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This edition was generated on Thu May 12 08:45:01 EDT 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:

Death of Osama bin Laden
A Pakistan army soldier and a police officer stand guard in a street near the house of former al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan AP
Officials: Bin Laden eyed small cities as targets AP – 59 mins ago

WASHINGTON – Though hunted and in hiding, Osama bin Laden remained the driving force behind every recent al-Qaida terror plot, U.S. officials say, citing his private journal and other documents recovered in last week's raid. Full Story »

Sports News

Yahoo! Reuters Headlines-Sports:

Doc Rivers AP

East finals bound: Miami ousts Boston, 97-87

AP – 1 hr 26 mins ago

MIAMI – He scored the game's final 10 points. He knelt on the court when it was over. He even apologized afterward for any feelings that may have been hurt last summer when he left Cleveland for Miami. Full Story »

Durant, Thunder ease past Grizzlies, 99-72

AP – Thu May 12, 4:23 am ET

Fiesta Bowl fined $1 million, but stays in BCS

AP – Wed May 11, 9:29 pm ET
Trader Edward Baumann works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Reuters

Stock futures slide with commodities, Cisco

Reuters – 48 mins ago

NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. stock index futures fell on Thursday as a continuing slide in commodities prompted an unwinding of bets on risky assets, including equities, while a sour outlook from Cisco hurt technology stocks. Full Story »

Miscellaneous Daily Stuff

Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - May 12, 2011
I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
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Sir Edward Appleton (1892 - 1965)
I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.
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Georges Duhamel (1884 - 1966)
What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens.
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Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult.
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Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), Life of Boerhaave

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