| Investors focus on earnings, not Ukraine, Gaza Strip
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 Concern for profits, sales at U.S. companies outweighs the what-ifs of geopolitical issues After a few jitters over the crises in the Middle East and Ukraine, investors have used last week's stock market sell-off to buy stocks at slightly cheaper prices rather than ducking for safety.
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| Haugh: Jerry Reinsdorf's helping hand to Tony La Russa
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 White Sox chairman regretted allowing firing of manager in 1986 so much he helped him land with A's, and rest is Hall of Fame history White Sox Chairman Jerry Reinsdorf regretted allowing the firing of Tony La Russa in 1986 so much he helped him land with the A's. The rest is Hall of Fame history.
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| Chicago School of Professional Psychology sued over its LA campus
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 Doctoral students contend they were steered to well-regarded institution's 'diploma mill' The Chicago School of Professional Psychology had been Elizabeth Schmidt's first choice when she began considering graduate school. And six months after submitting her application, she was accepted into its doctoral program.
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| Low-income housing fund teams with developer on subsidized rentals
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 Project aims to help stem loss of affordable apartments in Chicago A Chicago developer that has been among the most active firms behind the conversion of dilapidated, very-low-income housing into market-rate apartments is teaming with the city to offer more than four dozen subsidized units to Chicagoans who make no more than $15,200 a year.
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| From Theo Parrish to Palmistry, New Tracks Chase the Soul in the Machine
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 Image: Palmistry still/grab Motherboard's listen deep tag will reveal a whole lot of icy, darksided sounds. In some sense, that's just the flavor of the times—from nightmarish EDM festival scenes to the tape-only releases being hucked at your local living room noise show—but, in another sense, it ignores this whole other side of dance/electronic music that is pure warmth and soul and, arguably, was here first anyways. The four tracks/videos below come from a diverse range of artists: Nigerian-born house songwriter/vocalist Wayne Snow, London dancehall-qua-pop producer Palmistry, and Theo Parrish, the Detroit techno/house producer who, after two decades in the studio and something like a hundred releases, continues to do no wrong. And, finally, where it all started:
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