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BURLINGTON, Mass.--Sun Microsystems will create an open-source project around its Solaris 10 operating system by the end of the year, company executives said Monday.
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( InfoWorld ) - An operation that allegedly installed illegal spyware on computers will give more than US$2 million to settle a U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) complaint. The FTC has obtained a settlement order against Enternet Media Inc., Conspy & Co. Inc., Lida Rohbani, Nima Hakimi and Baback Hakimi, all based in...
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COMPIEGNE, France (Reuters) - There will be much to lose and little to gain in Wednesday's fourth stage of the Tour de France.
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Reuters - An Australian terror suspect was offered the services of a prostitute by the U.S. military if he agreed to spy on other detainees held at the Guantanamo Bay base in Cuba, according to court documents. In an affidavit unsealed by a U.S. District Court and seen by Reuters on Friday, David Hicks, a 29-year-old c...
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DURHAM, NC -- Two students from the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics will split $100,000 in scholarship money. The award is a prize for their cancer research.
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BELFAST, Northern Ireland (Reuters) - Protestant calls for photographic proof of Irish Republican Army disarmament could sink efforts to secure a lasting settlement in Northern Ireland, the Catholic guerrilla group's political ally said Monday.
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New England Patriots defensive back Willie Andrews pleads not guilty to drug possession in Lowell, Mass., hours after authorities say they found him with a half-pound of marijuana.
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Pistons coach Larry Brown came back to the defending NBA champions on crutches Wednesday, returning to Detroit's bench after being told by doctors it was OK to travel.
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CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) - Canada may have found a new case of mad cow disease, officials said on Thursday, rekindling tensions in its hard-hit beef industry just one day after the United States announced plans to reopen the border to live Canadian cattle.
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No one has been more dominating against National League hitters at home than Cubs starter Carlos Zambrano. And Zambrano looked as if he would be at his finest Monday night at Wrigley Field.
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Antwerp, Belgium (Sports Network) - AC Milan striker Filippo Inzaghi will be out for three months after undergoing surgery Monday on his injured left ankle.
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IBM's global services organization is adding "health check" services to its repertoire of technical services for SOA deployments, looking to assist users dealing with issues resulting from poor planning or partnerships with inexperienced or so-called proprietary IT vendors. The company also is offering its "identity-aw...
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LONDON, England -- A massive rescue operation is continuing for 15 people missing from a flood-ravaged coastal town in southwestern England.
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AP - Overcoming a poor history can be tough in sports. Keeping a strong team consistently on top might be even harder.
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PARIS (Reuters) - The biggest rogue trader scandal in history hit Societe Generale on Thursday as the French bank accused a junior employee of a fraud costing $7 billion.
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By Stacy Brandt, North County Times, Escondido, Calif. May 24--OCEANSIDE -- Two classes at Roosevelt Middle School will begin using laptop computers for their day-to-day lessons this fall, thanks to a grant from a national corporation.
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Vodafone yesterday announced plans to raise an additional £2.5bn a year through cost savings and increasing its market share within the next four years.
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The last time Jonny Wilkinson parked his backside on the visitors' bench at Murrayfield, it remained firmly planted there. Back in March 1998, three days before his Premiership
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LAHORE, Nov 20: President Pervez Musharraf on Saturday ruled out any unilateral stepping back by Pakistan from its historical stand over Kashmir and asked India to show courage
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Reuters - U.S. shares are expected to fall on Thursday as investors wrestle with worries about inflation, interest rates and economic growth, with economically sensitive sectors such as technology likely to be hurt again.
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Company(TM), today introduced the first in a new family of durable enterprise digital assistant (EDA) products specifically designed for business essential applications within the enterprise environment.
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AP - The University of Oklahoma has taken the first step to appealing a ruling by the NCAA that stripped the football team of its 2005 wins and found the university guilty of "failure to monitor" the employment of its athletes.
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Computational biologists at IBM develop an anti-spam filter that works in the same way scientists analyse DNA.
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NEW YORK—World oil prices rose yesterday as concerns over a supply shortage after Hurricane Ivan persisted despite news the United States will lend some oil from its reserves to refineries to make up for lost production.
