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This edition was generated on Thu Jan 27 08:45:02 EST 2011

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:

Relatives place the coffin of Abdul Jabar Mukhtar, an employee at the Foreign Affairs Ministry, on a bus during a funeral in Baghdad Reuters
Bomb strikes funeral as blasts kill 40 in Baghdad AP – 56 mins ago

BAGHDAD – A car bomb ripped through a funeral tent in a mainly Shiite area of Baghdad on Thursday, the deadliest in a series of attacks that killed at least 40 people. Full Story »

Sports News

Yahoo! Reuters Headlines-Sports:

Novak Djokovic AP

Federer, Nadal now gone at Australian Open

AP – 49 mins ago

MELBOURNE, Australia – First Rafael Nadal, now Roger Federer. Full Story »

Familiar faces in Australian Open semifinals

AP – Wed Jan 26, 5:49 am ET

NASCAR scraps points system for simpler version

AP – Wed Jan 26, 11:06 pm ET
A trader talks on the phone on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Reuters

Futures higher on Caterpillar results, data eyed

Reuters – 38 mins ago

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Stock index futures were slightly higher on Thursday, a day after the S&P 500 closed at a 29-month high as several bellwether companies reported strong results. Full Story »

Miscellaneous Daily Stuff

Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - January 27, 2011
How is it possible to find meaning in a finite world, given my waist and shirt size?
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Woody Allen (1935 - )
He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
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Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
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Willem de Kooning (1904 - )
What's the point of havin' a rapier wit if I can't use it to stab people?
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Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content, #1615, March 2010

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