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Sep 15, 2011

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'Big Brother' Jury Selects 13th Season Champion
NPR
(AP Photo/CBS, Cliff Lipson) LOS ANGELES (AP) — The "Big Brother" results aren't giving Rachel Reilly reason to pout. After being locked away from the outsideworld for 75 days, the weepy "Big Brother" veteran emerged Wednesday as the winner of CBS' ...
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House GOP: WH rushed loan to failed solar co.
CBS News
(AP Photo/Paul Sakuma) WASHINGTON - The Obama administration's eagerness to deliver economic stimulus may have influenced a federal review of a loan to a now bankrupt solar panel manufacturer, a move that may have left taxpayers on the hook for a $528 ...
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New and returning shows for the 2011 season
Los Angeles Times (blog)
(N) “The Real World” 10 pm, Wednesday September 28, MTV: San Diego : (Season Premiere) Seven young adults share close living quarters. (N) “How to Be a Gentleman” 8:31 pm, Thursday September 29, CBS: Pilot : (Series Premiere) When an etiquette ...
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Nude photos hacked from ScarJo cell
Detroit Free Press
Less than two weeks after his 47th birthday and less than a week before the season premiere of "Two and a Half Men" -- the CBS sitcom from which he was fired because of his erratic behavior -- Sheen described himself as "a lot mellower," usmagazine.com ...
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Woman strip-searched after 9/11 flight landed
CBS News
(CBS/AP Photo/Shoshana Hebshi) DETROIT - An Ohio woman who was one of three people taken off an airplane at Detroit's airport and questioned on the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks says she was shocked when armed officers stopped at ...
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Bill Neukom to retire as Giants' controlling owner less than a year after ...
Washington Post
A fourth-generation San Franciscan, Baer was an assistant to CBS Inc. chairman Laurence Tisch in New York when he helped put together the ownership group with Magowan in 1992 that prevented the Giants from moving to St. Petersburg, Fla. ...
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Park Slope Residents Take To The Streets In Numbers To Send Message To Rapist
CBS New York
(Photo: CBS 2) NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Brooklyn residents are taking back their streets — by force. A string of high-profile attacks, including one captured by surveillance cameras, sent hundreds of people into the streets Wednesday night to fight ...
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OUTRAGE: N.J. 9/11 Memorial Inscripted With Names Of Politicians -- Not The Fallen
CBS New York
(Photo: CBS 2) WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP, NJ (CBSNewYork) — A Sept. 11 memorial in a New Jersey town has angered residents and first responders. Because of the outrage, politicians were forced to have it removed. The 9/11 Memorial in Lower Manhattan is set ...
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Philanthropist, socialite Jackie Lee Houston dies
The Desert Sun
DESERT SUN FILE PHOTO Jackie Lee Houston at home in Palm Springs in 2002. MAILE KLEIN/SPECIAL TO THE DESERT SUN Jackie Lee and Jim Houston at the Palm Springs International Film Festival Gala on Jan. 17, 2009. WADE BYARS/THE DESERT SUN Jackie Lee ...
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Fox Sports Chief Talks Dodgers TV Deal, NFL Coverage (Q&A)
Hollywood Reporter
David Hill was living in the UK in 1994 after launching a satellite TV sports service partly owned by News Corp. when Rupert Murdoch asked him to help Fox swipe NFL games from CBS. “To be honest, what I knew about the [NFL] you could write on the back ...
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Hollywood Reporter
Robert Lipsyte: The sports writer who was never a sports fan
Shelter Island Reporter
Between those two stints with the Times, he did television work as a correspondent for CBS and NBC, as well as winning an Emmy as host of WNET/Thirteen's “The Eleventh Hour” in the late 1980s. Ron Fried, a television producer and writer, called Lipsyte ...
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Lady Gaga, Johnny Depp and more snare Guinness records
msnbc.com
And "Hawaii Five-O?" "Highest Rated New Show," as the CBS cop drama had 19.34 million viewers on Jan. 23. The Guinness Book of World Records will be in stores Thursday with a suggested retail price of $28.95. Joel Waul, pictured, of the United States ...
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Caterina Fake betters digital self-expression with sites Flickr, Etsy
The Miscellany News
20 years after accepting her diploma at the top of Graduation Hill, Fake is now the successful co-founder of one of the best online photo sharing websites in theworld: "Flickr is about people's self-expression and creative work, community sharing, ...
