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IRAN SAYS U.S. REPORT A “DECLARATION OF SURRENDER”: Iran’s president said on Sunday the publication of a U.S. intelligence report saying Iran had halted a nuclear weapons program in 2003 amounted to a “declaration of surrender” by Washington in its row with Tehran. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad also dismissed in an interview with state television the prospect of new U.N. sanctions against Iran over its refusal to halt sensitive atomic work.
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PUTIN SAYS HE WOULD ACCEPT JOB AS PM: President Vladimir Putin told a party congress Monday that he would accept the prime minister’s post if his longtime protege is elected president, guaranteeing Putin an ongoing heavyweight political role in Russia. Ending speculation that he had another surprise up his sleeve in this tumultuous election season, Putin also said he would not–as had been widely expected–seek to strengthen the post of prime minister at the expense of Russia’s powerful presidency.
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 GIULIANI: NATION NEEDS BOLD LEADERSHIP: Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani’s “bold” vision for the nation sounded a lot like the same ideas he’s been talking about for months, but delivered in a new package Saturday. Giuliani’s address before about 200 people was billed by his campaign as a new speech that shows the former New York mayor’s bold vision for the future of the country. But the 30-plus minute speech hit on similar themes: a little Hillary Rodham Clinton bashing, some reflections on the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, a call to make energy independence as big a priority as landing on the moon was in the 1960s, and the need to fight terrorism so the United States can be safe and do more business in the Middle East. And the theme throughout was that he has shown the leadership needed to be president.
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MITT’S MISTY ON MORMONS; HE WEPT WITH JOY AS CHURCH KO’D BIAS: Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney choked back tears yesterday when reflecting on the day he learned that the Mormon Church would stop discriminating on the basis of race. Romney’s campaign has fought in recent weeks to explain his Mormon faith to voters - many of whom know little about the religion and associate it with a long-outlawed practice of polygamy.
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BRITS HAND BASRA BACK TO IRAQIS: British forces yesterday formally handed over responsibility for Basra, the last region in Iraq under their control. It is the start of what Britain hopes will be a change in its role to aiding the economy and providing jobs in a region beset by militia infighting.
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KING PARDONS RAPE VICTIM: Saudi King Abdullah has pardoned a rape victim who had been sentenced to 200 lashes and six months in prison in a case that sparked international attention, a Saudi newspaper has reported. Al-Jazirah newspaper quoted a Saudi Justice Ministry official saying King Abdullah issued a royal pardon on Monday, the same day that the Hajj, the annual Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca, begins in Saudi Arabia. The victim’s husband told CNN he has not received an official letter regarding her pardon, but considers it to be legitimate since it was announced in an official Saudi newspaper.
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 CANCER TAKES DAN FOGELBERG: Dan Fogelberg, the singer and songwriter whose hits “Leader of the Band” and “Same Old Lang Syne” helped define the soft-rock era, died yesterday at his home in Maine after battling prostate cancer. He was 56. “Dan left us this morning at 6 a.m. He fought a brave battle with cancer and died peacefully at home in Maine with his wife, Jean, at his side,” said a statement from his publicist.
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LBN-NOTICED: ***Tennis great Serena Williams, incognito under a hood, practicing with a mystery man at the Mid town Tennis Club in NYC. Be an LBN Correspondent - send your celeb sightings to LBNElert@TimeWire.net.
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LATE-NIGHT TV STAGING COMEBACK: Late-night TV - which has been a wasteland of repeats since a writers strike began last month - could be back to normal by New Year’s, according to new reports. NBC is expected to announce today that Jay Leno and Conan O’Brien will return to the air by Jan. 7, and perhaps sooner, according to reports.
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LBN-HEALTH WATCH: ***A mutation in a single gene may raise one’s risk of getting amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig’s disease, by as much as 30 percent, offering a potential new target for drug research, scientists said yesterday. They said a variant in the DPP6 gene may give rise to ALS in people without a family susceptibility to the untreatable, fatal disease. According to researchers, a single-letter change in the genetic code of the DPP6 gene is “consistently and strongly associated with susceptibility” to ALS.
