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This edition was generated on Thu May 19 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
IMF chief resigns, will make new bid for bail AP – 32 mins ago

NEW YORK – Hours after Dominique Strauss-Kahn resigned from his post as manager of the International Monetary Fund — saying he felt compelled to focus his energy on the sexual assault charges he faces — the French politician will try to get out of jail. Full Story »

Barack Obama
Obama's Mideast speech offers punishment, praise AP – 1 hr 56 mins ago
An Anderson Tully Company employee drives around the top of a berm built to hold out the swollen Mississippi river in Vicksburg, Miss., Wednesday, May
Long-feared flood rolls toward La. bayou country AP – 1 hr 27 mins ago

Sports News

Yahoo! Reuters Headlines-Sports:

TRENDING NOW:Schwarzenegger's mistress, Oprah's big bash

LeBron James AP

James owns crunch time as Heat top Bulls in Game 2

AP – 1 hr 57 mins ago

CHICAGO – Right from the start, LeBron James made it clear he was going to attack and no one was going to stop him. Full Story »

Chris Higgins

Canucks rout Sharks 7-3 for 2-0 lead in series

AP – Thu May 19, 4:04 am ET
IOC President Jacques Rogge, left, and Gunilla Lindberg, head of the IOC Evaluation Commission seen at the start of the Munich 2018 Winter Olympic pre

IOC expects TV rights bids from NBC, ESPN and Fox

AP – 1 hr 28 mins ago

Business News

Yahoo! Reuters Headlines-Business:

TRENDING NOW:Schwarzenegger's mistress, Oprah's big bash

The Dow Jones industrial average gained 80.60 points, or 0.65 percent, to 12,560.18 Reuters

Futures gain as investors eye jobs, housing data

Reuters – 17 mins ago

NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. stock index futures edged higher on Thursday, with investors bracing for data on the labor market and housing that could determine the direction of the market. Full Story »

Job seekers attend a career fair at Rutgers University in New Brunswick

Jobless claims fall, 4-week average hits 6-month high

Reuters – 4 mins ago
People walk past the main Sears store in downtown Vancouver, British Columbia

Sears disappoints on weak sales in U.S., Canada

Reuters – 1 hr 8 mins ago

Miscellaneous Daily Stuff

Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - May 19, 2011
Most people ignore most poetry
because
most poetry ignores most people.
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Adrian Mitchell
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Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.
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Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988), The Peter Principle (1969), chapter 1
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The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
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Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet.
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William Gibson (1948 - )
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