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 HAMAS GUNMEN SEIZE PRESIDENT’S OFFICE: Masked gunmen have been photographed posing at the desk of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas as Hamas consolidated power in Gaza after defeating the rival Fatah faction. Hamas overtook the presidential compound in Gaza City on Friday, throwing large framed photos of late president Yasser Arafat and Abbas to the ground. Photographs taken by journalists in the compound showed one gunman with his foot on a photo of Arafat, the founder of Fatah. Another photo showed three masked gunmen at the president’s desk, with their rifles pointed in the air. Reuters reported that one of the fighters picked up the phone and jokingly pretended to be speaking with the U.S. secretary of state saying: “Hello Condoleezza Rice. You have to deal with me now, there is no Abu Mazen anymore.” Abu Mazen is another name for Abbas, also the Fatah leader. Bloodthirsty Hamas terrorists celebrated their conquest of the Gaza Strip by executing Palestinian rivals, drawing up a death list and declaring a new era of “Islamic rule.” Several men loyal to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas were shot point-blank in the streets, in front of their wives and children, after their hideout in the Palestinian security headquarters in Gaza City was stormed, witnesses said.
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ARNIE: SPANISH TV A TURNOFF: Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger told Latino journalists this week that Spanish-speaking immigrants who want to learn English should shun the Spanish-language media. “You’ve got to turn off the Spanish television,” he said Wednesday in a panel discussion at the 25th annual National Association of Hispanic Journalists convention. Schwarzenegger angered Latinos last year by saying Mexicans had problems succeeding here because “they try to stay Mexican.” This time, he said other immigrants learn English faster because they don’t have as many outlets in their native tongues.
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U.S. TO KEEP EUROPE AS SITE FOR MISSILE DEFENSE: Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates made clear Thursday that the United States would not alter plans to deploy parts of a missile defense system in Poland and the Czech Republic, despite an unexpected proposal by President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia to use a radar base in Azerbaijan instead.
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NEW SHOT: Senate leaders agreed yesterday to revive a stalled immigration overhaul after lawmakers worked out a plan to overcome conservatives’ objections to a bill that would legalize millions of immigrants.
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OFF YOU GO: A federal judge said yesterday he will not delay a 21/2-year prison sentence for Lewis “Scooter” Libby in the CIA leak case, a ruling that could send the former White House aide to prison within weeks.
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DON IMUS IS OUT, BUT NOBODY IS IN SAYS MEDIA EXPERT: Two months after Don Imus’ firing from his radio show, a variety of fill-ins have been considered, including John McEnroe and David Gregory. According to media expert and author Michael Levine, CBS Radio is taking its time in replacing Imus, trying to avoid a repeat of the fiasco when David Lee Roth was hired to replace Howard Stern. “They know lots of attention will be given to their choice so they want to make sure and get it right.”
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GUILTY: A federal jury yesterday convicted reputed Klansman James Ford Seale of kidnapping and conspiracy in the 1964 deaths of two black teenagers in southwest Mississippi.
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 LBN-COMMENTARY By RUDY GIULIANI: I am making 12 Commitments to the American People. They are intended to lift our vision from the rearview mirror to the road ahead. If I am elected president, I want to be held accountable for the progress we make as a nation.
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REMAINS LEGAL: Same-sex marriage will remain legal in Massachusetts, as its proponents won a pitched months-long battle.
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LBN-COMMENTARY By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: Comprehensive immigration reform is in jeopardy because it is a complex compromise with too many moving parts and too many competing interests. Employers want a guest worker program; unions want to kill it. Reformers want to introduce a point system that preferentially admits skilled and educated immigrants; immigrant groups naturally want to keep the existing family preference system. Liberals want legalization now; conservatives insist on enforcement “triggers” first.
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LBN-NOTICED: ***Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen marked their coming of age - to drink legally - with a “low-key” 21st birthday at Chateau Marmont in Hollywood Wednesday night. ***Ivanka Trump flying home in business class from L.A. on a turbulent flight that also carried estates lawyer Herb Nass.
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LBN-SPORTS INSIDER: ***Finals M.V.P. Tony Parker scored 24 points, as the Spurs won their fourth championship since 1999.
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LBN-COMMENTARY By LEONARD MALTIN: My top 5 films: E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (”I cried”), The Unbearable Lightness of Being (”Lena Olin has one of the sexiest performances I have ever seen”), Pulp Fiction (”It shook everything up. American movies haven’t been the same since”), Fargo (”great characters, great dialogue”) and The Sixth Sense (”unexpected and original”)
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LBN-COMMENTARY By DAVID BROOKS: A Harris poll suggested that more than 40 percent of Americans would use genetic engineering to upgrade their children mentally and physically.
