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Ferrari really missed the boat on its new car, the California. Not with the vehicle itself, which is brilliant, but on the name. Yes, it’s a convertible, and perfect for The Golden State, but there are plenty of cars like that, so that’s hardly a unique selling point. Click here …

We think of Christmas as a time of year when people have places to go and are surrounded by good friends and loving family. I hope it’s that way for you. But the first Christmas wasn’t like that at all. It is the story of a lonely, scared, unmarried and …

From individual investors to small businesses to doctor’s cooperatives — and even to the town itself — Fairfield, Conn., gave its money to Bernard Madoff. And now it’s left with a pile of old statements telling investors how much money they never really had. Madoff, the former chairman of Nasdaq, …

So I’m at this Wall Street event, and all of these big muckety-mucks are yapping about the market. Quite a few bears, I might add. Quite a few. And they’re all sounding positively brilliant. “We just don’t see any constructive signs out there,” says one. Another chimes in, “even at …

And now the most absorbing two minutes in television, the latest from the political grapevine: Miss the Grapevine? Watch it! And the Saga Continues…Reverberations continue from that Minnesota Senate race, where it now turns out that even as Democrats were demanding that Republican nominee Norm Coleman cease all campaign activities, …

WASHINGTON – The campaign for the vice presidency has been rife with “Where’s Waldo” jokes lately, asDick Cheney (search), the Republican incumbent, andJohn Edwards (search), the North Carolina Democrat who wants his job, have taken a back seat to President Bush and John Kerry. But interesting dynamics that could be …

Dear Viewers, When this blog first gets posted, I will be on a plane headed south.Tonight we are doing the show out of Miami which means, among other things, that I will be doing it on little sleep since I got up early to catch a flight.So if you hear …

The latest from the Political Grapevine: Photo Field Day Newspapers are having a field day with that photo of John Kerry in a so-called “bunny suit” while touring the Kennedy Space Center yesterday. The New York Post, on its front page, says — “Boston, We Have A Problem.” The Washington …

Most travelers go to national parks to see wildlife, artifacts and pristine, breathtaking expanses of nature waiting to be explored. But instead, some visitors have recently been feasting their eyes on heaps of trash, vandalism and even illegal immigrants. Park rangers and preservation advocates say crunched budgets, staff shortages and …

WASHINGTON – Against the backdrop of the USS Intrepid, former President George H.W. Bush (search) told an audience of veterans and supporters on Monday that much of the complaints about the war in Iraq by protesters outside the Republican National Convention are hurting the men and women in uniform overseas. …