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 LBN-THE “INSIDE” STORY: The Iranian Supreme Leaders representative in Britain has told UK Muslim servicemen and women to quit the British Armed Forces, saying that their involvement in the Afghanistan and Iraq wars is forbidden by Islam. In his first interview with an English language newspaper, Ayatollah Abdolhossein Moezi (pictured above), Director of the Islamic Centre of England, also said he regretted that protesters were killed by the Iranian security forces after the presidential election there in June but that their deaths were unavoidable. The cleric, personally appointed by Irans Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to be his special envoy to the UK, also urged all Muslims to defeat the opposition to the Iranian regime. yatollah Moezi, the most senior Iranian spiritual leader in Britain with thousands of followers from the Shia sect, said that it was wrong for followers of Islam to serve in the Armed Forces, especially in Afghanistan and Iraq where Muslims were being killed. He said: Not only do I not accept it for Muslims to go there, I dont accept non-Muslims to go there as well. We say that Muslims are not allowed to go and kill Muslims. Do you think that Christians are allowed to go and kill Muslims?
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U.S., RUSSIA IMPATIENT WITH IRAN: President Obama and Russia’s President Dimitri Medvedev met in Singapore Sunday and shared displeasure over the current path of Iran’s nuclear ambitions, suggesting that increased sanctions may be the next step. “Unfortunately, so far at least, Iran appears to have been unable to say yes to what everyone acknowledges is a creative and constructive approach,” said Obama of the offer to have Iran send nuclear fuel out of the country.
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HOW AMERICA BACKS PAKISTANI SPIES: The CIA has given hundreds of millions of dollars to support Pakistan’s spy network since the September 11 attacks, contributing as much as a third of the foreign agency’s annual budget, the Los Angeles Times reported Sunday. Additionally, a secret State Department program pays Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence agency tens of millions of dollars for capturing or killing wanted militants, officials tell the newspaper.
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HAGGLING OVER MADOFF’S RICHES: A personalized Mets jacket went for $14,500, Cartier earrings sold for $70,000, and a diamond bracelet cost $50,000 in Saturday’s auction of Bernie Madoff’s personal items. The auction was held in the hopes of raising half a million dollars for the victims of the imprisoned investment manager. The sales brought in $1 million instead. Duck decoys taken from the Madoff’s Montauk, New York, vacation home went for $11,500 while being valued at less than $80a markup that only a Madoff could love. One woman bought a pair of Ruth Madoff’s Chanel boots. “I’m going to walk one day in her shoes and then judge her,” she told The Wall Street Journal.
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THE CHINA AGENDA: President Obama will likely spend more time reassuring Beijing than pushing reform.
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INVESTIGATION: Investigators are trying to determine whether Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan was a terrorist driven by extremism, a troubled loner, or both.
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SICK: The mother and father of slain Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl are disappointed with the federal government’s decision to try Pearl’s professed killer and Guantanamo detainee Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in New York City, according to The Hill. Pearl’s father, Judea Pearl, told the New York Post that the Justice Department’s decision made him “sick to the stomach.”
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EX-NJ GOV MCGREEVEY TRAINING TO BECOME PRIEST: “Gay American” Jim McGreevey is spending his Sunday mornings with a new man — Jesus. The former New Jersey love gov has gone from Turnpike rest stops to the church rostrum as part of his training to become an Episcopal priest, working each weekend at All Saints Church in Hoboken. McGreevey — who resigned from office in disgrace in 2004 — isn’t far enough along in his seminary studies to actually give sermons, but he assists the Rev. Geoffrey Curtiss at three Masses on Sunday and participates in parish programs, donation drives and activities.
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 CHEAP TALK: Despite all those wild pricing plans, American cell phone users spend about 5 cents a minute on talk time and a penny a text message lower than anywhere else in the developed world.
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LBN-BRUTAL FACT: Although considered Founding Fathers of the United States, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams did not sign the Constitution. They were serving as U.S. ministers overseas and did not attend the Constitutional Convention.
