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 WHITE HOUSE APPOINTS CZAR TO OVERSEE EXECUTIVE PAY: The Obama administration appointed Kenneth R. Feinberg to thenew post, giving him broad discretion to set pay for 175 top executives at seven of the nation’s largest companies.
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CHRYSLER AND FIAT MAKE IT OFFICIAL: Chrysler and Italian automaker Fiat on Wednesday officially signed a strategic alliance brokered by the U.S. government, after the Supreme Court cleared the path for the deal late Tuesday. Fiat will initially take a 20% stake in the company, which can go up to 35% if it reaches certain goals.
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OIL SOARS ABOVE $71, HITTING 2009 HIGH: Oil prices soared above $71 a barrel Wednesday to reach a 2009 high, as investors poured money into crude markets to protect themselves against the inflation risks posed by a weakening U.S. dollar.
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ARMY REPELS TALIBAN IN NW PAKISTAN AFTER HOTEL BLAST: Pakistan launched a new operation against Taliban fighters in the northwest on Wednesday, a day after an attack on a luxury hotel in Peshawar killed at least nine people, including two foreign U.N. workers. Taliban militants have stepped up attacks in cities since the army launched a campaign in April to clear Taliban fighters from a stronghold in Swat and other parts of northwest Pakistan.
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TERROR NAMES LINKED TO DOOMED FLIGHT AF 447: Two passengers with names linked to Islamic terrorism were on the Air France flight which crashed with the loss of 228 lives, it has emerged.
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DAVID CARRADINE SEX TOY SHOPPING: David Carradine went to a Los Angeles sex shop he frequented just three weeks before he died and placed a large order for clothing, toys and videos. According to the owner of Susie’s Delights in Tarzana, CA, Carradine was a regular in the store — shopping there a few times a month for years. The owner tells us Carradine owned almost every piece of bondage equipment in the store. The order Carradine placed three weeks ago included women’s lingerie, stockings, a few pieces of bondage equipment and three bondage DVDs. Some of the items were on back order and Carradine was supposed to come back and pick them up a few weeks later. He never did. The owner told us when Carradine placed the order he talked to her for almost an hour, saying he was upset because he felt his wife was unhappy with him.
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LBN-BUSINESS INSIDER: ***The U.S. trade deficit widened in April for a second month as exports dropped to the lowest level in almost three years and some of the largest economies continued to contract. The gap between imports and exports grew 2.2 percent to $29.2 billion, in line with forecasts, from a revised $28.5 billion in March that was larger than previously estimated, the Commerce Department said today in Washington. Foreign demand for U.S. goods dropped 2.3 percent, exceeding a decrease in imports. ***Edward E. Whitacre Jr. built AT&T Inc. into the biggest U.S. provider of telephone service over a 43-year-career. By his own admission, he becomes chairman of General Motors Corp. knowing nothing about the auto industry. ***Wal-Mart is trying to dive deeper into the $90 billion-a-year Hispanic grocery market by opening a new supermarket in west Phoenix today. The Supermercado de Wal-Mart is one of two stores nationwide that will test the country’s appetite for a possible string of Hispanic supermarkets. The giant retailer says its other store that opened in Houston April 29 is far exceeding expectations. ***Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase and eight other large banks were deemed strong enough by federal regulators to return more than $68 billion in taxpayer aid.
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 LBN-NOTICED: ***TV hostess Leeza Gibbons having lunch yesterday with media expert and author Michael Levine at Kate Mantilini in Beverly Hills. ***Lauren Conrad, modeling clothes for boyfriend Kyle Howard during a shopping trip at the Alice + Olivia store at the Malibu Lumber Yard. *** A pregnant Heidi Klum and Seal, cheering on daughter Leni, 5, as she performed in a dance recital at L.A.’s Wilshire Ebell Theatre. During intermission, the couple mixed and mingled with other parents in the lobby including Courteney Cox Arquette, whose daughter Coco, 4, was also in the recital. ***Nicole Richie and Joel Madden, joining a large group of friends for dinner at El Compadre in Hollywood. *** Eminem, working out on the treadmill at Equinox in West Hollywood. *** True Blood’s Anna Paquin, browsing the racks at exercise-clothing store Lululemon Athletica in Beverly Hills. ***BE AN LBN CORRESPONDENT - Send your celebrity sightings to LBNElert@TimeWire.net.
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ENGLISH GETS MILLIONTH WORD ON WEDNESDAY, SITE SAYS: English contains more words than any other language on the planet and added its millionth word early Wednesday, according to the Global Language Monitor, a Web site that uses a math formula to estimate how often words are created.The site estimates the millionth English word, “Web 2.0″ was added to the language Wednesday at 5:22 a.m. ET. The term refers to the second, more social generation of the Internet.
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DANNY GANS’ DEATH RULED ACCIDENTAL: Legendary Las Vegas performer Danny Gans’ cause of death has been ruled an accidental overdose of pain medication. Clark County Coroner Michael Murphy said Danny officially died from hydromorphone toxicity due to chronic pain syndrome — and that other contributing factors include hypertension cardiovascular disease and a disease that caused him to produce an abnormal amount of red blood cells. Murphy says Gans had a toxic reaction to the drug because of an existing heart condition. He added, “This was not drug abuse.” Danny died on May 1 at his home after a family member called 911 to say he was having trouble breathing. By the time paramedics arrived, it was too late.