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 LBN-HOLLYWOOD INSIDER: ***Johnny Depp swashbuckled his way up Forbes list of the most powerful celeb rities of 2007 - cashing in on both his media and box-office appeal to rake in $92 million in the past year. ***Variety’s Peter Bart received the inaugural lifetime achievement award at Thursday’s Mirror Awards, sponsored by Syracuse U.’s Newhouse School. ***Kelly Clarkson’s summer tour was canceled Thursday, and immediately, two sides of the story emerged: Clarkson said, “Touring is just too much right now”; the promoter said tickets weren’t selling. ***Lou Pearlman, the boy-band mogul of the late 1990s who became a fugitive earlier this year, was expelled by Indonesian authorities Thursday and turned over to the FBI. ***Michael Moore’s new documentary “Sicko” has been pirated and is now widely available for download on peer-to-peer content sites.
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LBN-COMMENTARY By MICHAEL LEVINE: ***Never beg for love. ***Never mistake intelligence for wisdom. ***Never marry someone you wouldn’t choose as your best friend. ***Never confront a postal worker after the holidays. ***Never deny the power of Elvis. *** Never shake hands with someone if you have a cold. ***Never roll up the sleeves of a T Shirt. ***Never wait in a doctor’s waiting room for longer than half an hour. ***Never date your friends’ ex lovers. ***Never believe all tall guys play basketball. — Excerpt from the new book “Never”
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LBN-MEDIA INSIDER: ***News Corp. chief Rupert Murdoch is preparing to sell his waterfront home on Long Island’s North Shore for $14.8 million, according to a broker retained by the family. The asking price for the home is nearly double what Murdoch and his wife, Wendi, paid four years ago. ***The New York Times Co. says that advertising revenue from continuing operations dropped 8.5% in May as national, retail and classified ads all declined. However, Internet ad revenue for the New York Times, New England and Regional media groups surged 21.4%. ***Oprah Winfrey tops this year’s Forbes Celebrity 100, the magazine’s annual list of the world’s most powerful celebrities. “The media queen is poised to conquer prime time this fall with two reality shows for ABC,” says Forbes. The Oprah empire already includes a magazine and a talk show.
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LBN-COMMENTARY By NINA ZAGAT AND TIM ZAGAT: When authentic Chinese cuisines reach our shores, we can expect a revolution in ingredients and styles that will change the way we prepare food for years to come.
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LBN-BOOK NEWS: ***The Princess Diana biography by Tina Brown is going back for a second printing, indicating that it might be pulling ahead in the race to be the Princess Diana book of the summer.
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LBN-BUSINESS NEWS: ***Crude oil rose to a nine-month high on concern that U.S. refineries are failing to keep up with growing gasoline demand, and after Iran said it isn’t willing to suspend its nuclear program.
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RISING RATE: The fallout from rising yields on the 10-year Treasury note is likely to be felt most immediately by homeowners and people looking to buy a house.
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 HOW MANY POSHES DOES IT TAKE TO FILL A PAIR OF JEANS?: Victoria Beckham celebrated the launch of her dVb denim line by holding up a huge pair of jeans at SAKS in NY on Thursday … and by huge we mean Size 2! But fear not, all you non-malnourished fashionistas, even Suri Cruise’s jeans look big next to Bony Beckham!
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LBN-DID YOU KNOW?
1. Blackboard chalk contains no chalk?
2. Honeybees are the only insect that creates a form of food for humans?
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5. Kangaroo can jump 30 feet?
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 LBN-OVERHEARD: ***Naomi Campbell has made nice with the former personal assistant she allegedly smacked. The phone-flinging femme has quietly settled ex-assistant Amanda Brack’s sensational lawsuit that charged Campbell with “assault, battery [and] intentional infliction of emotional distress,” court papers show. ***A globetrotting Bill Clinton raked in a whopping $10 million last year on the speaking circuit - his most successful year since leaving the Oval Office - pushing the former first couple’s nest egg to as much as $50 million. ***Deborah Norville’s dad Zack, the Dr. Doolittle of Dalton, Ga., has five donkeys, two emus, a zebra named Stripes, a black mule named Belle, camels Clyde and Claude, four buffalo, four water buffalo, four bison buffalo. ***Matthew McConaughey – frequently photographed shirtless and exercising on the beach — is People magazine’s “bachelor of the year.”
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LBN-QUOTE: “I see Iraq here. There is no mercy. We are afraid. See how ferocious this fight was? There is no future for us.”—–GHASSAN HASHEM, 37, a civil servant, on Palestinian strife in Gaza.
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LBN-HISTORY: On June 15, 1904, more than 1,000 people died when fire erupted aboard the steamboat General Slocum in New York City’s East River.
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