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Fox News Takes Tuesday Night
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JPMorgan to Pay $75 Million in Alabama Case
The Securities and Exchange Commission said that JPMorgan Chase had agreed to pay $75 million and forfeit $647 million in termination fees to settle civil charges that its securities firm had engaged in an "unlawful payment scheme" in Jefferson County.
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Phils' Victorino Will Play Despite Finger Injury
NEW YORK (AP) -- All-Star center fielder Shane Victorino was in Philadelphia's starting lineup Wednesday night for Game 6 of the World Series despite a finger injury.
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Dodgers' Padilla Shoots His Own Leg in Nicaragua
MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) -- Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Vicente Padilla is recovering from a bullet wound in his leg after a target shooting instructor accidentally shot him.
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Abroad: Scots Aim Lasers at Landmarks
In an era of computer animation, making laser scans of old monuments may not sound special, but a Scottish team has achieved unprecedented levels of sophistication.
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Payments in Ivoirian Toxic Dumping Case Disputed
Thousands of victims of one of the worst toxic dumping scandals in years could lose their hard-won settlement, the victims’ lawyer said Wednesday.
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Will a Yankee Win Favor Wall Street's Bulls?
Wall Street might want to root for the Yankees in Game 6 of the World Series on Wednesday night. A coincidental sports indicator shows that a Yankee victory in the series has historically been bullish for the stock market.
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Firm: Texas A&M Facility Wasn't Built to Code
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Arts, Briefly: ABC’s ‘V’ Rises to Top Spot in Ratings
ABC’s new science-fiction series, “V,” a remake of the 1983 mini-series, opened to strong ratings on Tuesday.
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Martinez Has Proved Tough in Elimination Games
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Revenue and Profit Declines at Time Warner
Earning per share topped analysts’ forecast, despite poor results at the media conglomerate’s AOL and Time Inc units.
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Fox News Takes Tuesday Night
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Adults Told to Hold Off Getting Seasonal Flu Vaccine
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Going Tribal in Afghanistan
Some writers are making a provocative argument for a new strategy in Afghanistan: embed small, highly skilled and almost completely autonomous units with tribes across the country.
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The Very Quiet Season of Michael Vick
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BlogTalk: And Now, a Word From the North Country
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Wednesday's News of Hockey, 11/4/09: O.H.L. Suspends Player for Rest of Season
O.H.L. Commissioner David Branch issued a stiff sentence to Michael Liambas for injuring Ben Fanelli with a check from behind.
Cisco’s Results Offer More Hope to Tech Industry
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Off the Wall: White House Drops Painting
A work of art originally designated for borrowing by the Obamas has been deleted from their selections.
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The Kronos Quartet and the pipa virtuoso Wu Man presented an ambitious, idiosyncratic program of Chinese music at Zankel Hall on Tuesday.
Dance Review | Han Tang Yuefu Music and Dance Ensemble of Taiwan: Lives Gently Unscrolled Across a Stage
“The Feast of Han Xizai” from the Han Tang Yuefu Music and Dance Ensemble of Taiwan opened Tuesday night at the Joyce Theater.
Dance Review | Han Tang Yuefu Music and Dance Ensemble of Taiwan: Lives Gently Unscrolled Across a Stage
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Music Review | Perspectives: Kronos Quartet': Evocations of Chinese Life and Traditions, the Real and the Imagined
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State of the Art: Call It an ‘App Phone’ (A What?)
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Frank Seeks Stricter Derivatives Bill
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Obama Uses Malia's Test Scores as a Teaching Example
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Fete Accompli | Mr. Chow's 30th Anniversary
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Bernard Kerik May Accept Plea Deal
Former Police Commissioner Bernard B. Kerik would resolve three criminal trials by pleading guilty to a single conspiracy charge.
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Mavizen TTX02: Plug-and-Play Racing for the People
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Reader's Digest Closes Rick Warren Magazine
Less than a year after launching a hybrid magazine and membership organization, Reader's Digest Association and the minister Rick Warren said Wednesday that they're pulling the plug.
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A day after the Lisbon Treaty won approval, Belgium’s prime minister, Herman Van Rompuy, emerged as the favorite become the E.U.’s first president.
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Staten Island Elects Its First Black Council Member
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Howard H. Roberts Jr. had been in charge of subways and buses. He started as president of New York City Transit in 2007.
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Ex - NBA Referee Released From Jail
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The chief executive of Infosys, a leading Indian outsourcing firm, says that technology is making his employees more efficient -- which ends up costing some of them their jobs.
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Girardi Dissected as Yankees Try for Series Title
NEW YORK (AP) -- When Joe Girardi left the dugout every few minutes to switch relievers against the Angels, some wondered whether he was getting paid per pitching change.
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Three and a half months to go until the 2010 Winter Olympics.
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An unusually large number of star N.H.L. players are currently injured and some think the game's speed, intensity and parity are responsible.
U.S. Diplomat Allowed Rare Visit With Burmese Dissident
A U.S. diplomat said Washington would improve ties with Myanmar if the country’s military government embraced reconciliation with its democratic opposition.
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A genetic analysis helped solve some of the mystery about the origins of a species that was once found on islands off the Argentinian coast.
Colts' Hagler Out For Season With Injury
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Indianapolis Colts linebacker Tyjuan Hagler has been ruled out for the rest of the season with ruptured biceps, the NFL team said on Wednesday.
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Rubin Kazan held Barcelona to a tie in Russia, two weeks after defeating the European champion in Spain.
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Alabama Case Costs JPMorgan Over $700 Million
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Music Review | American Modern Ensemble: Creative Confections for Woodwinds and Strings
Devoting a program to Minimalist and microtonal compositions could easily amount to an egghead agenda; leave it to the American Modern Ensemble to make it a party instead.
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Devoting a program to Minimalist and microtonal compositions could easily amount to an egghead agenda; leave it to the American Modern Ensemble to make it a party instead.
Statoil Sells U.S. Oil Interest to Chinese Company
Statoil, the Norwegian energy giant, said Wednesday that it had sold partial interest in some of its American energy development leases to Cnooc of China, marking the first time that a Chinese company would take an ownership interest in energy asset in...
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The former House majority leader Dick Armey has taken his politics and ideas to the right-wing protest movement.
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Fed Sees No Need to Raise Rates Soon
The Federal Reserve signaled on Wednesday that it isn’t close to raising interest rates, saying the economy remains weak.
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Ex-NBA Referee Donaghy Released From Jail
BROOKSVILLE, Fla. (AP) -- Disgraced former NBA referee Tim Donaghy was a free man Wednesday after serving most of a 15-month sentence in a gambling scandal.
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Browns' Lewis Going Ahead With Retirement Plans
BEREA, Ohio (AP) -- Cleveland Browns running back Jamal Lewis hasn't changed his mind about retiring after this season.
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