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This edition was generated on Wed May 18 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:

A woman picks up a copy of a newspaper headlining on IMF head arrest at a news stand in Paris, Tuesday May, 17, 2011. International Monetary Fund chie AP
IMF head on suicide watch in New York City jail AP – 26 mins ago

NEW YORK – The maid came from one of the world's poorest countries to the U.S., working to support the teen daughter she raised alone. The penthouse suite at the Sofitel Hotel was just another room; she had no idea the man she says tried to rape her was a famous French politician. Full Story »

Christine Lagarde
Strauss-Kahn seems on way out, one way or another AP – 2 hrs 14 mins ago
Study: Homosexuality, celibacy didn't cause abuse AP – 1 hr 34 mins ago

Sports News

Yahoo! Reuters Headlines-Sports:

TRENDING NOW:Shuttle photo launches woman's Web fame

Dirk Nowitzki AP

Nowitzki scores 48 as Mavs top Thunder in Game 1

AP – 2 hrs 15 mins ago

DALLAS – Facing a long, boring wait for his next playoff game, Dirk Nowitzki did what he normally does. He went to the gym. Full Story »

Michael Hursfeld, Shawn Stuckey

Another round of NFL talks ends without agreement

AP – Tue May 17, 7:50 pm ET
Dan Gilbert

Out of the cellar: Cavaliers win No. 1 draft pick

AP – Wed May 18, 4:41 am ET

Business News

Yahoo! Reuters Headlines-Business:

TRENDING NOW:Shuttle photo launches woman's Web fame

The Dow Jones industrial average dropped 68.79 points, or 0.55 percent, to 12,479.58 Reuters

Futures flat on caution before Fed minutes

Reuters – 8 mins ago

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Stock index futures were little changed on Wednesday as investors turned cautious before news from the Federal Reserve, offsetting gains in computer maker Dell and a rebound in commodity prices. Full Story »

File photo of shoppers exiting a Target store with their purchases in Fairfax

Target beats estimates on credit cards

Reuters – 15 mins ago
A Staples store display window is pictured in New York

Staples posts weak Q1 results, slashes outlook

Reuters – 19 mins ago

Miscellaneous Daily Stuff

Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - May 18, 2011
I think the world is run by 'C' students.
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Al McGuire
Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.
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Robert Benchley (1889 - 1945)
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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), Self-Reliance
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
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Willa Cather (1873 - 1947)
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