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Wall Street's Record Bonuses Return: Analysts Predict $30 Billion In Bonuses At Big 3

Bloomberg   |  Michael J. Moore and Ian Katz   |   November 9, 2009

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Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan Chase & Co.'s investment bank, survivors of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, are set...

Jim Carrey Wins Weekend, Cameron Diaz Tanks

AP   |   November 8, 2009

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LOS ANGELES — Jim Carrey's Scrooge collected holiday donations from movie fans with his new take on "A Christmas Carol," which took in $31 million...

NY Post Circulation Sinks To 508,000

New York Times   |  RICHARD PÉREZ   |   November 9, 2009

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Nearly every paper in America has lost circulation, but The Post more than most -- down almost 30 percent in 2.5 years, to 508,000 in...

Elizabeth Zambrano, Victor Zambrano's Mother, Kidnapped In Venezuela

AP   |  The Associated Press   |   November 9, 2009

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The mother of former major leaguer Victor Zambrano has been kidnapped. Zambrano's agent Peter Greenberg says Elizabeth Mendez Zambrano was abducted Sunday morning from her...

Text Messaging Booms: 80% More Messages Sent In Just 12 Months; 132.5 Billion Texts Sent

New York Times   |  ALEX MINDLIN   |   November 9, 2009

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The number of text messages transmitted in the United States grew by more than 80 percent over the 12 months ended in June, according to...

Big Pharma's Crime Spree: Drug Makers Pushing Products For Unapproved Uses

Bloomberg   |  David Evans   |   November 9, 2009

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Pfizer and Lilly lead a parade of U.S. companies that have paid $7 billion in penalties after promoting drugs for uses not approved by the...

Is Ft. Hood Like Columbine? By Columbine's Dave Cullen

Newsweek   |  Dave Cullen   |   November 8, 2009

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My brain is about to bust with all the apparent parallels to Columbine, Virginia Tech and 9/11, and the startling differences to each as well....

Clinton: Berlin Wall Festivities Not Just A Party

AP   |  MATTHEW LEE   |   November 8, 2009

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BERLIN — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton urged Europeans and Americans on Sunday to see the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin...

Berlin Wall PHOTOS: A Look Back At The Fall

  |   November 9, 2009

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Monday November 9th marks the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, a monumental moment in history which the Economist recently referred to...

Deer Jumps Into Lion Cage At DC Zoo (VIDEO): Animal Escapes, But Is Put Down

  |   November 8, 2009

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A wild deer jumped into the lion enclosure at the National Zoo in Washington D.C. on Sunday and inspired onlookers as it fought to escape...

Geisy Arruda, Brazil Student, Expelled After Wearing Short Dress (VIDEO)

  |   November 8, 2009

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(AP) SAO PAULO — A Brazilian university has expelled a woman who was heckled by hundreds of fellow students for wearing a short, pink dress...

Airplane Crashes Into Wild Pig On Runway, Reveals Zimbabwe's Air Safety Failures

Times Online   |  Jan Raath   |   November 8, 2009

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It took a wild pig on the runway at Harare International Airport to reveal what many Zimbabweans have long feared: the country's Civil Aviation Authority...

Berlin Wall 20th Anniversary: Germany Celebrates Memory Of Its Falling

AP   |  MATT MOORE   |   November 8, 2009

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BERLIN — With concerts and memorials on Monday, Germans will celebrate the day the Berlin Wall came crashing down 20 years ago. On that cold...

Richmond Gang Rape 911 Caller Speaks: Margarita Vargas Heard About Attack, Reported It

  |   November 8, 2009

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A 15-year-old girl who was raped, robbed and beaten by multiple attackers outside of her high school homecoming dance was found by police after 18-year-old...

El Salvador Floods: 91 Dead After Mudslides, Flooding

AP   |  DIEGO MENDEZ   |   November 8, 2009

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VERAPAZ, El Salvador — Mud and boulders loosened by heavy rains swept down a volcano and partly buried a small town Sunday, swallowing up homes...

Anonymous Democratic Strategist Claims White House Discouraged Fox News Appearances

LA Times   |  Peter Nicholas   |   November 8, 2009

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At least one Democratic political strategist has gotten a blunt warning from the White House to never appear on Fox News Channel, an outlet that...

US Treasury's Gold Valued: US Gold Reserves Total $288 Billion, But Not Really

Washington Post / Big Money   |  Martha C. White   |   November 8, 2009

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Buried in the Treasury's International Reserve Position report is an intriguing bit of math. The document details the total amount, by weight, of the Treasury's...

Mikhail Gorbachev Supports US Withdrawal From Afghanistan (Video)

  |   November 8, 2009

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Mikhail Gorbachev supports a troop withdrawal from Afghanistan. The former president of the Soviet Union spoke to CNN's John King Sunday on State Of The...

AP Poll Week 11: Oklahoma Drops Out Of College Football Rankings

AP   |  RALPH D. RUSSO   |   November 8, 2009

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NEW YORK — Over the past decade, Oklahoma has rarely been out of the AP Top 25 and Stanford has rarely been in. On Sunday,...

BCS Rankings Week 11: TCU In 4th Place In BCS Standings

AP   |  RALPH D. RUSSO   |   November 8, 2009

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NEW YORK — All those blowouts have carried TCU to unprecedented heights in the BCS standings, giving the Horned Frogs hope – however slim –...
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