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 LBN-NOTICED: ***After impassioned speeches by Christiane Amanpour and Susan Sarandon, Cyndi Lauper took the stage at the Witness gala at Roseland in NYC the other night and sang six songs. “By the fourth song, everyone had left their tables and started dancing in front of the stage,” said a witness. ***Ashley and Mary-Kate Olsen, Mary-Louise Parker, Mira Sorvino and Anne Heche toasting Isaac Mizrahi at a party to celebrate his new live QVC show in NYC. ***Sean Lennon dining al fresco with eight friends at Da Silvano in NYC while chef Wolfgang Puck and his wife, Gelila, had a cozier table inside. ***Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher leaving the Gramercy Park Hotel in NYC hand-in-hand. ***Tyra Banks in Eskimix on Bleecker Street in NYC with a posse of four, getting frozen yogurt. ***Jessica Alba with husband Cash Warren buying new clothes for daughter Honor Marie at Fashionology boutique in Beverly Hills. ***Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Gwen Stefani, and Gavin Rossdale supported the arts at the MOCA New 30th Anniversary Gala at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art. ***Wentworth Miller grabbed a cup of coffee at French caf Sassafraz in Toronto, Canada. ***Marcia Cross and her twin girls Eden and Savannah went shopping for childrens books and educational toys at Borders Bookstore in Century City. ***Megan Fox stops by the Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf in Studio City, CA. ***Jessica Biel attends the Prada Book Launch event at the Prada store on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills. **BE AN LBN-CORRESPONDENT Send your celebrity sightings to LBNElert@TimeWire.net.
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 LBN-BUSINESS INSIDER: ***The Palm Restaurant in West Hollywood was chosen as “Steakhouse of the Year- 2009″ by new guide, 5 W Report (www.5WReport.com). ***The Michael Jackson memorial cost the city $3.2 million in staff costs and overtime, and generated $4 million in increase economic activity, the city’s chief legislative analyst said.
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LBN-HEALTH WATCH: According to researchers, children born to women who were physically or sexually abused may be smaller at birth and show stunted early growth. Though most of the size differences in children born to abused versus not abused mothers were observed at birth, data collected over two years of follow up suggest that violence-related growth retardation becomes more pronounced during this period. The studys conclusions support previous research linking physical and sexual violence against women to low birth weights among their offspring.
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THE SPINAL CORD: Approximately 18 inches (45 cm) long, the human spinal cord is the body’s major neural tract, a thin, tubular bundle of nerves that is enclosed in and protected by the bony vertebral column. Together, the spinal cord and brain compose the central nervous system. Injury to the spinal cord may result in a loss of communication between the brain and sections of the spinal cord, causing paralysis, loss of sensation, or weakness in parts of the body.
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LBN-SPORTS INSIDER: ***Iooss & Leifer, an exhibit that spans the careers of sports photographers Walter Iooss and Neil Leifer, opens at the Annenberg Space for Photography in Century City on Friday night.
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WORLD OF ART: Eli Broad and the city of Santa Monica are in talks about bringing his future art museum to city land next to the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium.
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LBN-BOOK INSIDER: ***Storyopolis in Studio City celebrates fourteen years in business.
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LBN-COMMENTARY By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN: America should still lead such efforts as saving the rainforests. But Chinas days as a global free-rider should be over.
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LBN-COMMENTARY By MICHIKO KAKUTANI: Sarah Palins new book is part cagey spin job and part earnest autobiography. Its most compelling sections deal not with politics, but with her life in Alaska.
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LBN-COMMENTARY By FRANK RICH: If something has been learned from the massacre at Fort Hood, its that our hawks are utterly confused about who it is were fighting in Afghanistan.
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 LBN-HISTORICAL COMMENTARY By Ernest Hemingway: God knows, people who are paid to have attitudes toward things, professional critics, make me sick; camp-following eunuchs of literature. They won’t even whore. They’re all virtuous and sterile. And how well-meaning and high-minded. But they’re all camp-followers. (1925)
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LBN-COMMENTARY By PEGGY NOONAN: The president has been taking time thinking about Afghanistan. I cannot see why this is bad. If he’s really thinking, he’s not ditheringthought can be harder than action, weighing plans as hard as choosing and executing one. A question of such consequence deserves pondering. A president ought to summon and hear counsel before committing or removing American troops. The president is not, apparently, holding serious discussions with the most informed and concerned Republicans from Capitol Hill and what used to be called the foreign-policy establishment, and this, if true, is bad. The clich that politics stops at the water’s edge is a fiction worth preserving.
