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http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=89229710&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK PacWest Funding's CEO watched in late 2007 as rival mortgage brokerages, banks and collaborators collapsed under the weight of the declining housing market.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=89229644&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK U.S. officials pressured Afghan President Hamid Karzai to remove a former warlord from atop the energy and water ministry a year ago because of corruption and ineffectiveness, and threatened to end aid unless he went.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=89229613&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Mario Lemieux couldn't find the net. That doesn't mean he's lost his scoring touch.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=89229612&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The U.S. dollar was weaker against the euro, pound and yen on Friday during thin year-end trading.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=89229558&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A Canadian team coached by NHL great Mark Messier lost to SKA St. Petersburg 4-3 Friday in the final of the Spengler Cup.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=89229556&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Brett Favre has joined the Minnesota Vikings on the field for practice, though he's still not participating in drills.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=89229555&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Dazzling fireworks lit up Australia's Sydney Harbor, communist Vietnam held a rare, Western-style countdown to the new year, and Japanese revelers released balloons carrying notes with people's hopes and dreams as the world ushered in 2011.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=89229554&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Billy the Kid, the Old West outlaw who killed at least three lawmen and tried to cut a deal from jail with territorial authorities, won't be pardoned, Gov. Bill Richardson said Friday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=89229552&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The Belarusian KGB has been searching the homes and offices of independent journalists following an election that handed the authoritarian president a fourth term, journalists and a media watchdog group said.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=89229459&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK In a secret operation to secure nuclear material, the United States has helped Ukraine send to Russia enough uranium to build two atomic bombs.