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High Cost of College: Student loans and their myriad associated problems are examined by the Wall Street Journal, New York Times and Washington Post. Some lawmakers want to rein in new programs that forgive student loan debt after a set period of time, as they're becoming far too popular and thus too expensive, the Journal reports.The debt-forgiveness plans have a worthy goal, the WSJ article says: no one should have to "[pay]...

Nortel Networks is preparing to spend more than $1 million on technology for an upcoming court fight over $7.3 billion raised in its global liquidation, a trial that will be broadcast live—but not to the public.

Only “authorized users” will be able to view the Webcast of the fight for the failed telecommunication company’s billions, according to an outline of the trial technology plan filed with the courts overseeing Nortel’s dissolution.

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JPM Shuffle: Shao Zili, JPMorgan Chase's chairman and chief executive in China, will step down from those positions and take over as vice chairman of the Asia-Pacific region as soon as a replacement is found. The unofficial official word from the bank Â-- anony-mice leaked a memo Â-- is that Shao wanted "to return to a regional role." Of course, it's hard not to correlate the departure to federal authorities' ongoing investigation...

A bankruptcy judge ruled Thursday that former American Airlines parent AMR Corp. doesn’t have the unilateral right to terminate health and welfare benefits for nearly 47,000 union and nonunion retirees. Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review article via The Wall Street Journal.