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AL-QAEDA FIGURE IS KILLED IN PAKISTAN; SENIOR COMMANDER BLAMED IN BOMBING AT U.S. AFGHAN BASE: A senior al-Qaeda commander was killed this week in Pakistan, according to Western officials and an Islamic radical Web site, marking a rare success in the flagging U.S. and Pakistani campaign to hunt down members of the network. Abu Laith al-Libi, the nom de guerre of a Libyan fighter who had served alongside al-Qaeda and the Taliban since the late 1980s, had become an influential field commander in recent years, overseeing many operations against U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan, officials said. The U.S. military blamed him for organizing a suicide attack that killed 23 people outside Bagram air base during a visit by Vice President Cheney in February last year.
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 CHINA’S INFLATION HITS AMERICAN PRICE TAGS: China’s latest export is inflation. After falling for years, prices of Chinese goods sold in the United States have risen for the last eight months. Soaring energy and raw material costs, a falling dollar and new business rules here are forcing Chinese factories to increase the prices of their exports, according to analysts and Western companies doing business here.
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 LBN-MEDIA INSIDER: ***Mark Schwed spent 11 years as a writer and columnist at TV Guide, based in Hollywood, as well as working on-air on E! and the TV Guide Channel. Before that he was the TV critic for the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner. He was found dead today in his apartment in Florida, where he has been a feature writer for the Palm Beach Post for the past three years. He was 52. ***Jim “Poorman” Trenton, the former KROQ deejay who started “Loveline,” has sued the Orange County TV station for taking his latest show off the air after five weeks. ***Former L.A. Times movie critic Jack Mathews says he’ll retire from the New York Daily News at the end of February. He and his wife are moving to the Oregon coast. ***Janet Clayton stepped down last year as the L.A. Times editor in charge of Metro and California coverage, which followed a long stint as editor of the editorial pages. Today she was announced as the president of ThinkCure, the McCourt’s new Dodgers charity. ***Star Jones is the first casualty of Court TV’s re-launch as Tru TV. Last night, the network canceled her daily talk show, with today’s episode the last, and said in a statement: “Star will continue as a contributing legal expert to our weekday trial coverage. ***Stars including Scarlett Johannson, Josh Brolin and Natalie Portman made impassioned pleas to Entertainment Tonight and The Insider, asking them not to air their much-touted Heath Ledger drug video. The celebs, as wells as several heads of top publicity firms, plead “human to human” with producers for the CBS Paramount show. ***Terry Semel has quit as chairman of the board of Yahoo, the company said late Thursday. The end to Semel’s association with Yahoo comes seven months after he was replaced as CEO by company co-founder Jerry Yang.
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 LBN-NOTICED: ***Producer and former super-model Ann Turkel having dinner last night at the Garden’s on Glendon in Westwood ***Prince demands royal treatment even at a friend’s birthday bash. The diminutive funkster refused to go into his old pal Benny Medina’s 50th birthday bash at Medina’s Hollywood home last weekend until the host walked him in personally. Prince had to wait for a few minutes while Medina, a creator of “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air,” was dragged off the dance floor where he was boogieing with Mariah Carey, Jermaine Dupri, Janet Jackson and LA Reid. Be an LBN-Correspondent – send your celeb sightings to LBNElert@TimeWire.net.
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 LBN-SEE IT:…..Actress Amy Irving, the 54-year-old curly-haired natural brunette and former “Alias” star turned up at a NYC premiere on Wednesday…..
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 LBN-POLITICAL BRIEFING By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: There was general amazement when (the now-muzzled) Bill Clinton did his red-faced, attack-dog, race-baiting performance in South Carolina. Friends, Democrats and longtime media sycophants were variously perplexed, repulsed, enraged, mystified and shocked that this beloved ex-president would so jeopardize his legacy by stooping so low. What they don’t understand is that for Clinton, there is no legacy. What he was doing on the low road from Iowa to South Carolina was fighting for a legacy — a legacy that he knows history has denied him and that he has but one chance to redeem.
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LBN-BUSINESS INSIDER: ***Russell “Rusty” Hammer, the former president of the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce, died Monday evening after a long battle with a rare form of leukemia. Hammer came south from Sacramento to direct the chamber in 2001 and stepped down in 2006 after being diagnosed. ***Google Inc., the most popular Internet search engine, declined the most in two years in Nasdaq trading after fourth-quarter profit missed analysts’ estimates and Microsoft Corp. offered to buy rival Yahoo! Inc. Google fell $39.64, or 7 percent, to $524.66 at 9:41 a.m. New York time on the Nasdaq Stock Market after falling as low as $521, the biggest drop since January 2006. ***The Labor Department report was much weaker than anticipated, though the unemployment rate eased to 4.9 percent as workers dropped out of the labor pool.
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BERKELEY COUNCIL TELLS MARINES TO LEAVE: Hey-hey, ho-ho, the Marines in Berkeley have got to go. That’s the message from the Berkeley City Council, which voted 6-3 Tuesday night to tell the U.S. Marines that its Shattuck Avenue recruiting station “is not welcome in the city, and if recruiters choose to stay, they do so as uninvited and unwelcome intruders.”
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LBN-PRESIDENTIAL BACK ROOM: ***Gov. Rick Perry on Thursday announced his endorsement of presidential candidate John McCain. Perry said he is backing McCain, because he is the candidate who would do the most for and win the war on terror.
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 LBN-COMMENTARY By MARGARET CHO: I think most babies are born Democrats. Have you ever hung out with a baby with a toy? Usually, if you smile at them and show some interest in the toy, they will give it to you.
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L-LIST EVENT: Two-time Oscar winning Director and Screenwriter Paul Haggis (Crash; Letters From Iwo Jima; Casino Royale; Million Dollar Baby) returns to Rocket Video on Tuesday, February 19th at 7:00pm.
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LBN-OVERHEARD: ***A burglar posing as a construction worker broke into “60 Minutes” reporter Lesley Stahl’s Upper West Side penthouse and carted off more than $100,000 worth of jewelry and electronics, police said. The brazen bandit stole several diamond watches, a pearl necklace, earrings, and gold and silver necklaces in the heist last Friday, cops said. ***Julie Christie never wanted to get married — but never say never. The perennial bachelorette has finally tied the knot at 66 with British journalist Duncan Campbell. The ceremony took place in India two months ago, but was so top-secret it only came to light this week.
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LBN-DID YOU KNOW? ***A new book is published about every 13 minutes in America during business hours. ***During your lifetime, you’ll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that’s the weight of about 6 elephants. ***Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair. ***February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon ***John Quincy Adams, sixth president of the United States, loved to skinny dip in the Potomac River.
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LBN-LYRIC OF LIFE: Tell your boyfriend next time he around To buy his own weed and don’t wear my shit down I wouldn’t care if brave would give me some more I’d rather him leave you than leave him my draw When you smoke all my weed man You gots to call the green man So I can get mine And you get yours—–Amy Winehouse.
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LBN-QUOTE: “So it goes”–Kurt Vonnegut
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LBN-HISTORY: On Feb. 1, 1960, four black college students began a sit-in protest at a lunch counter in Greensboro, N.C., where they’d been refused service.
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