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This edition was generated on Mon Sep 21 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:

A soldier from the U.S. Army's 3rd Battalion, 509th Infantry Regiment AP
Report: More troops needed for Afghan war success AP – 1 hr 13 mins ago

WASHINGTON – The situation in Afghanistan is growing worse, and without more boots on the ground the U.S. risks failure in a war it's been waging since September 2001, the top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan says in a confidential report. Full Story »

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U.S. News

Gates Foundation helps bring banking to the poor

AP – Mon Sep 21, 5:06 am ET

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, best known for its work combating malaria, AIDS and other diseases, this week announced an effort to bring banking, including savings accounts, to the poor. Full Story »

World News

Police officers foiled a plan to assassinate a regional education minister in northwestern Pakistan when they engaged four militants in a gunbattle Monday that ended with a teenage suicide bomber blowing himself up, police said. Full Story »

Entertainment News

Emmys acknowledge tough times for TV industry

AP – 1 hr 23 mins ago

A year after its least-watched telecast ever, the Emmy Awards plaintively acknowledged TV's changing role in the Internet age, bringing a collective sense of reckoning to the revamped show with everything from scripted jokes about the decline of networks to unemployed stars openly job-seeking. Full Story »

News Services

Sports News

Yahoo! Reuters Headlines-Sports:

Brazil's Renault driver Nelson Piquet Jr. arrives at the FIA headquarters in AP

Renault gets 2-year suspended ban in crash scandal

AP – 7 mins ago

PARIS – Renault escaped severe punishment Monday for ordering former driver Nelson Piquet Jr. to deliberately crash, receiving only a suspended two-year ban from Formula One's governing body. Full Story »

Business News

Yahoo! Reuters Headlines-Business:

Shadows of Michael Dell, chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Dell, are cast under the company logo as he speaks during a press briefi Reuters

Dell agrees to buy Perot Systems for about $3.9B

AP – 1 min ago

NEW YORK – Dell Inc. said Monday it has agreed to buy the information technology services company Perot Systems Corp. for about $3.9 billion as it looks to expand beyond the personal computer business. Full Story »

  • Fed policymakers likely to maintain aid programs

    AP – Sun Sep 20, 12:58 pm ET  

    WASHINGTON - With the economy starting to rebound but still fragile, Federal Reserve policymakers this week are expected to keep emergency programs to encourage spending and borrowing intact. But to avoid unleashing inflation later on, they are likely to consider ways to rein in programs designed to keep mortgage rates down and get banks to lend more freely. Full Story »

  • Oil prices lower

    AFP – 2 hrs 37 mins ago  
    Oil prices drifted lower, extending pre-weekend losses in quiet... AFP/File

    LONDON (AFP) - Oil prices drifted lower on Monday, extending pre-weekend losses in quiet trade, but analysts warned that volatility could soon return to the market. Full Story »

  • Low expectations for new loan help program

    AP – Sat Sep 19, 11:35 am ET  
    In this Aug. 4, 2009 photo, a bank-owned home is shown in Detroit.... AP

    WASHINGTON - Dial back the pie-in-the-sky projections. Full Story »

  • Gov't home loan agency faces money squeeze

    AP – Fri Sep 18, 5:05 pm ET  

    WASHINGTON - The Federal Housing Administration is tightening rules for lenders after reporting that its financial cushion will sink below mandatory levels for the first time in its 75-year history. Full Story »

  • Wealth Summits Keep Financial Plans in Line

    BusinessWeek – 36 mins ago  

    Coordinated meetings with attorneys, accountants, and financial advisers are common among ultrarich families. These so-called wealth summits enable a team of trusted advisers to share information and brainstorm with their clients on a wide range of legal and financial issues. Full Story »

Miscellaneous Daily Stuff

Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - September 21, 2009
A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.
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Donald Trump (1946 - )
You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.
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Max Beerbohm (1872 - 1956)
Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
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Sidney J. Harris
There is no greater importance in all the world like knowing you are right and that the wave of the world is wrong, yet the wave crashes upon you.
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Norman Mailer (1923 - 2007), Armies Of The Night

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