University of Missouri Blitz

Berger's Beat
November 10, 2015

http://bergersbeat.com/university-of-missouri-blitz/

Stifel Financial Corp.’s CEO Ron Kruszewski: Wall Street bonuses could fall more than 10% this year after declines in fixed-income trading revenue and China’s currency devaluation hurt profits. . .Following a 2.5 week trial, a Minnesota jury has awarded $8 million to a victim of predator priest Fr. Vincent Fitzgerald, who spent 13 years in Belleville (and shorter stints in Alton, Godfrey and Peoria until his death in 2009). He also worked in Mansfield in the Springfield-Cape Girardeau diocese. . .The media continues to holler headlines over the University of Missouri major kerfuffle. Slate: “The University of Missouri listened to protests against racism when players got involved. That’s a huge problem”. . .Honolulu Star Advertisier: “The news out of MIssouri this weekend is disturbing yet also exhilarating”; Chicago Tribune: “The story of a student uprising led by black activists at the U of M took an unexpected turn Monday when protesters and student journalists got into a clash over access”; Los Angeles Times: “Hat tip to the Columbia MIssourian for covering this issue closely”; Daily Beast: “Thank you Jesus for sparing his life,” cried one protester when Tim Wolfe resigned and graduate student Jonathan Butler’s hunger strike ended. . .Nov. 11 in 1939: Albert Einstein informed President Roosevelt of atomic bomb possibilities.