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LBN-COMMENTARY By FAREED ZAKARIA (Editor, Newsweek): By most measures, America remains the world leader in technological achievement. Consider the 2009 Nobel Prizes: of the 13 people honored, nine were American. Once you take out the economics, literature, and peace prizes, the United States, with 5 percent of the world’s population, still won close to 70 percent of the awards. Even amid a terrible recession, the country still dominates the fields of information technology, life sciences, and nanotechnology, all key industries of the future. The World Economic Forum routinely cites America as having the most competitive economy on the planet (though this year it was narrowly overtaken by Switzerland). When decision makers are asked to rank countries on innovation, the United States always comes first by a large margin.
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LBN-COMMENTARY By DAVE BARRY: 1) If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be meetings. 2) There is a very fine line between hobby and mental illness. 3) People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them. 4) Never lick a steak knife. 5) You will never find anybody who can give you a clear and compelling reason why we observe daylight savings time.
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 LBN-HISTORICAL COMMENTARY By Federico Fellini: The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The image it once held for us all, that of a dream we dreamt with our eyes open, has disappeared. Is it still possible that one thousand people might group together in the dark and experience the dream that a single individual has directed? (1992)
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LBN-OVERHEARD: ***Paris Hilton is declaring war on her former best friends, the Kardashian sisters, for becoming more famous and earning more cash than she does. The hotel heiress is fuming that Kim and her sibs, who got their first big break by hanging out on the Hollywood scene with Hilton, have eclipsed her in the fame and money stakes. Sources say she’s hatched a plan to boost her brand by pushing a new beauty line and make herself more likable by playing down her lavish lifestyle. ***No wonder Paul Simon doesn’t get along with Art Garfunkel. At the recent Rock & Roll Hall of Fame 25th anniversary concert, Garfunkel supposedly threw a backstage hissy fit when a staffer couldn’t instantly produce a tissue for his nose. Offered a paper towel, Garfunkel screamed, “I said a tissue!” — and threw it back, RadarOnline reports. ***Marie Osmond has countersued her former agent, claiming he’s made “extortionist demands” against her and defamed her as well. TMZ has obtained the legal papers, filed in the arbitration case between Marie and former manager P. Karl Engemann. Marie wants $2 million from Engemann for the damages she claims he caused her.The legal docs assert that Engemann “tried to extort Osmond to pay more compensation to him…by defaming and disparaging Osmond to third parties.” Osmond claims Engemann derailed her plan for a talk show by bungling the negotiations. She also says he screwed up her negotiations with “Dancing with the Stars” and her Nutrisystems commercials. In addition to the $2 mil, Marie wants punitive damages. ***The world’s largest porn company has obtained a copy of the Carrie Prejean solo sex tape — and TMZ has learned they’re desperately trying to release it. The porn company — Vivid Entertainment — tells us they obtained the tape legally, but they want Carrie to sign off on it personally before it goes wide.
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DID YOU KNOW: ***The thin line of cloud that forms behind an aircraft at high altitudes is called a contrail. ***In the early days of film making, people who worked on the sets were called movies. The films were called motion pictures. ***The back of the human hand is called the opisthenar. ***People that study fish are called ichthyologists. ***Someone who uses as few words as possible when speaking is known as pauciloquent.
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LBN-QUOTE: “Anger as soon as fed is dead. ‘Tis starving makes it fat.” - Emily Dickinson.
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LBN-HISTORY: On Nov. 15, 1969, a quarter of a million protesters staged a peaceful demonstration in Washington, D.C., against the Vietnam War.
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 LBN-FACESPACE:
1. Name: Suzanne Sena
2. Occupation: On-Camera Broadcaster/host and Professional Talent Training Coach (Founder of the Sena-Series Talent Coaching Workshops and Techniques)
3. What is your greatest extravagance? MASSAGES.
4. What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery? The death of a loved one.
5. If you were to die and come back as a person or thing, what do you think it would be and why? I’m not sure, but I’d sure love it if it were in comfortable climate with blue skies, oceans and sunshine…
6. What is your most marked characteristic? Perpetual Optimism.
7. Who are your heroes in real life? The people in my life who have been saddled with their own challenges, yet still give unconditionally to others.
8. What’s the worst fashion crime a person can commit? I have never understood the concept of socks with sandals.
9. What is your motto? “Limit Exists Only in the Mind”
10. E-mail and website: Suzanne.sena@gmail.com http://www.suzannesena.com/, www.suzannesena.com/talentcoaching
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