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This edition was generated on Sat Jun 13 08:45:01 EDT 2009

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

General News Update

Yahoo! Reuters Headlines-General News:

Iranian riot police kick and beat a man in Fatemi square next to the Interior AP
Iran declares win for Ahmadinejad in disputed vote at AP – 11 mins ago

TEHRAN, Iran – Iran declared President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad the winner Saturday of an election that pitted the conservative establishment against candidate with broad backing from the country's youth. Riot police attacked opposition supporters, beating them with clubs and smashing cars. Full Story »

Visitors walk next to a sign of North Korea's missiles at a unification
NKorea says it will 'weaponize' its plutonium at AP – 1 hr 58 mins ago
Pittsburgh Penguins' Sidney Crosby hoists the Stanley Cup after the Penguins
Perfect ending for Crosby as Pens lift Stanley Cup at AP – 2 hrs 31 mins ago

Sports News

Yahoo! Reuters Headlines-Sports:

Pittsburgh Penguins' Sidney Crosby hoists the Stanley Cup after the Penguins AP

Perfect ending for Crosby as Pens lift Stanley Cup

at AP – 2 hrs 30 mins ago

DETROIT – Sidney Crosby lifted the Stanley Cup, injured knee and all, with a smile of satisfaction as wide as a goal crease. A few handoffs later, the silver trophy was passed to Mario Lemieux, and how fitting. Two stars, two generations, two captains joined together by one Stanley Cup that took some bad teams and the good drafts that followed them, a tremendous comeback and one unlikely Game 7 goal scorer to accomplish. Full Story »

New York Mets relief pitcher Francisco Rodriguez reacts to teammate Luis

Castillo's error gives Yankees wild win over Mets

at AP – Fri Jun 12, 11:24 pm ET

Padres ace Peavy out for at least a month

at AP – Fri Jun 12, 11:00 pm ET

Business News

Yahoo! Reuters Headlines-Business:

A group photo at the strat of the G-8 Finance ministers meeting, in Lecce, AP

G-8 officials turn to IMF over stimulus withdrawal

at AP – 37 mins ago

LECCE, Italy – Finance officials from the Group of Eight industrialized nations have agreed to ask the International Monetary Fund to study ways to unwind hefty stimulus packages once an economic recovery is certain. Full Story »

Obama wants new cuts in federal health spending

at AP – 53 mins ago
FILE -- In this Oct. 24, 2007 file photo, Rep. Mike Pence, R-Ind., listens to

GOP slams Democrats' climate bill as an energy tax

at AP – 2 hrs 5 mins ago

  • Summers: market interventions only temporary

    at Reuters – Fri Jun 12, 2:17 pm ET
    Lawrence Summers, director of the White House National Economic... Reuters

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Chief White House economic adviser Lawrence Summers on Friday vigorously defended the administration's aid for banks and carmakers as necessary, temporary measures rather than lasting market intrusions. Full Story »

  • Toll Brothers posts narrower loss for Q2

    at AP – Wed Jun 3, 2:50 pm ET

    Toll Brothers Inc. said Wednesday it trimmed its losses in the second fiscal quarter and is seeing a pickup in the number of homebuyers who are ready to put down deposits. Full Story »

  • Euro zone industrial output in record fall

    at AP – Fri Jun 12, 9:52 am ET

    LONDON - Industrial production in the 16 countries that use the euro slumped in the year to April, official figures showed Friday, more indication that the euro zone may emerge from recession later than the United States or Britain. Full Story »

  • NJ mortgage company president guilty in $139M scam

    at AP – Thu Jun 11, 8:07 pm ET

    NEWARK, N.J. - The former president of a New Jersey mortgage company has pleaded guilty in a $139 million fraud scheme that bankrupted his firm. Full Story »

  • China output, sales up as stimulus takes effect

    at AFP – Fri Jun 12, 6:33 am ET
    Stacks of China Shipping containers at Jakarta's international... AFP/File

    BEIJING (AFP) - China's May industrial output and retail sales both grew at a faster pace than in previous months, the government said Friday, as massive stimulus measures introduced since last year kicked in. Full Story »

  • Mortgage Rates Head for 6 percent: 5 Reasons They Might Retreat

    at U.S. News & World Report – Fri Jun 12, 9:59 am ET

    Only a couple of months ago, exceptionally low mortgage rates were one of the few optimistic landmarks in an otherwise bleak economic outlook. After the Federal Reserve unveiled a series of initiatives beginning last fall--such as purchasing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac mortgage-backed securities and long-term treasury bonds--mortgage rates plunged to all-time lows. In early April, with 30-year fixed mortgage rates dropping to less than 5 percent, President Barack Obama beseeched homeowners everywhere to capitalize on the development by refinancing their mortgages. ... Full Story »

  • Nigerian militants: we destroyed Chevron pipeline

    at AFP – Fri Jun 12, 8:58 pm ET
    File photo of a policeman next to an oil pipeline that was vandalised... AFP/File

    LAGOS (AFP) - Nigeria's main militant group said it had destroyed an oil pipeline belonging to the US company Chevron in the country's southern Delta region. Full Story »

  • Sen. Dodd urges consumer finance protection agency

    at Reuters – Thu Jun 11, 1:35 pm ET

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd on Thursday called for creation of an independent consumer protection agency as part of wider reforms to the U.S. financial regulatory structure. Full Story »

  • May foreclosures third highest on record

    at Reuters – Thu Jun 11, 7:38 pm ET
    The sign for a foreclosed house for sale sits at the property... Reuters

    NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. foreclosure activity for May ebbed from April's record, but mortgages still failed at a staggering pace as President Barack Obama's rescue programs had not had time to fully take root, RealtyTrac said on Thursday. Full Story »

  • Home Depot's Higher but Fragile Hopes

    at BusinessWeek Online – Fri Jun 12, 8:08 am ET

    Home Depot (hd.) offered some encouragement to bullish investors on June 10 when the retailer raised its earnings estimates for the year. The home improvement giant also unveiled a variety of ways executives are trying to improve and cut costs in areas ranging from its supply chain to information technology and employee training. Full Story »

Miscellaneous Daily Stuff

Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - June 13, 2009
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
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Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks.
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Steve Martin (1945 - )
The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.
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William H. Borah
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Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.
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Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996), Cosmos (Blues for a Red Planet)
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