self.document.write('<div style="margin : 0px; width : auto; height : auto; border : solid 0px; overflow : hidden; font-size : 1em; font-family : \'Arial\'; color : black; background : inherit;"> <div style="padding : 3px;" > <ul style="margin : 0px; padding-left : 15px"> <li style="margin-bottom : 4px;"> <div style=""> <a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/economist/full_print_edition/~3/57zuqRQlFYw/displaystory.cfm" target="_blank" style="font-weight : bold; font-size : 1em; color : inherit;" >Cerberus: Out of the doghouse?</a> </div> <div style="margin : 2px 0px; font-size : inherit ; color : inherit;"> <p>After a few conspicuous flops, a private-equity firm gets back to its roots <p>“PEOPLE were prematurely writing the epitaph of our investments and our firm,” says Mark Neporent of Cerberus, a private-equity firm and hedge fund. “Hopefully it’s pretty apparent to people that we’re back.” The firm, named after the three-headed dog in Greek mythology that guards the gates of the underworld, has spent the past two years trying to claw its way out of hell. Two of its largest and best known investments tanked. Chrysler, a carmaker, filed for bankruptcy and GMAC, General Motors’ financing arm, had to be rescued by the American government, which now owns most of it. For Cerberus, an intensely private firm, these were very public embarrassments. <p>Some wondered whether the embattled firm would go the way of those two investments. But Cerberus’s flagship private-equity fund rebounded last year, making up for its 25% fall in 2008. (Its main hedge fund was still down by around 4% in 2009.) Its recent sale of Talecris Biotherapeutics, a blood-plasma company it bought in 2005 for $600m, to a Spanish health-care company for $3.4 billion has added to a sense of revival. Nor has the firm given up hope on Chrysler. Cerberus still has control of Chrysler Financial, the company’s finance arm, and there is talk of turning it into a diversified financial firm. Some say Cerberus may be able to recoup its money or even record a profit on its $7.4 billion investment in Chrysler if it plays its card right on Chrysler Financial. ... </div> <div style="font-size : 1em; color : inherit;"> <a href="http://economist.com" target="_blank" style="font-size : 1em; color : inherit;">economist.com</a> - 2010-07-29 16:47:03 GMT </div> </li> <li style="margin-bottom : 4px;"> <div style=""> <a href="http://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2010/jul/29/sec-football-previews-dogs-receptive-chan-20100729/" target="_blank" style="font-weight : bold; font-size : 1em; color : inherit;" >Dogs receptive to change</a> </div> <div style="margin : 2px 0px; font-size : inherit ; color : inherit;"> Georgia is breaking in a new starting quarterback for the second year in a row, and this time it\'s a redshirt freshman instead of a fifth-year senior. </div> <div style="font-size : 1em; color : inherit;"> <a href="http://arkansasonline.com" target="_blank" style="font-size : 1em; color : inherit;">arkansasonline.com</a> - 2010-07-29 12:14:29 GMT </div> </li> <li style="margin-bottom : 4px;"> <div style=""> <a href="http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Zingela-sniffs-out-Panjo-20100728" target="_blank" style="font-weight : bold; font-size : 1em; color : inherit;" >Zingela sniffs out Panjo</a> </div> <div style="margin : 2px 0px; font-size : inherit ; color : inherit;"> Panjo the tiger has met his match in the form of a Weimeraner dog specially trained to track predators. </div> <div style="font-size : 1em; color : inherit;"> <a href="http://news24.com" target="_blank" style="font-size : 1em; color : inherit;">news24.com</a> - 2010-07-29 05:17:39 GMT </div> </li> <li style="margin-bottom : 4px;"> <div style=""> <a href="http://www.clickorlando.com/news/24421228/detail.html" target="_blank" style="font-weight : bold; font-size : 1em; color : inherit;" >Pit Bull Shooting Caught On Camera</a> </div> <div style="margin : 2px 0px; font-size : inherit ; color : inherit;"> A firefighter in Florida uses his cell phone to capture the shooting of a dog by police on camera. The firefighters can be heard laughing after the pit bull is put down. </div> <div style="font-size : 1em; color : inherit;"> <a href="http://local6.com" target="_blank" style="font-size : 1em; color : inherit;">local6.com</a> - 2010-07-28 16:57:38 GMT </div> </li> <li style="margin-bottom : 