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SAN FRANCISCO – Fidelity Capital Appreciation Fund is one of the country’s top mutual funds for the past five years, as manager Harry Lange outclassed 97 percent of his big-company growth-stock rivals. Except that Lange doesn’t run Capital Appreciation (FDCAX) anymore. In October he left the $7.9 billion fund he’d …

SAN FRANCISCO – In years past, on a certain mid-April day at midnight, a mad rush of stressed-out taxpayers would descend on the local the post office. Those days appear to be waning. Of those still brave enough to do their own taxes, 17% more opted to file their return …

WASHINGTON – The U.S. ambassador to Iraq said Sunday that the United States looks forward to working with Iraq’s prime minister-designate, calling him an “Iraqi patriot.” Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad said in a televised interview that Jawad al-Maliki has a “reputation for being a strong leader, a patriotic leader, without being …