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CHARITY DECLINE: Charitable giving fell last year by the largest percentage in five decades, according to a new study by the Giving USA Foundation.
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LBN-HOLLYWOOD INSIDER: ***The membership of the Screen Actors Guild ended a year-long stalemate yesterday by officially ratifying its proposed two-year TV/theatrical contract with a vote margin of 78% to 22%. A slightly higher-than-usual voter turnout saw 35.3% cast a ballot. The new contract went into effect at 12:01 am today and expires June 30, 2011.
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LBN-MEDIA INSIDER: ***Prompted by a lawsuit from St Louis Cardinals manager Tony La Russa, social-networking micro-blogger Twitter will introduce a Verified Accounts program in order to authenticate whether a Twitter feed is indeed owned by the person under whom it is registered. The move comes in response to complaints from sports and entertainment celebs about imposters using their name to start a Twitter account. ***News Corp. is said to be near a deal to sell its right-wing political magazine, the Weekly Standard, to conservative media mogul Philip Anschutz. Now that Rupert Murdoch owns the conservative-leaning Wall Street Journal, observers say, he may no longer need the small-circ title. ***On Friday, the Wall Street Journal will relocate its operations to News Corp.’s corporate headquarters in midtown. The Journal’s new space will share quarters with Fox News, Fox Business Channel and the New York Post. The move is seen as “the final step of indoctrination.” ***Online classifieds site Craigslist is on track to generate $100 million in revenue this year, according to estimates by AIM Group/Classified Intelligence. The number is a 23% increase from 2008 when the group pegged Craigslist’s revenue at $81 million. ***Former Variety staffer Dade Hayes has joined Rubenstein Communications as senior VP. Hayes will join the firm’s expanding entertainment practice, one that includes David Letterman’s Worldwide Pants, Paramount Pictures, HBO and Media Rights Capital. He reports to exec veep Susie Arons. ***David Letterman has surpassed NBC’s “Tonight Show” in the overnight ratings.
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LBN COMMENTARY By EDWARD LOZZI (long time friend and former publicist of Lana Clarkson): The 6 year saga of the murderer Phil Spector is over. Over 100 people came forward to accuse Spector of pulling loaded guns on them-including Michelle Phillips, Debra Harry and many other important individuals. From all of us to the pathetic group known as Team Spector; your defamatory antics and illegal behavior towards us including harassment, threats by e-mail and phone must stop. Its over! The People have judged your Manson-esque leader as a murderer and a threat to society. Your trashing of our friend Lana Clarkson didnt help Spector then, now, or in the future.
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LBN-SPORTS INSIDER: ***The Orlando Magic won Game 3 of the N.B.A. finals, shooting a record 63 percent in the win over Los Angeles.
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 LBN-COMMENTARY By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN: I confess. Im a sucker for free and fair elections. It warms my heart to watch people drop ballots in a box to express their will, especially in a region where that so rarely happens. So I came to Lebanon on Sunday to watch the Lebanese hold their national election. It was indeed free and fair not like the pretend election you are about to see in Iran, where only candidates approved by the Supreme Leader can run. No, in Lebanon it was the real deal, and the results were fascinating: President Barack Obama defeated President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran. O.K., I know. Neither man was on the ballot, but theres no question whose vision won here. First, a solid majority of Lebanese Christians voted against the list of Michel Aoun, who wanted to align their community with the Shiite Hezbollah party, and tacitly Iran, because he viewed them as being best able to protect Christian interests not the West. The Christian majority voted instead for those who wanted to preserve Lebanons sovereignty and independence from any regional power.
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 LBN-COMMENTARY By MAUREEN DOWD: The fun police are patrolling Pennsylvania Avenue. Given the serious times, the chatter goes, should Barack Obama be allowed to enjoy date night with Michelle in New York, sightseeing in Paris, golf outings in D.C., not to mention doing a promotion for Conan OBrien and a video cameo for Stephen Colberts first comedy show from Iraq? With two wars and G.M. in bankruptcy proceedings, shouldnt the president be glued to the grindstone, emulating W.s gravity when he sacrificed golf in 2003 as the Iraq insurgency spread? I dont want some mom whose son may have recently died to see the commander in chief playing golf, the former president explained later. I think, you know, playing golf during a war just sends the wrong signal.
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CONGRESSMAN SEEKS TO END BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP FOR CHILDREN OF ILLEGAL ALIENS: True immigration reformers in the U.S. Congress have reintroduced legislation seeking to end birthright citizenship for children born to illegal alien parents in the United States. Authored by Congressman Nathan Deal (R-GA) and co-sponsored by a bipartisan group of 46 other Members of the House of Representatives, the Birthright Citizenship Act of 2009 (H.R.1868) would amend the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) to change the current interpretation to any child born in the United States regardless of the immigration status of the childs parents.
