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BofA shareholders gather for annual meeting

Apr. 29, 2009
Bank of America Corp. is bracing Wednesday for what is expected to be a lively and contentious annual shareholders meeting in Charlotte, N.C. The banking giant and its chairman and chief executive, Ken Lewis, have been under intense scrutiny in recent months...
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Vietnam Veterans Memorial Visited in Washington
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Veterans etch the names of their friends inscribed on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial on the 50th anniversary of the Vietnam War on May 26, 2012 in Washington, DC. More than 58,000 names of the servicemen who were killed or missing in the war are engraved on The Wall. UPI/Pat Benic