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NEW YORK Nov. 9, 2009--Standard & Poor's investment-grade and speculative-grade composite spreads tightened on Friday to 223 basis points and 703 bps, respectively.

Martha Morales, the evening supervisor at the Webster Apartments, a large, brick home to 370 women of varying ages and occupations, strode down a long corridor lined with identical doors.

My friends and I have formed our own "anything goes" club and one of the non-rules is why not have a banana split for dinner ? Our little cashmere mafia got started one night after a lengthy discussion over chardonnay, more chardonnay, chardonnay and appetizers about how we have all been brainwashed into thinking that one must eat certain foods for ...

The lead producers of the Broadway revival " Brighton Beach Memoirs " released a brief statement this morning about their decision to close the Neil Simon play tomorrow - " a week after it opened - " and to scuttle plans next month to mount the companion play, Mr.

Another BusinessWeek chief is not making the move to Bloomberg. Keith Fox, the magazine's president, will stay at McGraw-Hill , he told staffers Friday afternoon.

Ithaca Cornell Police are looking for a male who struck a Cornell student following a verbal dispute late Thursday evening.

Constellation Brands-Marvin Sands Performing Arts Center and its concert promoter broke off their operational agreement this week.

Whole of 2009 looks like it's off 7% By Michael Malone -- Broadcasting & Cable, 10/26/2009 2:29:24 PM McGraw-Hill reported third quarter broadcast revenue to be $19.1 million in the quarter, down 23.6% from the same quarter last year.

As one longtime member of the Binghamton University Athletic Club, I fully support Lois B. DeFleur as president of BU.

The Nation has covered a few of them in its arts pages. I've got two here. The first was the story of Thomas Chatterton , an eighteenth-century writer who claimed to have discovered the literary works of a fifteenth-century poet priest named Thomas Rowley.

Ralph Stanley is one of the last, and surely the purest, of the traditional country musicians.

From left, Dave Hoselton and Pat Klinzmann meet with Mac McGraw Wednesday afternoon about issues regarding the gun club.

Oil prices reached a fresh one-year high above $75 a barrel Thursday in Asia on a weaker U.S. dollar and growing investor optimism about an economic recovery.

Contest winners from around the country got to hear material from the country crooner's new album.

A scene from the musical "Academy." "Academy," one of the productions generating buzz at this year's New York Musical Theater Festival, could be described as Faust meets "Lord of the Flies" in the suburbs: two seniors at an all-boys prep school make a bet on whether a freshman will break the school's rules in order to succeed.

News, views and reviews about the multi-talented women of the musical theatre and the concert/cabaret stage.

Some announcers will remain. The Metropolitan Opera will still be heard on Saturdays.

Strengthening stock markets in Europe helped push oil prices to near $68 a barrel Wednesday despite data showing U.S. crude inventories rose for a third week, suggesting consumer demand remains weak.

Grammer's Hank Pryor is a walking balloon, a man so puffed up that he lives to be punctured.

It's time for Elmira College's annual homecoming event, a town and gown affair known as the Octagon Fair, which will be held this year from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday on campus.