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Kazakhstan sends a team of prosecutors to Vienna to try and arrest the son-in-law of the Kazakh president.
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AP - Thousands of children's books are published in the United States each year, so finding the perfect book for that favorite niece or nephew won't be easy. It wouldn't hurt to have a little help. With that in mind, the Center for Children's Books at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has created an online...
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Employees wonder whether their Silicon Valley 'work hard, play hard' approach would be quashed by an acquisition.
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When No. 6 Dartmouth travels to No. 4 Foxboro tonight, it will be a matchup of two vastly different football teams, with their only similarity being proximity in the rankings.
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THE HAGUE (Reuters) - The highest U.N. court cleared the Serbian state on Monday of direct responsibility for genocide in Bosnia during the 1992-95 war, but said it had violated its responsibility to prevent genocide.
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Eidur Gudjohnsen hit his first ever hat-trick as Chelsea overcame their striker problems to crush Blackburn Rovers 4-0 and keep hot on the tails of leaders Arsenal in the Premier League on Saturday.
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AFP - South Africa are to appeal the four match ban handed out to star back row forward Schalk Burger which would see him miss Friday's crucial World Cup clash with England.
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Reuters - Ford Motor Co faces stronger headwinds than it anticipated when launching a turnaround plan but has ruled out seeking court protection from creditors, its chief executive was quoted as saying in the Wall Street Journal on Thursday.
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The first week of the US Open concludes on Sunday with Andy Roddick and Serena Williams the star attractions at Flushing Meadows. While many New Yorkers head out
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CARACAS, August 22 (Itar-Tass) -- President of Venezuela Hugo Chavez has called on the opposition to recognize the results of a referendum on confidence in the president held on August 15.
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Local government in UK says it didn't use the open-source OS as a bargaining chip; Microsoft was simply best option.
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AFP - A Portuguese investigating magistrate was considering Wednesday what further lines of inquiry to pursue after receiving the file on missing British girl Madeleine McCann.
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ATHENS -- He was behind at the start. He was behind at the turn. He was behind for 99.99 of the 100 meters. His head was behind Ian Crocker's head at the finish. And yet somehow last night, Michael Phelps won again -- for the fourth and final time in an individual race at these Olympics.
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BAGHDAD -- Three close associates of former president Saddam Hussein will move to the next stage of their legal cases before Christmas, when investigative judges will begin questioning them to gather facts for their trials, Iraqi government officials said
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AP - One-third of the bottle-nose dolphins swimming off Israel's Mediterranean coast are too thin, apparently due to a lack of food from overfishing, researcher said Tuesday.
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EL PASO, Texas (Ticker) -- Boise State got the sort of breaks that come with being a ranked team. The 23rd-ranked Broncos scored a pair of touchdowns on fumble recoveries in the end zone as they rallied for
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AFP - UN human rights chief Louise Arbour warned Monday that unpunished human rights violations -- including "pandemic" sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo -- are keeping central Africa on the brink of another major conflict.
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AFP - Nepal's government, Maoists and the United Nations may use retired Gurkhas, famed worldwide as professional soldiers, to monitor a ceasefire and move forward a peace process, the UN said.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks slipped on Wednesday after a private report showed U.S. home prices tumbled in October and retailer Target cut its December sales view.
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ZURICH (Reuters) - Swiss chocolate maker Lindt & Spruengli is considering buying Campbell Soup Co.'s Godiva Chocolatier brand, its chief executive told the Financial Times Deutschland newspaper.
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Reuters - Weyerhaeuser Co.'s third-quarter profit rose on higher prices for lumber and a large gain from the sale of timber lands in Georgia, the company said on Friday.
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Reuters - Whenever Lalibati, a poor farmer's wife in western India, falls sick, she heads for only one person: the local faith healer.
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Little Rock-based Alltel will expand its wireless phone service in Connecticut, Kentucky, Mississippi, Oklahoma and Texas in a $170 million deal with Cingular Wireless.
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Only nine days ago, the Bruins absorbed the thumping of the season. On Dec. 29, Atlanta laid a 5-0 smackdown on the Bruins - the second time in 2007-08 Boston has lost by five goals - that featured a misplay by starter Alex Auld that ended up in his net, a wobbler by defenseman Alexei Zhitnik that floated over the ...