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 LBN-COMMENTARY By DEEPAK CHOPRA (Author, Sirius radio host, founder of the Alliance for a New Humanity): If people still trusted the health care industry, then it would be unnecessary to brand Oprah for “crazy talk” simply because she provides a forum for ideas outside of mainstream medicine.
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LBN-COMMENTARY By JOHN R. BOLTON: Conservative foreign and national-security policies do not need remaking, rebranding or remessaging. They need not be escorted by prefixes or adjectives, nor do they need “moderating.” Conservative foreign policy is unabashedly pro-American, unashamed of American exceptionalism, unwilling to bend its knee to international organizations, and unapologetic about the need for the fullest range of dominant military capabilities. Its diplomacy is neither unilateralist nor multilateralist, but chooses its strategies, tactics, means and methods based on a hard-headed assessment of U.S. national interests, not on theologies about process. Most especially, conservatives understand that allies are different from adversaries, and that each should be treated accordingly.
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LBN COMMENTARY By LISA HAISHA: President Obamas speech at Cairo University called on Americans to help create a new beginning between the United States and Muslims around the world. It seems President Obama is under fire by speaking at Cairo University and delivering this message of peace and co-existence. What should be under fire is why a president hasnt done this before. ***To reply directly to Lisa Haish, e-mail LBNElert@TimeWire.net (Please put Lisa Haisha in the subject line).
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LBN-COMMENTARY By KIM MASTERS: Hollywood hasnt had a real strongman since Michael Ovitz built up the Creative Artists Agency in the 1980s and called the shots from his sleek I.M. Pei-designed headquarters in Beverly Hills. Theres been such a long gap since he took a fatal step by accepting the No. 2 job at Disney in 1995 that a person had to wonder whether nature really did abhor this particular vacuum. But in the past few weeks, agent Ari Emanuel is looking to some like a contender. His agency, Endeavor, snapped up the far larger William Morris Agency, then, with the speed of what was lurking in the waters in Jaws, dispatched top man Jim Wiatt to that nether region where Ovitz now resides. Can you hear that scary music? Hollywood certainly does.
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 LBN-RECOMMENDS By SUZY WELCH (Commentator and business journalist): Lately I’ve been obsessed with Alltop, the very cool (and extremely useful) blog aggregating Web site just launched by Web guru Guy Kawasaki and a bunch of smart cohorts. Finally, there’s a fast and simple way to seeall in one placecurated blogs devoted to your interest of the day or moment. The site also allows you to create your own Alltop pagea one-stop shop for your favorite blogs and to view the Alltop pages created by other users.
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 LBN-COMMENTARY By THOMAS SOWELL:“The Character of Nations” is about far more than the fact that there are different behavior patterns in different countries– that, for example, “it is unimaginable to do business in China without paying bribes.”
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 LBN-RECOMMENDS By JON ROBIN BAITZ (Playwright, Screenwriter, and Television Producer): I am obsessed with the production of Mary Stuart on Broadway. Not only for director Phyllida Lloyd’s sly take, but also for the bravura performances of the company. Yes, Janet McTeer’s riven Mary ascends into a state of grace, as Harriet Walter’s Elizabeth gains in political acumen and descends into a lonely awareness of power. The ensemble, however, offers a demonstration of the boundless generosity of great actors. Standouts include Brian Murray’s elder statesman Shrewsbury, Michael Countryman as Mary’s jailor Paulet, and Maria Tucci as the nurse who has been with the queen forever.
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LBN-OVERHEARD: ***Kanye West is officially back on the market. Rumors of the rapper’s split from tall, shaved-top music video model Amber Rose have swirled for weeks, and now a spokesman for West tells us, “They are no longer a couple.” ***After a tumultuous relationship with paparazzo Adnan Ghalib and a heartbreaking divorce from Kevin Federline, Britney Spears has found somebody new and her family approves. Confirming Internet rumors, a source says that Spears, 27, is romantically involved with her agent, Jason Trawick. “They are totally and definitely dating,” the source says. “Her dad loves him. He’s the best thing that happened to her.” ***Kyra Sedgwick and her actor-husband, Kevin Bacon, managed to stay out of the gossip pages until they were among the many victims of the massive Ponzi scheme run by financier Bernard Madoff. “I think the interesting thing about it was that I always thought, `We’re so boring. We should be in the tabloids more. C’mon honey, let’s have a scandal,’” the 43-year-old actress said.
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LBN-DID YOU KNOW: ***In a month, a fingernail grows an eighth of an inch. ***People whose mouth has a narrow roof are more likely to snore. This is because they have less oxygen going through their nose. ***While sleeping, one man in eight snores, and one in ten grinds his teeth. ***It takes food seven seconds to go from the mouth to the stomach via the esophagus.
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LBN-QUOTE: “The people who voted for President Obama are just beginning to wake up to exactly what they brought in. The ‘change’ they envisioned is not the ‘change’ they have gotten.”—–Jon Voight.
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LBN-HISTORY: On June 10, 1967, the Six-Day War ended as Israel and Syria agreed to observe a United Nations-mediated cease-fire.
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HOLOCAUST SHOOTINGS: Two people have been shot at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in D.C., emergency officers said.
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