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This edition was generated on Sat Sep 5 08:45:01 EDT 2009

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:

FILE - In this Aug. 4, 2009 file photo, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Sen. AP
Health care bill expected soon from Senate panel AP – 1 hr 13 mins ago

WASHINGTON – Signaling it's time for action, the Senate's chief negotiator on a health care bill told his colleagues he won't wait much longer for a Republican compromise. Full Story »

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U.S. News

The way a few teachers tell it, the elementary school in the central Illinois farming town suddenly started giving off freakish cracking and popping sounds on a Saturday not too long ago. Walls sprouted lightning bolt-shaped cracks and floors buckled, dooming the building on a day no students thankfully were inside. Full Story »

World News

Trade and oil considerations played a major role in the decision to include the Lockerbie bomber in a prisoner transfer agreement between Britain and Libya, a senior British official said in an interview published Saturday. Full Story »

Entertainment News

Jackson tomb remains a mystery at LA-area cemetery

AP – Fri Sep 4, 6:27 pm ET

The massive marble and concrete Great Mausoleum at Forest Lawn Memorial Park was slightly accessible by the public before Michael Jackson was entombed somewhere in its maze of floors and hallways. Full Story »

News Services

Sports News

Yahoo! Reuters Headlines-Sports:

Rafael Nadal of Spain pumps his fist against Nicolas Kiefer of Germany during AP

Nadal win caps off perfect second round for top 16

AP – 57 mins ago

NEW YORK – Sweating through a pivotal game in a match that was becoming more difficult than expected, Rafael Nadal finally broke through. He hit his winner, pumped his fist three times and shouted "Vamos!" — Let's Go. Full Story »

Business News

Yahoo! Reuters Headlines-Business:

FILE - In this March 10, 2009 file photo, Bernard Madoff exits Manhattan federal AP

Report shows investigators botched Madoff probes

AP – 1 hr 2 mins ago

WASHINGTON – Disgraced financier Bernard Madoff tried by turns to bully and impress the federal examiners who looked into his business, but the investigators managed by themselves to botch the probes and enable Madoff's multibillion-dollar fraud to continue for nearly two decades, a new report shows. Full Story »

  • Fannie Mae meets price listing standard

    AP – Fri Sep 4, 12:06 pm ET  

    WASHINGTON - Fannie Mae, the government-backed mortgage company, said Friday it regained compliance with the New York Stock Exchange's minimum price standard for listing common stock. Full Story »

  • Enterprise sells $150 million of shares

    AP – Fri Sep 4, 5:35 pm ET  

    HOUSTON - Enterprise Products Partners LP, which transports natural gas and oil through its pipeline network, on Friday said it agreed to sell $150 million worth of common stock. Full Story »

  • FHA says won't need congressional support

    Reuters – Fri Sep 4, 2:16 pm ET  
    A new home sits for sale in Lemont, Illinois in this July 27,... Reuters

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Housing Administration said on Friday it would not need a congressional subsidy even if mortgage-related losses push its reserves below a level demanded by Congress. Full Story »

  • Hovnanian CEO sees signs of housing market bottom

    AP – Thu Sep 3, 3:26 pm ET  

    Hovnanian Enterprises Inc.'s chief executive said Thursday the homebuilder has begun buying land, raising home prices and reopening previously mothballed developments in response to signs that the worst of the housing market slide has passed. Full Story »

  • Feds Hit Pfizer with a $2.3 Billion Fine

    BusinessWeek – Fri Sep 4, 8:08 am ET  

    Pfizer will pay a record $2.3 billion fine and plead guilty to one felony count to settle federal criminal and civil charges that it illegally promoted its Bextra painkiller and other drugs. The fine had been first reported back in January, but Justice Dept. officials disclosed details of the settlement on Sept. 2 in a splashy news conference that served as a pointed warning to other drug companies that it plans to come down hard on the industry for fraudulent marketing. Full Story »

Miscellaneous Daily Stuff

Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - September 5, 2009
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
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George Orwell (1903 - 1950), "Animal Farm"
Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
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George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
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Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Model Millionaire, 1912
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
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Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), (attributed)

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