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Google Code Search Exposes WinZip Serial Number Info Found via Digg.com, seems that some simple searches on the new Google Code Search will expose some rather valuable information. One searcher found the serial number algorithms for Winzip, Photoshop and mIRC. “Just by searching for “keygen”, “serial”, “name”, and some...
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AP - The Yankees did finish first in something last year — spending. While their streak of AL East titles ended at nine, the Yankees wound up with a record payroll of $218.3 million.
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Reuters - The U.S. economy grew at a weaker-than-expected 3.1 percent annual pace in the final quarter last year, its slowest since the beginning of 2003 as the country's trade performance deteriorated and inflation picked up, a government report on Friday showed.
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A leading Dutch prosecuter resigned yesterday after hackers entered his mail box and revealed yet another classified letter addressed to the public prosecutor's office.
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Privatisation and trade liberalisation policies foisted on developing countries in return for financial help are often bad for the poor, according to a confidential government paper.
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British Airways’ top directors, including chief executive Rod Eddington, will be helping out at Heathrow airport today as the airline strives to avoid the flight cancellation chaos of the last few days.
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KHARTOUM, Sudan (Reuters) - Villagers returning to their homes in Sudan's Darfur region are living in fear of the Arab militiamen who initially drove them away, the United Nations said in a report received by Reuters Monday.
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Every half-century or so, Virginia throws a party to commemorate the arrival of English colonists on its shores. This year comes a biggie: the 400th anniversary. The whole world's invited, and the guest list is especially long and prestigious.
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OSLO, Norway - Norwegian police said Monday that they were working on several tips in their search for two Edvard Munch masterpieces, including a version of "The Scream," after a bold daytime theft from an Oslo museum in front of stunned visitors. The paintings were stolen from Oslo's Munch Museum on Sunday by maske...
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Blog: For the first time, IBM launches an open beta for AIX 6 in an effort to attract new customers.
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All dressed up and nowhere to invest? Try one of Wall Street's ugly ducklings. You just might find a swan.
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AP - The White House expects to receive the Iraq funding bill this afternoon and says President Bush will sign it without fanfare.
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Ember, a start-up that is developing chips for ZigBee--a low-cost, low-power wireless networking standard--received $25 million in venture capital funding this week.
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Salt Lake-based Investools Inc. said Friday it will move its corporate headquarters to New York City and change its ticker symbol because it has completed its merger with thinkorswim Group Inc.
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Islamabad, Oct 31. (PTI): In the face of strong domestic criticism over his new formula to resolve Kashmir problem with India, President Pervez Musharraf on Saturday said Pakistan has not given up its principled
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A Canadian state pension fund and an Australian fund manager are linked with a bid for Anglian Water's owner.
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Crude oil futures were little changed near $50 a barrel as output in the Gulf of Mexico remained below normal two weeks after Hurricane Ivan struck the area.
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Uganda says it is about to sign a formal peace with LRA rebels in the north after 18 years of bloody conflict.
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Reuters - U.S. Treasury debt made moderate gains on Tuesday after a key reading of U.S. inflation proved softer than expected, a relief to investors in fixed-income debt.
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AP - The European Union head office called for closer coordination Monday among all member governments to hunt down and prosecute those illegally spreading unsolicited e-mails across the 25-nation bloc.
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AP - Justin Morneau drove in the go-ahead run with a sacrifice fly in the fifth inning before leaving when he was hit in the hand by a pitch, and the Minnesota Twins completed a three-game sweep of the Cleveland Indians with a 7-3 victory Sunday.
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's army has arrested a leading member of one of the country's most notorious drug cartels, the attorney-general's office said on Monday.
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AFP - Japan has admitted it would refuse to fund any deal on ending North Korea's nuclear ambitions without clear progress in a bilateral row over the communist state's abductions of Japanese nationals.
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ACCRA (Reuters) - A court in Ghana on Wednesday delayed for a second time the sentencing of two British teenagers found guilty of smuggling 6 kg (13 lbs) of cocaine to allow a social services report to be taken into consideration.