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Tennis: Djokovic sets ATP prize money record
Ninemsn
He began his day with the American talk morning shows, CBS' Early Show and NBC's Today show. "It has been a dream year and the best of my career so I am loving every minute of it," Djokovic told the Today Show. "When you win against your top rivals it ...
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Jersey Shore: Mike 'The Situation' Sorrentino hogs handicapped spot [video]
Examiner.com
Photo: Dancer Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino attends the premiere of "Dancing With The Stars" at CBS Television City on September 20, 2010 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images)
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Two 'Kids in the Hall' take a shot at stand-up
San Jose Mercury News
He might have been more open to such work if, after the troupe's HBO/CBS series "The Kids in the Hall" ended after five seasons in 1995, he wasn't sensitive about the show's poor reception in the gay community. One of his most enduring characters from ...
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SCRIPPS HOWARD NEWS SERVICE CONSOLIDATED BUDGET
The Republic
There are more than two things to like and loathe about CBS's new Monday-night comedy, "2 Broke Girls." 300. With photo: SH11I097OWENSIDE. HARPER-TV (Sheridan, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) -- Her role as Rhoda Morgenstern on "Mary Tyler Moore" and the ...
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Moore remains planted in bohemia
Cochrane Eagle
Her penchant for songwriting would not go unnoticed, as CBSRecords in Canada would sign Moore as a recording artist. Moore recorded three albums for CBS: Oceanview Motel (1990), Bohemia (1992) and Dragonfly (1995). She would not release another album ...
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'Two and a Half Men' back with new cast, equation
Superior Telegram
The stars of CBS' "Two and a Half Men" are scrutinizing a publicity photo depicting them as a tuxedo-clad trio sharing a vintage microphone. In this image taken fromvideo and provided by CBS, the co-stars of “Two and a Half Men,” from left, Jon Cryer, ...
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CBS 3 Springfield - WSHMWord of advice for spring wardrobe: caution
WSHM-TV
(AP Photo/Jason DeCrow) By SAMANTHA CRITCHELL AP Fashion Writer NEW YORK AP) - The blockbuster colors and florals, geometrics and ethnic prints on the runways at New York Fashion Week may feel like game-changers in the moment....
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CBS Atlanta 46GOP upset win in NY portends challenge for Obama
WGCL Atlanta
The trouble for Weiner, who served seven terms, began when a photo of a man's crotch surfaced on his Twitter feed. He initially denied the photo was of him but later admitted it was. Weiner, who's married, resigned June 16 after two weeks of fighting ...
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Rare early Beatles photos to be auctioned off
Today's THV
NEW YORK, NY (CBS) -- Photographs detailing the Beatles' early days in Germany will be sold at auction in New York City. Before they were global superstars and cultural icons, the Beatles were an up and coming band performing in Hamburg, Germany. ...
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Surviving Pilot Whale Taken To SeaWorld « CBS Miami
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Richardson fails to free American jailed in Cuba - World ... - CBS News
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Brown to speak at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Washington Post
Anthony Brown will talk about health care reform implementation at a fall seminar series at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Brown will talk about his work on health care reform in Maryland at the event in Baltimore on Thursday. ...
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REUTERS World News, Sep 15, 2011


Polish drama "In Darkness" sheds light on Holocaust
Reuters
Director Agnieszka Holland of the film ''In Darkness'' poses for a portrait during the 36th Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) in Toronto, September 12, 2011. By Julie Gordon TORONTO (Reuters) - With her new drama "In Darkness" Agnieszka ...
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Reuters
Nasdaq CEO says D.Boerse-NYSE deal could be unfair
Reuters
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks rose 1 percent in a third day of gains on Wednesday after European leaders displayed new urgency in efforts to contain the euro zone debt crisis. | Video CHICAGO (Reuters) - Last winter, President Barack Obama, ...
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Reuters
Blinkx launches web channels for specialized ads
Reuters
By Georgina Prodhan LONDON (Reuters) - Online video search and advertising company Blinkx launched its first web channels aimed at special interest groups on Wednesday, a move that should allow it to sell premium-rate ads by targeting niche audiences ...
