News outfits are reporting that Leon Panetta has been tapped by President-elect Barack Obama to take over the Central Intelligence Agency. It's an unusual choice, for Panetta, a former Democratic congressman who became President Bill Clinton's budget chief and then his White House chief of staff, …
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Senate Democrat bucks party over Burris
Roland Burris was denied entry to the Senate chambers today as he tried to claim the seat once held by President-elect Barack Obama. Burris said the secretary of the Senate rejected his credentials, and therefore he would not be allowed access to the…
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Stooges Guitarist Ron Asheton Found Dead In Michigan Home
Cause of death is still unknown for guitarist, who founded Stooges with Iggy Pop in 1967. By James Montgomery The Stooges' Ron Asheton in 2007 Photo: Tim Mosenfelder/Getty Images Ron Asheton, an original member of influential proto-punks the Stooges, was found dead in his Ann Arbor, Michigan, home early Tuesday morning (January 6). …
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Stimulus arithmetic (wonkish but important)
Stimulus arithmetic (wonkish but important) Bit by bit we’re getting information on the Obama stimulus plan, enough to start making back-of-the-envelope estimates of impact. The bottom line is this: we’re probably looking at a plan that will shave less than 2 percentage points off the average unemployment rate for the next two years, and possibly quite a lot less. …
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33 Twitter Accounts Hacked - Obama, Fox News, Britney Spears Affected
33 Twitter accounts were hacked on Monday, mostly celeb ones it seems. According to the Twitter blog the hackers managed to use an internal admin tool to get into the account, and the team is considering this a serious security breach. This comes just after the phishing scam this weekend, which was a separate incident. …
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New iTunes features include 3G downloads, tiered pricing, and no more DRM
We sure did have some fun at the MacWorld keynote today, huh? Apple announced a slew of updates, Peter yelled at Coldplay, and we learned about some changes to how iTunes is going to work from here on out. Good changes, too — not like the day I showed up for eighth grade and found that my pant legs were about five inches from my shoes and my voice sounded like Yoko Ono warbling. …
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Scratch That — Coulter Headed To Today
WowOWow.com reports, and NBC confirms to TVNewser, that Ann Coulter will appear for two segments on the Today show tomorrow. So after NBC canceled yesterday and Drudge Report said Coulter was "banned for life," then she went on "Hannity & Colmes" and knocked NBC's offer, then went on CBS today, she'll be interviewed on NBC after all. …
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Say hello to iWork 09: Like iWork 08, but plus one
Whoever predicted that Apple would introduce iWork ‘09 today gets a gold star. Keynote, Pages and Numbers all received what I would consider minor updates; no need to run around all willy nilly for these, methinks. First shown was Keynote, which Phil Schiller, ever the showman, noted was used to make the very presentation so many of us were looking for to. …
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LAURA BUSH GETS $1.6M ADVANCE
First Lady Laura Bush snagged a seven-figure deal to write her life story for the Scribner imprint of Simon & Schuster. Bush is said to have received an advance of $1.6 million, according to one well-placed publishing source - although another...…
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Israeli Shells Kill 40 at Gaza U.N. School
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HOT FOR A-ROD
WHILE Madonna entertains herself with Brazilian boy toy Jesus Luz, she's apparently willing to share her other man, Alex Rodriguez, with her kabbalah friends. A-Rod flew into Parrot Cay to ring in the New Year with Demi Moore, Ashton Kutcher...…
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FRONT-PAGE NEWS
The New York Times is shopping ad space on its once sacred front page for $75,000 on weekdays and $100,000 on Sundays, according to several ad buyers who asked to remain unnamed. The Gray Lady finally made the decision to break with longstanding...…
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Ariane Sherine: We did it! The atheist bus campaign is bigger and better then ever
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Tribune CDS recover 1.5 percent in auction
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Sellers of protection on Tribune Co's bonds are facing losses of 98.5 percent of the insurance they sold, based on the results of an auction on Tuesday to determine the value of the bankrupt company's credit default swaps.…
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When Good Extensions Happen to Good People
As we've mentioned before, we've been slow to jump on board the Anne Hathaway band wagon, although certain recent beauty moves have definitely helped steer us closer to a total embrace of the actress. First came her well-executed , followed…
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