terror Suspects Admit Yemen Embassy Plot

SAN’A, Yemen – Eight suspected Al Qaeda members, including an Iraqi with Swiss nationality, admitted in court Monday to planning attacks on Western embassies here, while six convicted terrorists were sentenced to two years in jail in another case. The trials were the latest in a series of Yemeni cases …

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