Huntsman Brands Romney
'Status Quo,' Urges Tax
Returns Release
Washington Post
Jan. 6 (Bloomberg) --
Republican presidential
contender Jon Huntsman Jr.
charged that Mitt Romney
would be a “status quo
president” with respect to
Wall Street and Washington
influence peddling. Romney,
who's leading in opinion
polls, should release ...
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tries new test to find gang
members wanting out
CBS News
(AP) LOS ANGELES — Melissa
Pirraglio spent many of her
11 years of gang life in
drug-addled despair seeking
a way out. "There's an
inkling in every single gang
member looking for an
opportunity to come out,"
said Pirraglio, now 34 and a
counselor to ...
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topic »Iran
welcomes US Navy's rescue of
Iranian fishermen held by
pirates
Washington Post
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran's
government on Saturday
welcomed the US Navy's
rescue of 13 Iranian
fishermen held by pirates,
calling it a positive
humanitarian gesture. US
officials announced Friday
that the fishermen had been
rescued by a US Navy
destroyer on ...
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Jayhawks-Sooners Preview
USA TODAY
GAME NOTES: The 14th-ranked
play their first Big 12 road
game of the season, as they
invade Norman this weekend
for a conference clash with
the Oklahoma Sooners at the
Lloyd Noble Center. Bill
Self's Jayhawks are 11-3 on
the season and are sporting
a ...
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topic »Capitals-Sharks
Preview
USA TODAY
(Sports Network) - The
Washington Capitals will try
to continue their longest
winning streak since the
start of the season, as they
visit the first-place San
Jose Sharks for tonight's
interconference clash at HP
Pavilion. The Capitals have
won their ...
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topic »New
NBC chief says 'Community'
coming back
BusinessWeek
By DAVID BAUDER After
acknowledging that NBC had a
"really bad fall," the
network's entertainment
chief moved swiftly Friday
to assure viewers that
"Community" and "Law &
Order: SVU" aren't leaving.
Although the Thursday night
comedy "Community" was
...
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Anthony, Knicks pay a visit
to Pistons
Chicago Tribune
— Carmelo Anthony is the
NBA's second-leading scorer
and looks to remain hot
tonight, when the New York
Knicks take on the Detroit
Pistons from The Palace of
Auburn Hills. Anthony is
currently battling a sore
hip and is averaging 29.1
points on the ...
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Mass. pulls rate review
request in NU-NStar deal
Boston.com
BOSTON—The Patrick
administration has withdrawn
a request that the
Massachusetts utility NStar
undergo a formal review of
its rates before regulators
approve its merger with
Connecticut-based Northeast
Utilities . A lengthy rate
review could have ...
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topic »CT
Vivian returns to struggle
to help guide SCLC
Chicago Tribune
ATLANTA— At age 87, civil
rights veteran CT Vivian
could have easily retired
from the struggle for
justice and equality, but is
instead he is the new vice
president of the Southern
Christian Leadership
Conference. As the venerable
civil rights ...
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topic »Clerk
with gun foils Syracuse
robbery
Wall Street Journal
AP SYRACUSE, NY — Police say
a clerk at a convenience
store in Syracuse was able
to stop a robbery by pulling
a gun on a man who had
slashed him with a knife.
Police tell the
Post-Standard, of Syracuse,
(http://bit.ly/A0bogi ) that
a man entered the ...
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topic »Economic
Decline Brings Down
Immigration
Fox News
As the economic and
demographic landscapes of
both Mexico and some
countries in Latin America
undergo tectonic shifts, and
our own economic growth
continues to wane, suddenly,
in a remarkably short time,
immigration to America, both
lawful and unlawful ...
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topic »Jazz
try again for first road win
at Golden State
Fox News
The Utah Jazz are still
searching for their first
road win of the season and
will take on the Golden
State Warriors tonight at
Oracle Arena. Utah is 0-3
away from Salt Lake City
this season, but has won
three straight and four of
five games overall, ...
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topic »Sudan's
President al-Bashir on first
visit to post-Gadhafi Libya
Washington Post
TRIPOLI, Libya — Sudan's
President Omar al-Bashir met
with top Libyan officials in
the capital, Tripoli, on
Saturday during his first
visit to the country since
rebels armed with Sudanese
help ousted Moammar Gadhafi
last year. ...
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Jets' Tomlinson tells radio
station he may retire
Boston.com
NEW YORK—Jets running back
LaDainian Tomlinson has told
a San Diego radio station
that he is considering
calling an end to his
11-year NFL career. The
32-year-old Tomlinson told
the Scott & BR Show on
XX1090AM on Friday that he
is "contemplating ...
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5 wounded leaving La. high
school basketball game
The Associated Press
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New
Orleans police say a gunman
opened fire into a crowd
leaving a high school
basketball game, wounding a
man and four teenage boys.
Police spokesman Frank
Robertson III said the
injuries from late Friday's
shooting at Warren Easton
...
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topic »Lawsuits,
competition weigh on
Motorola
CFOworld
By Nancy Gohring The cost of
patent lawsuits and a more
competitive market weighed
down Motorola Mobility's
fourth-quarter financial
results, the company
reported Friday in releasing
preliminary numbers.
Motorola expects to report
US$3.4 billion in ...
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topic »Mary
Hayashi, California
Lawmaker, Gets Probation In
Shoplifting Case
Huffington Post
By TERENCE CHEA 01/ 7/12
03:42 AM ET AP SAN FRANCISCO
-- A judge sentenced a
California lawmaker to three
years of probation after she
pleaded no contest to
stealing leather pants and
other merchandise, thefts
that her attorney blamed on
a benign brain ...
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topic »Main
attraction: What makes US
youth gravitate to Ron Paul?
Alaska Dispatch
What does the young,
20-something voter see in a
senior-citizen Republican
presidential candidate with
shaggy brows, isolationist
views, and an economic
policy that predates 1971?
Isn't this the same group
that helped to sweep Barack
Obama into office ...
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topic »Google
Doodle Honors 'Addams
Family' Creator Charles
Addams
PC Magazine
By Chloe Albanesius
Halloween was more than two
months ago, but the Google
homepage still has a rather
ghoulish quality to it
today. The search giant is
celebrating the 100th
birthday of Addams Family
creator Charles Addams with
a doodle featuring the
...
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topic »Lightning
strikes twice for lottery
winners
CBS News
LOS ANGELES - A group of
employees at a California
school district who won a
$12 million Lotto prize last
year has done it again and
now stands to collect
another pot worth more than
a quarter of a million
dollars. State lottery
officials announced ...
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topic »Marvell,
OLPC Introduce "One Tablet
Per Child"
PC Magazine
By Sascha Segan Marvell and
One Laptop Per Child today
introduced the XO 3.0, a
tablet designed for
education in the developing
world. The XO 3.0 uses
Marvell's 1Ghz PXA618
processor and runs both
OLPC's custom Sugar Linux OS
and Google Android ...
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Biggest swell of winter
sinks boat, belts beaches
Friday
San Jose Mercury News
By Stephen Baxter - Santa
Cruz Sentinel Big waves hit
up and down the coast
Friday. A film crew tries to
get footage of big wave
surfers from a helicopter
during the opening ceremony
of the Mavericks Surf
Contest during the afternoon
in Half Moon Bay. ...
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