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This edition was generated on Sun Dec 19 08:45:01 EST 2010

Table of Contents

General News Update
Sports News Update
Business News Update
Miscellaneous Daily Information
Boston Area Weather

General News Update

Yahoo! Reuters Headlines-General News:

FILE - In this Nov. 7, 2010 file photo, new Afghan police recruits practice shooting at a firing range on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan. Docume AP
Contractors behaving badly mean headaches for US AP – 2 hrs 41 mins ago

WASHINGTON – At two in the morning on Sept. 9, 2005, five DynCorp International security guards assigned to Afghan President Hamid Karzai's protective detail returned to their compound drunk, with a prostitute in tow. Less than a week later, three of these same guards got drunk again, this time in the VIP lounge of the Kabul airport while awaiting a flight to Thailand. Full Story »

A South Korean navy ship, bottom right, approaches its facility as the sun rises near Yeonpyeong island, South Korea, Sunday, Dec. 19, 2010. South Kor
Security Council to meet as SKorea set on exercise AP – 2 hrs 28 mins ago
Cassandra Melnikow, foreground left, and her sister Victoria Melnikow, right, sit in New York's Times Square as news of the Senate approving the repe
Gays see repeal as a civil rights milestone AP – 2 hrs 28 mins ago

Sports News

Yahoo! Reuters Headlines-Sports:

Lindsey Vonn AP

Lindsey Vonn is 2010 AP Female Athlete of Year

AP – Sat Dec 18, 4:13 pm ET

Lindsey Vonn remembers being a 9-year-old wannabe Olympian, waiting in line for hours on end to shake the hand of a medal-winning skier and get an autograph. Full Story »

Josh Selby, Donte Smith

Selby scores 21 in debut, No. 3 Kansas beat USC

AP – Sat Dec 18, 2:45 pm ET
Vince Carter Joel Przybilla

Magic acquire Arenas, Turkoglu, Richardson

AP – 2 hrs 27 mins ago

Business News

Yahoo! Reuters Headlines-Business:

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange during the initial public offering of Gain Capital Holdings Inc. Reuters

Investors placing bets on 2011

Reuters – Fri Dec 17, 10:26 pm ET

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Investors will be taking advantage next week of the some of the last remaining trading days of the year to place their bets on what will be the winners of 2011. Full Story »

Bank of America cuts off WikiLeaks payments

Reuters – Sat Dec 18, 3:18 pm ET

States' budget freeze bid risks more EU wrangling

Reuters – Sat Dec 18, 10:18 am ET

Miscellaneous Daily Stuff

Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - December 19, 2010
Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.
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John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)
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If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
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Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
Acting is not being emotional, but being able to express emotion.
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Kate Reid
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The follies which a man regrets most, in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.
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Helen Rowland (1876 - 1950), A Guide to Men, 1922
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