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| THURSDAY • JANUARY 31, 2008 |
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MCCAIN, ROMNEY SPAR BEFORE SUPER TUESDAY: Front-runner John McCain and Mitt Romney attacked each other’s conservative credentials as they fought for their party’s top spot during the final showdown before the Super Tuesday contests. The sharpest exchange in the debate came when Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts, was asked about the McCain campaign’s charge that he once said he favored a strict timetable for removing troops from Iraq. But McCain, the Arizona senator who has strongly backed President Bush’s Iraq policy, accused Romney of hedging after public support for the war waned.
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 FED CUTS KEY RATE AS STIMULUS PLAN ADVANCES: The Federal Reserve cut short-term interest rates on Wednesday for the second time in eight days, meeting Wall Street hopes for cheaper money. At the same time, the Senate pushed ahead on a $161 billion plan to prop up Main Street with tax rebates and temporary tax cuts.
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POPE SAYS SOME SCIENCE SHATTERS HUMAN DIGNITY: Pope Benedict said on Thursday that embryonic stem cell research, artificial insemination and the prospect of human cloning had “shattered” human dignity. In an address to members of the Vatican department on doctrinal matters, Benedict said the Church had a duty to defend the “great values at stake” in the field of bioethics.
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LBN-BUSINESS INSIDER: ***Internet outages disrupted business and personal usage across a wide swathe of the Middle East on Wednesday after two undersea cables in the Mediterranean were damaged, government officials and Internet service providers said. ***Shell smashed all-time British company profit records today, posting 2007 earnings of $27.5billion (£13.9billion), and immediately ran into a storm with union leaders, who are demanding the Government hits the oil giant with a windfall tax. ***The scent of ham, eggs, cheese and bacon will soon stop competing with the aroma of coffee in Starbucks stores as hot breakfast sandwiches become the first casualty of the company’s battle to win back customers. The sandwiches, which will disappear by this fall, boost a typical store’s annual revenue by $35,000, so pulling them off the menu will cost at first. Chairman and Chief Executive Howard Schultz said that proves the company isn’t letting the soft economy distract it from committing to big changes that will pay off over the long haul.
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LBN-COMMENTARY By WOODY ALLEN: I’m actually very normal. I have a wife now of 10 years. I have two kids who I’m very devoted to. I’ve portrayed a neurotic personality with such effectiveness that people think that I’m actually neurotic or learned or intellectual. I’m a beer-drinking, television-watching, T-shirt jerk at home. Not someone ensconced in Kierkegaard and Spinoza.
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 LBN-NOTICED: ***Mark Joseph, consultation to the motion picture industry on films of faith, having lunch yesterday at Breeze in the Century Plaza Hotel. ***Powerful entertainment executive Jon Liebman having lunch at Kate Mantilini with media expert and author Michael Levine. ***Justin Timberlake enjoying lunch at Nine-Thirty in Los Angeles. ***Katharine McPhee excitedly discussing her upcoming wedding at the Silver Spoon Golden Globe suite in L.A. ***Jennie Garth checking out the Slim-Fast Style Your Slim fashion show at Boulevard3 in L.A. Be an LBN-Correspondent - send your celeb sightings to LBNElert@TimeWire.net.
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 LBN-MEDIA INSIDER: ***CNN’s “The Situation Room” has media expert and author Michael Levine on as a guest today to discuss the Democratic debates. ***Rupert Murdoch’s New York Post is endorsing Barack Obama for the Democratic presidential nomination, describing him as a preferable alternative to home state senator Hillary Rodham Clinton. Murdoch had held a fundraiser for Clinton’s Senate re-election campaign in 2006. ***Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, together with CEO Eric Schmidt, are pledging to work together for 20 years in a pact they made shortly before the company’s initial public offering in August 2004. Schmidt will be 69 years old by that time; Page will be 51 and Brin 50. ***The Hollywood writers strike is taking a heavy toll on prime-time viewership with the major networks airing more repeats, game shows and reality shows. The five top broadcast networks are down a collective 17% for the week ending Jan. 27 in ratings among viewers aged 18 to 49.
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 LBN-COMMENTARY By SUSAN SARANDON: It’s not part of my conditioning as a woman and as a Catholic-school girl to ever be disruptive. The only thing that gives me the courage to do things–because I’m a shy person–is the idea of living with myself afterward. At the 1993 Academy Awards, when we talked about the Haitian refugees being held in Guantanamo, I could barely breathe.
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 LBN-COMMENTARY By WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY, JR.: President Bush didn’t give Congress, in his State of the Union address, quite what was expected, especially in the area of taxation. Several high critics of Bush, most of them running for president, spoke vociferously about the need to cut the privileges that flow to the rich through the tax laws. One critic said that the time had finally come when the tax burden should move against the wealthy. President Bush gave them little satisfaction, in part because there is little satisfaction to be had.
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LBN-PRESIDENTIAL BACK ROOM: ***Nancy Reagan for McCain, top source tells Drudge: ‘She adores him, and is fully supporting him in her private life. She will not publicky endorse.’
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LBN-HEALTH WATCH: ***A state-owned Chinese company is at the center of a scandal after nearly 200 Chinese cancer patients were paralyzed or otherwise harmed by contaminated drugs.
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LBN-OVERHEARD: ***Britney Spears was taken from her home by ambulance early Thursday and escorted to a hospital by more than a dozen police officers as two helicopters followed overhead. A Los Angeles police officer, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak on the matter, said the 26-year-old pop star was being taken to “get help” but did not give the ambulance’s destination. The Los Angeles Times, citing unidentified authorities, said Spears was taken to UCLA Medical Center to be placed on a “mental evaluation hold.” Center spokesman Mark Wheeler declined to comment to The Associated Press, citing privacy laws. ***Heath Ledger had become a regular user of cocaine and heroin in the past year, getting so high on drugs that an exasperated Michelle Williams was forced to boot him out of their Brooklyn home, The New York Post has learned. “She couldn’t take it any more. Heath wouldn’t show up for two to three days, and all of a sudden he would show up on her doorstep, an absolute wreck,” a member of Ledger’s entourage who did drugs with him. “He was partying, doing drugs. She didn’t like the company he was keeping. She gave him an ultimatum. . . . and threatened to get custody of the girl. He wanted to make it work, but it was this scene he was wrapped up in. Was he an addict? Yeah.” ***It’s not looking good for Farrah Fawcett. During a party to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Nikki Haskell’s StarCaps, Ryan O’Neal told friends his former love had just gone to Germany to treat a huge tumor in her liver. Other friends say Fawcett, originally diagnosed with anal cancer last year, has made a deal with one of the tabloid TV shows to discuss her battle against the disease and videotape her chemotherapy. “She got $500,000 for it,” a spy sniffed.
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LBN-DID YOU KNOW? Roses may be red, but violets are indeed violet. ***Q. What do bulletproof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers, and laser printers all have in common? A. All invented by women. ***The three best-known western names in China: Jesus Christ, Richard Nixon, and Elvis Presley. ***In Scotland, a new game was invented. It was entitled Gentlemen Only Ladies Forbidden…. and thus the word GOLF entered into the English language. ***If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall. Barbie’s full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
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LBN-CURRENTLY READING: Emory Psychology Professor Drew Westen is reading Why I am a Democrat by Ted Sorenson.
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LBN-QUOTE: “We just have to slow down our economy and cut back our greenhouse gas emissions ’cause we have to save the planet for our grandchildren.”—–Bill Clinton.
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LBN-HISTORY: On Jan. 31, 1865, the House of Representatives passed a constitutional amendment to abolish slavery.
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