4px;"> <div style=""> <a href="http://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2010/jul/28/fire-trucks-hold-dog-cat-masks-20100728/" target="_blank" style="font-weight : bold; font-size : 1em; color : inherit;" >Fire trucks hold dog, cat masks</a> </div> <div style="margin : 2px 0px; font-size : inherit ; color : inherit;"> All Washington County fire trucks are now equipped with oxygen masks specifically designed for dogs and cats. </div> <div style="font-size : 1em; color : inherit;"> <a href="http://arkansasonline.com" target="_blank" style="font-size : 1em; color : inherit;">arkansasonline.com</a> - 2010-07-28 12:17:56 GMT </div> </li> <li style="margin-bottom : 4px;"> <div style=""> <a href="http://feeds.sfgate.com/click.phdo?i=dea057f4c802c007ea480718f1dea813" target="_blank" style="font-weight : bold; font-size : 1em; color : inherit;" >Grandfather charged in dog mauling</a> </div> <div style="margin : 2px 0px; font-size : inherit ; color : inherit;"> Contra Costa County prosecutors have filed two felony charges today against a Concord man whose pit bull terriers killed his 2-year-old step-grandson. Steven Hayashi, 52, was charged with child endangerment and allowing a vicious animal to be at large in... Contra Costa County California - Pit Bull - California - Child abuse - United States </div> <div style="font-size : 1em; color : inherit;"> <a href="http://sfgate.com" target="_blank" style="font-size : 1em; color : inherit;">sfgate.com</a> - 2010-07-27 00:43:36 GMT </div> </li> <li style="margin-bottom : 4px;"> <div style=""> <a href="http://newsblaze.com/story/20100726122404mive.nb/topstory.html" target="_blank" style="font-weight : bold; font-size : 1em; color : inherit;" >Cats and Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore - Spies With Long Tails</a> </div> <div style="margin : 2px 0px; font-size : inherit ; color : inherit;"> If it\'s only the backdrop of a story, it gets a little tricky. Probably a little like trying to mix oil and water, or deciding to buy magnetic catches; you know, deep down, it\'s just not going to work. </div> <div style="font-size : 1em; color : inherit;"> <a href="http://newsblaze.com" target="_blank" style="font-size : 1em; color : inherit;">newsblaze.com</a> - 2010-07-26 20:52:30 GMT </div> </li> <li style="margin-bottom : 4px;"> <div style=""> <a href="http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700050613/Photo-Slurp-daddy.html?s_cid=rss-5" target="_blank" style="font-weight : bold; font-size : 1em; color : inherit;" >Photo: Slurp daddy</a> </div> <div style="margin : 2px 0px; font-size : inherit ; color : inherit;"> Paul Gabriel, of The Woodlands, Texas, takes a licking from his Yorkshire terrier, Romeo, as he strolls at the World Series... </div> <div style="font-size : 1em; color : inherit;"> <a href="http://deseretnews.com" target="_blank" style="font-size : 1em; color : inherit;">deseretnews.com</a> - 2010-07-25 05:56:45 GMT </div> </li> <li style="margin-bottom : 4px;"> <div style=""> <a href="http://1010wins.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&amp;contentId=6523475" target="_blank" style="font-weight : bold; font-size : 1em; color : inherit;" >Dog Dies in NY Fire After Barks Wake, Save Family</a> </div> <div style="margin : 2px 0px; font-size : inherit ; color : inherit;"> Members of a New York family owe their lives to a dog, whose barks alerted them to a bad house fire ripping through their Orange County home. </div> <div style="font-size : 1em; color : inherit;"> <a href="http://1010wins.com" target="_blank" style="font-size : 1em; color : inherit;">1010wins.com</a> - 2010-07-24 15:50:37 GMT </div> </li> <li style="margin-bottom : 4px;"> <div style=""> <a href="http://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2010/jul/24/sec-football-previews-dogs-our-time-now-20100724/" target="_blank" style="font-weight : bold; font-size : 1em; color : inherit;" >SEC Football Previews: Dogs: Our time now</a> </div> <div style="margin : 2px 0px; font-size : inherit ; color : inherit;"> Dan Mullen doesn\'t have a longrange plan for winning Mississippi State\'s first SEC West title since the Bulldogs shared it with Arkansas in 1998. </div> <div style="font-size : 1em; color : inherit;"> <a href="http://arkansasonline.com" target="_blank" style="font-size : 1em; color : inherit;">arkansasonline.com</a> - 2010-07-24 11:55:27 GMT </div> </li> </ul> </div> </div>');