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Former Kleiner partner starts social networking site Erly
Reuters
By Sarah McBride SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Former Kleiner Perkins partner Eric Feng says there's room for one more social network-- built around experiences, not people. His network, Erly.com, launches on Wednesday and draws on the idea that people ...
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'Twilight' trailer reveals vampire baby on the way
Reuters India
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - So much for chastity in the world of the "Twilight" vampires. The movie trailer for "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn -- Part 1" has been released, and it shows that the franchise's heroine Bella Swan and her vampire lover ...
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Reuters India
US officials doubt al-Qaida chief fled Pakistan
msnbc.com
NBC News' Jim Miklaszewski and Fakhar Rehman, Reuters, The Associated Press and msnbc.com staff contributed to this report. Joe Caristo of Miami, who once worked at the World Trade Center, stands silently Sunday, Sept. 11, during a ceremony in New York ...
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Was Michael Jackson almost in WTC on 9/11?
msnbc.com
(Kimberly White / pool via Reuters) Share Back to slideshow navigation Michael Jackson sings with some of his young fans at the World Music Awards at Earls Court in London on Nov. 16, 2006. (Graham Jepson / WireImage) Share Back to slideshow navigation ...
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'The Lady' offers life-altering messages for the masses
Vancouver Sun
By Katherine Monk, Postmedia News September 14, 2011 French director Luc Besson smiles during the news conference for the film "The Lady" at the 36th Toronto International Film Festival September 12, 2011. REUTERS/Mike Cassese (CANADA - Tags: ...
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Jury Deliberations Begin in Gundlach Trial
New York Times
By KEVIN ROOSE Pool photo by Reuters VideoJeffrey Gundlach, of DoubleLine Capital and a well-known bond manager, denied in a Los Angeles court that he used trade secrets. After six weeks of testimony in the civil trial of Jeffrey E. Gundlach of ...
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New York Times
Put yourself in the front row
Sydney Morning Herald
Digital manipulation by Fairfax using original photos: Getty Images, AP, Reuters Live streaming, mass tweeting, mobile videos and more bring the runway directly to you, writes Valerie Knight. Once upon a time, New York Fashion Week was a closed-door...
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Sydney Morning Herald
Ex-Drug Smuggler Turned Data Miner Reclaims a Field He Created
BusinessWeek
Its only possible rivals are the companies that bought his previous data tools, Thomson ReutersCorp. and Reed Elsevier, he said. Through their spokesmen, Nicholas Ludlum for LexisNexis and David Girardin for Thomson Reuters, the companies declined to ...
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Mayweather Goes Off On Pacquiao, Pushes Drug-Testing Issue (VIDEO)
International Business Times
This time it is Mayweather's turn as the undefeated Welterweight fighter looks to improve to 42-0 against World Boxing Council (WBC) champion Victor Ortiz. The Mayweather-Ortiz fight is scheduled for this Saturday at the MGM Grand Casino in Las Vegas. ...
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International Business Times
George Osborne, Anthony Weiner and Why Neither the UK nor the US Press Knows ...
TIME (blog)
(Photo: Facundo Arrizabalaga / Reuters) Though you wouldn't believe it from the hacking scandal and the panoply of salacious headlines gracing Britain's papers daily, the UK actually has tougher libel laws than the US There is no guaranteed freedom of ...
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Iran Delays Release of U.S. Hikers
Wall Street Journal
Video courtesy of Reuters. The Omani intervention suggested movement on the complicated judicial and diplomatic dealings over the total $1 million bail, which was thrown into doubt earlier Wednesday when Iran's judiciary said the deal still needed ...
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Former UK PM Tony Blair says post 9/11 battle is not over
3News NZ
"I didn't anticipate this coming in my premiership - I had a huge and busy domestic agenda - but nonetheless, we have to understand that the world is a different place from now on." AP Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair ( Reuters )
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3News NZ
Moreover Technologies Inks Broadcast Monitoring Deal with TVEyes, Strengthens ...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Clients include Shell Oil, Sony, Citigroup, Hill & Knowlton, BBC, Kingfisher, Durrants, Reuters UK, Siemens and Simon & Schuster. Through US and UK offices, the firm offers corporate customers worldwide direct access to comprehensive, yet targeted, ...
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Review: 'Contagion' Infected by Too Many Characters
Big Hollywood
Makes a good case for not letting 3rd world illegal aliens into western countries ! Europe has TB running rampant (since the 3 world illegals came over from Central Asia…all of the "stans") http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/13/tubercu. ...