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Stocks were modestly higher at the opening, bolstered by hopes the economy will dodge a recession through new rate cuts and government stimulus efforts.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Twice former U.S. Open champion Serena Williams turned in a commanding performance to beat Lourdes Dominguez Lino of Spain 6-1 6-2 to reach the second round on Wednesday.
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South Korean police fought Saturday to quell thousands of rioting farmers in Seould after a rally against foreign rice imports, the BBC reported.
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The rate hasn’t changed since last June, and the Federal Reserve signaled that it will hold steady for some time.
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By JORDAN ROBERTSON SAN JOSE, Calif. - California's attorney general could file criminal charges within a week in the boardroom spying scandal at Hewlett-Packard Co., a spokesman said Wednesday, and experts say the company's top brass and third-party detectives are all possible targets.
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How dividend-paying stocks can boost your returns.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Film and television studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. MGM.N on Monday said it agreed in principle to be acquired by a consortium led by Sony Corp. of America for $12 a share in cash, plus assumed debt.
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Regulators have given scientists the green light to create human-animal embryos for research.
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BOSTON -- It's likely the federal government will be handing down a set of rules for voice communication over the Internet. FCC Chairman Michael Powell said he will seek a broad set of rules to cover what
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CraveOnline.com (http://craveonline.com/) today unleashed a unique form of what's now being called "branded video content.""Undressed" features a 30 second trailer as a teaser for a 2 minute parody of lingerie fashion shows from companies like Victoria's Secret and Frederick's of Hollywood.
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Blog: The Finnish cell phone manufacturer announces that it has bought the Redmond, Wash.-based start-up, which specializes in multimedia sharing.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon called Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday to congratulate him for winning the Palestinian presidential elections, the latest sign that the two sides are eager to restart peace efforts after years of stalemate.
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KANSAS City, Missouri (Reuters) - A federal judge on Monday issued a preliminary injunction banning the sale of Monsanto Co.'s genetically modified alfalfa and any planting of the seed after March 30.
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A spokesman for the People's Bank ofChina (POC) said Friday that the central bank welcomes the effortsmade by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in its staff report for 2004 Article IV consultation with the People's
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Amazon.com has added songs from Warner Music Group to the range it sells as MP3 files without DRM (digital rights management), the companies said Friday.
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Autonomy's Introspect e-discovery software now finds data stored in virtual environments.
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ATHENS, Greece -- If international gymnastics is a brick house, the mortar holding it together is a conglomerate of finger-pointing, dubious judging, scandal, complaining and bald-faced weeping.
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Connecticut placed assistant men's basketball coach Clyde Vaughan on paid administrative leave Thursday after his arrest in a prostitution sting.
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The senior United Nations envoy for Sudan Monday called on parties in the Darfur conflict to settle their political differences. Jan Pronk, UN Secretary-General
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former world champions Roy Jones and Felix "Tito" Trinidad have promised fireworks when they meet in Saturday's 12-round non-title fight at Madison Square Garden.
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Oil prices have showed little reaction to official data recording the first rise in US crude stocks in 10 weeks. The Energy Information Administration said stocks are 14% below the levels of November last
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Los Angeles, CA (Sports Network) - The Los Angeles Clippers Monday exercised the contract option for the 2005-06 season on forward Chris Wilcox.
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In the next 30 to 45 days, Mills Corp. will submit to Wilmington officials formal plans for two, 120-room hotels and a small restaurant on land off Interstate 93 in North Wilmington, according to David Wahr, a regional consultant to the company.
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The Tolkien Trust joined a private family trust of Tolkien heirs and the British arm of HarperCollins Publishers in suing New Line Cinema for breach of contract.
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FT.com - London stock markets were seen opening flat to lower on Friday after Wall Street losses overnight were prompted by comments from Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke about sluggish US growth.
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California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger laughs during a visit to an after-school program site at PS 129 in New York's Harlem neighborhood in this Wednesday, Sept.
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AP - President Bush on Friday intends to discuss ways to help the hundreds of thousands of borrowers hard hit by the housing slump and credit crunch that are rocking financial markets.
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Blog: Google announces a willingness to commit $4.6 billion to the Federal Communications Commission's upcoming wireless spectrum 700MHz band auction - with strings attached.
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