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This edition was generated on Tue May 17 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:

Dominique Strauss-Kahn AP
Pressure rises against IMF chief held at NYC jail AP – 3 mins ago

NEW YORK – Pressure built Tuesday for Dominique Strauss-Kahn to consider resigning as chief of the International Monetary Fund after he was charged with trying to rape a maid at a New York hotel. Full Story »

Irish Army Rangers take up positions at Casement Aerodrome, Baldonnel, Ireland, Tuesday May 17, 2011, ahead of the arrival of Britain's Queen Elizab
Despite bomb, Queen visits Ireland on peace trip AP – 47 mins ago
Shukri Ghanem
Tunisian source: Libyan oil minister defects AP – 20 mins ago

Sports News

Yahoo! Reuters Headlines-Sports:

TRENDING NOW:'SNL' star's smash and Jon Stewart's next clash

Michael Hursfeld, Shawn Stuckey AP

Lockout remains after appeals court sides with NFL

AP – 1 hr 38 mins ago

MINNEAPOLIS – After a series of stinging rebukes from federal judges, the NFL has a significant, favorable ruling in hand from a higher court. Full Story »

Michael Brantley, Jack Hannahan, Matt Treanor

Reliever Mazzaro makes history, allows 14 runs

AP – Tue May 17, 2:19 am ET
2,018 residents sing during a nationwide Grand Chorus Celebration as part of efforts to let the world know about how passionately Koreans want to host

2018 bid cities to make pitches to IOC members

AP – Tue May 17, 4:25 am ET

Business News

Yahoo! Reuters Headlines-Business:

TRENDING NOW:'SNL' star's smash and Jon Stewart's next clash

Traders work after the opening bell on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in New York Reuters

Futures pare gains after HP results

Reuters – 6 mins ago

NEW YORK (Reuters) – The S&P 500 and Dow index futures rose slightly on Tuesday, but gains were capped after disappointing results from Hewlett-Packard. Full Story »

Wal-Mart tops view; key sales down 1.1 percent

Reuters – 19 mins ago

Housing starts and permits fall in April

Reuters – 7 mins ago

Miscellaneous Daily Stuff

Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - May 17, 2011
Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance.
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William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
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I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
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Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
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A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.
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Robertson Davies
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Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.
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Christopher Morley (1890 - 1957)
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