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Did the New York Giants originate the Gatorade shower?
Los Angeles Times (blog)
This "Gatorade shower" (or "Gatorade dunk" or "Gatorade bath," the act has been given a lot of different names over the years) became a national sensation in 1987, popping up from everywhere to sporting events (like the 1987 World Series) and ...
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Microsoft to acquire Skype in $8.5bn deal (by Craig Nicholson)
Living Streams Consultancy
Michael Clendenin, managing director of consulting firm RedTech Advisors, explained to Reuters that acquiring an internet business for ten times sales could seem "downright cheap". He added: "But if you consider [it] was just valued at about $2.5 ...
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Russia TV Edits Out Medvedev Dance Parody
Newser
More» (NEWSER) - Exxon Mobil scored a major coup in the search for Arctic oil today, signing a deal with Russia to explore areas with state-owned Rosneft, reports Reuters . The deal gives Exxon access to spots controlled by Moscow in the Kara Sea, ...
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Cisco slashes long term forecasts
TechEye
According to Reuters , Chambers said that Cisco's its long-term revenue growth target by roughly half to five percent to seven percent from 12 to 17 percent previously. The new target was also below Cisco's estimate for total market growth of seven to ...
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TechEye
Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology Opens Women of Vision Award ...
MarketWatch (press release)
ABI Partners include: Google, HP, Microsoft, CA Technologies, Cisco, Facebook, First Republic Bank, IBM, Intel, Intuit, Lockheed Martin, National Science Foundation, National Security Agency, NetApp, SAP, Symantec, Thomson Reuters, Wilson Sonsini ...
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Cars, Pedestrians Crossing Mexico-US Border Stuck in Tijuana After Scaffolding ...
LA Weekly (blog)
... News reports indicate that scaffolding over the Mexico-to-US border crossing collapsed around 10:45 am, injuring one to three 11 people and clogging the busiest land border in the world. (Reuters estimates that 45 million pass through each year. ...
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Polish drama "In Darkness" sheds light on Holocaust
Los Angeles Times
TORONTO (Reuters) - With her new drama "In Darkness" Agnieszka Holland has returned to her native Poland to produce a haunting portrait of the Holocaust that could net the veteran director another Oscar nod. The film, which had its world premiere at ...
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Police clash with anti-UN protesters in Haiti
Malaysia Star
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters): Haitian police firing tear gas clashed on Wednesday with demonstrators who demanded the withdrawal of UN peacekeepers in a protest against the alleged rape of a man by a group of Uruguayan marines. ...
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Sarkozy, Cameron 'to visit Libya'
FRANCE 24
By Nicholas RUSHWORTH (video) REUTERS - The French and British leaders will visit Libya on Thursday to congratulate the new rulers they helped install, but families fleeing besieged bastions of ousted strongman Muammar Gaddafi are a reminder that peace ...
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FRANCE 24
Blogger Perez Hilton starts family website Dean Brody takes top honours at CCMAs
Telegraph-Journal (registration)
It's not just about train wrecks and out-of-control celebrities," Hilton told Reuters. Hilton, 33, whose real name is Mario Lavandeira, rose to fame after launching his celebrity blog, PerezHilton.com, in September 2004. It now averages 200 million ...
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Windows 8: Worth the wait, but is it too late? | MediaFile - Reuters
By John C Abell
The release of Windows 8 is now in the home stretch, and the vast majority of the world's computers are about to begin getting the digital equivalent of a complete makeover.
MediaFile
World Bank's Zoellick: World economy in new danger zone (Reuters ...
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Blast at French nuclear site kills one, no leaks | Reuters
MARCOULE, France (Reuters) - A worker was killed in an explosion at a French nuclear waste site on ... Related Video. Video .... Thomson Reuters is the world's largest international multimedianews agency, providing investing news, world ...
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Reuters World News Highlights 1000 GMT, Sept 12. ... Video: Siege launched on Israeli embassy in Cairo. Amb. Michael Oren talks about the relationship ...
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Scores burn to death in Kenya gas fire, police say - World news ...
Video: Cigarette sparks deadly fire in Kenya slum ... Deputy police spokesman Charles Owino toldReuters that the fire was ignited by a ... More world news ...
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