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Blast Near Italian School Kills Teen

Angel — Sat, 19 May 2012 23:32:43 +0000

By STACY MEICHTRY An explosion outside of a school in southern Italy leaves a 16-year-old girl dead, wounds others. Video: Reuters ROME—A bomb exploded outside a school in southern Italy on Saturday, killing a teenage girl and wounding 10 others, in an attack that raised fears Italy could again fall victim to violence by Mafia [...]

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Brotherhood Across Battle Lines

Angel — Sat, 19 May 2012 21:58:12 +0000

By KRISTIN M. JONES The great French director Jean Renoir (1894–1979) recalled that when he directed “La Grande illusion” (“Grand Illusion,” 1937), he partly drew its style from a song that a character plays on a flute. As thrilling and heartbreaking as that piece of music, and filled with imaginative yet naturalistic performances, it depicts [...]

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SpaceX Aborts Rocket Launch

Angel — Sat, 19 May 2012 17:51:32 +0000

By ANDY PASZTOR Launch of the first private spacecraft aimed at docking with the international space station was scrubbed at the last split-second early Saturday, due to a technical problem with one of the rocket’s multiple engines during ignition. Reuters The SpaceX Falcon 9 test rocket in Cape Canaveral, Fla. on Saturday. Closely held Space [...]

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Windows Phone claims 7% market share in China in just two months

Angel — Sat, 19 May 2012 17:33:31 +0000

Microsoft officially launched Windows Phone in China back in March and only two months later, the company has captured 7 percent of the market share in the region. This is a significant number as the iPhone only has a 6 percent share despite being on the market for a longer period of time, according to [...]

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Allegations against me sickening, I am relieved: Luke

Angel — Sat, 19 May 2012 14:09:43 +0000

Molestation case: RCB player Luke Pomersbach granted bail NEW DELHI: Australian cricketer Luke Pomersbach, who has been accused of molesting an American woman and assaulting her fiance, on Saturday said that he was “very relieved” to have been granted bail and has full faith in the judicial system in India. The 27-year-old cricketer, who plays [...]

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Golf’s Worst Enemy Rears Its Head

Angel — Sat, 19 May 2012 12:45:52 +0000

The PGA Tour has a pace-of-play policy that works well—for the PGA Tour, if not for the broader good of the game. “It’s pretty stern,” the Tour’s director of competitions, Tyler Dennis, told me this week. At the Tour’s flagship event last week, the Players Championship, the policy kept play moving along satisfactorily, by the [...]

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Blind Chinese Activist to Depart for U.S.

Angel — Sat, 19 May 2012 08:32:34 +0000

Associated Press BEIJING—A blind Chinese activist whose escape from a rural village set off a diplomatic tussle between Beijing and Washington said Saturday that he was at an airport waiting to leave for the U.S. Associated Press A van with covered windows leaves in a convoy under a tight security from the hospital where blind [...]

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For Gupta Trial, Tension and Tips

Angel — Sat, 19 May 2012 07:51:38 +0000

By MICHAEL ROTHFELD and SUSAN PULLIAM A week before his arrest in October 2009, hedge-fund titan Raj Rajaratnam had a tense conversation over a soured investment with Rajat Gupta, his friend who was on the board of Goldman Sachs Group Inc. Mr. Gupta was upset and blamed Mr. Rajaratnam, who had managed their joint investment [...]

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The Architect of Awesome Ripping

Angel — Sat, 19 May 2012 06:58:24 +0000

By STEVE KNOPPER Christopher McEniry for The Wall Street Journal Tim Payne at one of his newest projects, the not-yet-opened Apollo Beach Park, Apollo, Fla. ‘You can’t get the guys to stop skating,’ he said. ‘That’s when you know you’ve done a good job.’ One day in 1972, a friend from the beach rolled up [...]

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Red Tape Hobbles a Harvest of Life-Saving Rice

Angel — Sat, 19 May 2012 06:40:37 +0000

This week saw the announcement of the latest conclusions of the Copenhagen Consensus, a project founded by Bjørn Lomborg in which expert economists write detailed papers every four years and then gather to vote on the answer to a simple question: Imagine you had $ 75 billion to donate to worthwhile causes. What would you [...]

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