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A starry `Country Girl’ gets an inert Broadway revival (AP)
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AP - “The theater is mysterious,” murmurs the title character at one point during “The Country Girl” one of the more pretentious (but true) pronouncements in Clifford Odets’ 1950 backstage potboiler about an alcohol-soaked actor attempting a comeback.
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CollegeHumor site finds ad niche in sponsorships (Reuters)
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Reuters - CollegeHumor.com’s founders want to
help their audience members fulfill “their stupidest wish ever”
– maybe a machine to dress them in the morning or a chute from
their bedroom to the front door.
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Gibbs has another franchise player (AP)
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AP - Maybe Joe Gibbs can afford to let Tony Stewart go.
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Oil nears $120 a barrel on supply concerns (AP)
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AP - Oil prices hit an all-time high near $120 a barrel Monday after a weekend refinery strike closed a pipeline system that delivers a third of Britain’s North Sea oil to refineries in the U.K.
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Solar power, weeds and algae to fuel armed forces of future
“Britain’s armed forces could acquire a new tinge of green under plans to end the military dependency on fossil fuels.”
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Students Move as Immigrants Do
“School data shows exodus of immigrants leaving Pr. William for Arlington, Alexandria and Fairfax.
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North Korea welcomes torch with rally (Reuters)
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Reuters - North Koreans waved flags, plastic
flowers and danced in the streets of Pyongyang to welcome the
Olympic torch on Monday after the destitute state had promised
its main benefactor China an “astonishing” show.
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R&R back on track as Kitty Hawk visits Hong Kong (Reuters)
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Reuters - The USS Kitty Hawk aircraft carrier
docked in Hong Kong on Monday for the first time since Beijing
banned a visit last November, with its rear admiral saying such
U.S. navy port calls were now back on course.
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Iran discusses “serious” nuclear ideas with Russia (Reuters)
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Reuters - Iran has prepared a package of “serious”
proposals to help defuse a nuclear row with world powers, chief
nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili said on Monday after talks with
a top Russian official.
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Israeli fire kills mother, 4 children in Gaza: medics (Reuters)
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Reuters - Israeli fire hit a house in the Gaza Strip
on Monday while a family was eating breakfast inside, killing
six Palestinians, including a mother and four of her children,
residents and medical officials said.
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