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LBN-HOLLYWOOD INSIDER: ***John Travolta has been dropped from the “Dallas” movie after being promoted as the project’s anchor for more than two years. Insiders say that Travolta, who was just nominated for a Golden Globe for donning a fat suit for his drag role in “Hairspray,” was “let go about two weeks ago. He had the role of J.R. Ewing taken from him and given to Ben Stiller.” However, a rep for Stiller denies the comic actor accepted or was offered the part. ***About 4,000 fans bid farewell to “A New Day,” Celine Dion’s show at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.
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LBN COMMENTARY By ELTON JOHN ON AMY WINEHOUSE: “‘Back to Black’ was a phenomenal album. Her voice just completely blew me away. I’ve seen her live, and she is the real deal, although she sometimes can be hit-and-miss on how out of it she is. It’s like Nina Simone and Van Morrison: you don’t know what you are going to get. You don’t know if it’s going to be a little off or if it’s going to be electrifying. The only thing that’s going to stop Amy is herself.”
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LBN-BUSINESS INSIDER: ***Ex-Fed boss Chairman Alan Greenspan said he favors spending US government money to bail out mortgage borrowers who risk losing their homes because they can’t make payments. Greenspan, speaking on ABC’s “This Week” program, said cash bailouts, while creating a larger budget deficit, would help homeowners with out distorting property prices or interest rates on mortgages. ***Today is projected to be the busiest shipping day of the year. The US Postal Service expects nearly 1 billion cards, letters and packages to be mailed today. FedEx expects to handle 11.3 million packages, the most ever processed by its network in a single day. ***OPEC may increase crude oil output quotas when it meets Feb. 1 be cause forecasts for a cold winter means stronger demand, said Algerian Oil Minister Chakib Khelil, who’s expected to be come the group’s head in 2008. ***US consumers, who flocked to malls at the start of the holiday shopping season, have since slowed, hit by the effects of Midwest storms and the growing popularity of online buying, data released yesterday showed. After a strong discount-driven start, sales over the first 20 days of the holiday period have eased, returning to the modest growth expected this year, according to SpendingPulse. ***Sales of women’s clothing, a traditional pillar of the holiday shopping season, are unusually weak so far this year, according to a major credit card company. ***In 2007, a growing number of marketers, agencies and media owners forsook the tried-and-true in favor of new ways to reach elusive consumers.
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 CROSS-DRESSING DAVID GEST LOOKS JUST EX-WIFE LIZA MINNELLI: David Gest, who is already notorious for his vulgarity, certainly enjoys pushing the boundaries of bad taste. The former I’m A Celebrity star made an appearance last night apparently dressed as his ex wife Liza Minnelli, who is currently being treated in a US hospital after collapsing on stage earlier this week.
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BONHAM CARTER, BURTON WELCOME A BABY GIRL: Helena Bonham Carter and Tim Burton have welcomed their second child, a girl, in London, the actress’ representative told a magazine. The star and director of the upcoming musical film “Sweeney Todd” are “absolutely delighted,” Karon Maskill told People for a story posted Sunday on the magazine’s Web site.
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 LBN-A DIFFERENT VIEW…..Looking like a character from “Star Wars,” a wrapped and bandaged Michael Jackson haunted a Las Vegas bookstore over the weekend……
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 LBN-OVERHEARD: ***Willem Dafoe was oblivious to the female anatomy as a young man. “My first job as a teenager was as a binder of Penthouse and Hustler magazines,” Dafoe told Webster Hall’s Baird Jones at a recent party at the Costume National store. “It sounds exciting, but actually it was just a typical Midwestern factory job.” ***KISS founder, Paul Stanley, signs with LCO for media representation. ***Movie stars, moguls, and politicians gathered in Connecticut on Saturday for the wedding of film studio honcho Harvey Weinstein and fashion designer Georgina Chapman. Among the 300 guests: Rupert Murdoch, Les Moonves, Jeff Zucker, Brian Roberts, Graydon Carter and Mort Zuckerman.
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LBN-QUOTE: “Mitt Romney looks like a bad Ken doll. His whole Mr. Perfect robot acts makes me want to puke!”—–Sally R. Fields, Southgate, Michigan.
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LBN-HISTORY: On Dec. 17, 1903, Orville and Wilbur Wright made the first successful man-powered airplane flight, near Kitty Hawk, N.C.
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