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She was elected for two terms without Republican opposition. The Libertarian candidate received less than 20% of the vote in both campaigns.

Thieves' Highway

The quartet, known as the Associates, were the movers and shakers behind the Central Pacific, the western leg of what became the transcontinental railroad. They "cared only about money" and, to get their way, "bent laws, broke rivals, and bribed governments," author Richard Rayner says, to become "as fabulously wealthy as anybody in American history."

The Associates: Four Capitalists Who Created California is Rayner's astute and literate history of the men's achievements. The author regards his subjects with a mixture of awe and revulsion. There are numerous books on the transcontinental railroad, including David Haward Bain's monumental Empire Express. Rayner focuses more on the moguls' deeds than on those of the surveyors and construction crews, and his artful effort has the advantage of being short enough to read on a California-to-New York flight.

Ruling Helps TJX Reduce Liability in Data Breach Case

Updated: A decision could reduce TJX's costs to settle lawsuits resulting from a massive consumer data breach.In a pair of crucial decisions, TJX has moved closer to completely clearing itself of the lawsuits from the worlds worst credit card data breach.

Those two rulings came from the federal judge overseeing the case—who refused to approve making the case a class action—and from Visa, which said it would reduce its fining of The TJX Companies in exchange for certain payments from the retailer to banks.

On the afternoon of Nov. 29, U.S. District Court Judge William Young denied the request to grant the bank class action certification, ruling that the many of the banks situations were too different from each other. Some of the banks had the expense of reissuing the cards while others didnt, for example.