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PROGRESS TOWARD ENDING WRITERS’ STRIKE: Informal talks between representatives of Hollywood’s striking writers and production companies have eliminated the major roadblocks to a new contract, which could lead to a tentative agreement as early as next week, according to people who were briefed on the situation but requested anonymity because they were not authorized to speak. A deal would end a crippling writers’ strike that is now entering its fourth month.
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ISRAELIS TOLD TO PREPARE ‘ROCKET ROOMS’ FOR WAR: Retired senior officers told Israelis on Saturday to prepare “rocket rooms” as protection against a rain of missiles expected to be fired at the Jewish state in any future conflict. Speaking on radio as part of a military propaganda offensive, retired general Udi Shani said: “The next war will see a massive use of ballistic weapons against the whole of Israeli territory.”
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 A FRAIL ECONOMY RAISES PRESSURE ON IRAN’S RULERS: In one of the coldest winters Iranians have experienced in recent memory, the government is failing to provide natural gas to tens of thousands of people across the country, leaving some for days or even weeks with no heat at all. Here in the capital, rolling blackouts every night for a month have left people without electricity, and heat, for hours at a time.The heating crisis in this oil-exporting nation is adding to Iranians’ increasing awareness of the contrast between their growing influence abroad and frailty at home, according to government officials, diplomats and political analysts interviewed here.
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 LBN-SEE IT…..Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga takes a rest on a pile of barley husks after walking around his farm in the village of Bondo, near Kisumu, in Kenya, Sunday, Feb. 3, 2008…..
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 LBN-NOTICED: ***Julianne Moore and Bart Freundlich dining without the kids in a quiet booth at Dos Caminos Soho in NYC. ***Gwen Stefani and five pals wolfing down four pizzas at Luzzo’s in the East Village on NYC. ***Keep an eye out for Marisa Tomei at your local neighborhood strip club. The Oscar-winner has been spotted at two popular mammary meccas in the past two weeks — Headquarters and the Hustler Club.
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 YOU LEARNED FAST! Three months after their meeting, President Nicolas Sarkozy married Carla Bruni, a singer and former model. The 246,000 daily LBN E-Lert readers in all 50 of the United States and 23 foreign countries got the news BEFORE…..The New York Times.
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 VIRGINIA BEACH POLICE SEIZE PHOTOS FROM ABERCROMBIE STORE: Lynnhaven Police, saying they were responding to citizen complaints, carted away two large promotional photographs from the Abercrombie & Fitch store in Lynnhaven Mall on Saturday and cited the manager on obscenity charges. Adam Bernstein, a police spokesman, said the seizure and the issuance of the summons came only after store management had not heeded warnings to remove the images.
Lynnhaven Police, saying they were responding to citizen complaints, carted away two large promotional photographs from the Abercrombie & Fitch store in Lynnhaven Mall on Saturday and cited the manager on obscenity charges. Adam Bernstein, a police spokesman, said the seizure and the issuance of the summons came only after store management had not heeded warnings to remove the images. |
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LBN-POLITICAL BRIEFING BY MAUREEN DOWD: Suddenly, everyone was in the mood for love. Would the scream team turn into the dream team? After Thursday’s Democratic debate, CNN’s Carol Costello said there were “heart palpitations” and “ripples of joy” in the glittery Kodak Theater audience at the idea of a Hillary-Obama or Obama-Hillary ticket, after he was gallant with her and she laughed gaily with him. How could Hollywood not fall in love with Hollywood’s favorite plot? After lots of sparking and sparring, the couple falls into each other’s arms in the last scene. The would-be matchmakers didn’t seem to know that in Hollywood, couples who have chemistry on screen often don’t like each other off screen, and ones who are involved off screen often don’t have any chemistry on screen. And so it is with Barack and Hillary. Thursday night was not the beginning of a beautiful friendship. Just a beautiful, dare we say, fairy tale.
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LBN-PRESIDENTIAL BACK ROOM: ***Democrats Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are running neck-and-neck in California, New Jersey and Missouri two days before the sprawling “Super Tuesday” presidential showdown, according to a Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby poll released on Sunday. ***As John McCain continues to pick up endorsements his numbers in the polls continue to remain strong. McCain sounds confident about his chances for the GOP nomination on Tuesday and at times even for the presidency. “I know that I can win the presidency once I win your nomination,” he told an audience Saturday at a rally in Nashville.
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LBN-COMMENTARY BY JIMMY CARTER AND JAMES A. BAKER III: This is a major election year. Unfortunately, our two major political parties — Democratic and Republican — continue to disagree on some of the rules that apply to the administration of our elections. This divide is perhaps most contentious when the issue becomes one of whether voters should present photo identification to vote. Twenty-seven states require or request some form of ID to vote. Supporters of this policy argue that if voters identify themselves before voting, election fraud will be reduced. Opponents of an ID requirement fear it will disenfranchise voters, especially the poor, members of minority groups and the elderly, who are less likely than other voters to have suitable identification. The debate is polarized because most of the proponents are Republicans and most of the opponents are Democrats. In 2005, we led a bipartisan Commission on Federal Election Reform and concluded that both parties’ concerns were legitimate — a free and fair election requires both ballot security and full access to voting. We offered a proposal to bridge the partisan divide by suggesting a uniform voter photo ID, based on the federal Real ID Act of 2005, to be phased in over five years. To help with the transition, states would provide free voter photo ID cards for eligible citizens; mobile units would be sent out to provide the IDs and register voters. (Of the 21 members of the commission, only three dissented on the requirement for an ID.)
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LBN-OVERHEARD: ***Marc Jacobs kicked off Fashion Week with a documentary on the behind-the-scenes life of a designer — although many viewers would have likely been more interested in the secret tryst he’s been having with a porn star. ***The latest Howard Stern shock? He’s a chess champ. Sitting in the front row at Nicole Miller’s show at New York Fashion Week, the radio host’s fiancée Beth Ostrosky said, “He plays chess online on the internet every hour that he’s home. I watch him play chess.” ***Former “American Idol” contestant, Katharine McPhee, married her longtime boyfriend in Los Angeles on Saturday. The 23-year-old wannabeen singer/actress and Nick Cokas (who is 42, by the way) were strictly platonic before Katharine auditioned for the hit reality show.
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DID YOU KNOW? - SEA LIFE: ***About 1 in 5,000 North Atlantic lobsters are born bright blue. ***Male sea horses are the ones that are impregnated rather than the females. Males have a pouch on their belly that provides incubation for the female’s eggs. They can have up to 1,500 babies at one time. ***Octopus and squid are thought to be the most intelligent of all invertebrates. ***Pearls are rarely found in North American oysters. ***The adult electric eel can produce a five hundred volt shock, which is enough to stun a horse.
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LBN-QUOTE: “The “Britney-Industrial Complex” is worth about $120m a year to the US economy — everything from the fees generated by her pictures to the boost in circulation, as much as one-third more, enjoyed by publications who put her on the cover.” —-Michael Levine, media expert and author.
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LBN-HISTORY: On Feb. 3, 1917, the United States broke off diplomatic relations with Germany, which had announced a policy of unrestricted submarine warfare.
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