Dancing With the Stars 2011 Winner : Kirstie Alley’s final performances (Video)

Dancing With the Stars 2011 Winner : Kirstie Alley’s final performances (Video) The Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver had fans cheering and black-and-gold towels waving as he samba-ed his way to a victory as the season 12 winner of "Dancing with the Stars" ahead of fellow finalists Kirstie Alley and Chelsea Kane. "Starting this competition, I never thought I'd make it to the finals," the always-humble NFL player said upon being named winner. "I owe it all to Kym, who's the most amazing teacher." Ward, who originally performed the high-energy samba during "personal story" week, dedicated his dance to his mother, who sat front-row in the...

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Gabriella Pasqualotto Mumbai Cheerleader girl blog

South African cheerleader, IPL Mumbai team, Gabriella Pasqualotto was posting secretly blogging about the fun and flirting that take in post match parties. Pasqualotto had written that some players and celebrity sponsors treat grils like “like pieces of meat”.In her blog, she claimed that the Aussies were “naughty”, one of them playing “kissing catches” with some of the girls despite his girlfriend waiting at home for him, while “Ol’ Graeme Smith will flirt with anything while his girlfriend walks behind him”.“Usually only after day matches there is an exclusive after party and at night is when it all happens. The music pumps, the drinks flow...

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Mississippi River Reaches Record High

There's a reason they call it the "Mighty" Mississippi: As heavy rains pound the river's basin and drive water levels above their record heights, the mayor of Memphis has warned city residents to prepare for a possible "large-scale disaster." Officials have begun building sandbag buffers around the city and raised levees where water levels have climbed to dangerous heights. Thousands have evacuated the city, leaving their homes behind to live in tents and campers at higher grounds. One woman showed CBS News correspondent Mark Strassman photos of her submerged home north of Memphis. "What's next? We've never had anything like this. We've...

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Mississippi State sweeps Vols, wins 5-2

In all, the Volunteers were 1-for-17 with runners on base and 0-for-6 with runners in scoring position on Sunday. They will return to the diamond at 7 p.m. on Tuesday to host the opener of a home-and-home midweek series against Middle Tennessee State. UT will travel to Murfreesboro on Wednesday.“Our kids played hard,” UT Head Coach Todd Raleigh said. “As a coach, that’s all you can ask for. I thought we put ourselves in a position to win. I’m proud of the way they played. I thought we were ready. We just needed that one hit to clear the bases. (Mississippi State) made a great play with two outs in the sixth, but we have to overcome that....

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No. 7 Georgia powers past Mississippi State

Seventh-ranked Georgia hit four, two-out home runs en route to defeating Mississippi State, 10-2, in five innings on Sunday afternoon in front of a Jack Turner Stadium crowd of 1,311.JJunior Brittney Hubbard (3-for-3) provided Georgia (44-10, 17-9 Southeastern Conference) with two of the four home runs, a solo shot in the second and two-run blast in the third. Two batters before Hubbard’s two-run homer, junior Ashley Razey drilled a three-run homer. The fourth home run of the game for UGA was also of the two-run variety off of the bat of senior Brianna Hesson (2-for-3) in the fourth. All four home runs were to left field and all four...

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Karnataka 2nd PUC results 2011 & SSLC Results will be Out in 2nd Week of May

Karnataka 2nd PUC results 2011 & SSLC results will be out by May 15 2011. 6.24 lakh were appeared for pre-university exams this year.Minister of Primary and secondary education – Vishweshwar Hegde Kageri told on Saturday that the specific dates for Karnataka PUC results have not been confirmed yet, but results will come in middle of May month. Valuation of all answer scripts has been completed on April 29, 2011 so PUC results 2011 will be available soon.SSLC Evaluation of first language papers has also got over by May 2, 20...

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Energy's CEO Discusses Q1 2011 Results

Thank you very much, Thea. Good morning, everyone. This is Marianne Paulsen, Director of Investor Relations for CenterPoint Energy. I'd like to welcome you to our first quarter 2011 earnings conference call. Thank you for joining us today. David McClanahan, President and CEO; and Gary Whitlock, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, will discuss our first quarter 2011 results and will also provide highlights of the key activities. In addition to Mr. McClanahan and Mr. Whitlock, we have other members of management with us who may assist in answering questions following their prepared remarks. Our earnings press release...

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Merhaba Genç Kalmak İsteyen Arkadaşla

Bu gün sizlerle nasıl genç kalınacağı ve yaşlanmayı gecirtirmeye yarayan bir yazımı sunacağım. Bunları deneyenlerin görüşlerini aldım ve kendilerini genç hissettiklerini belirtiyorlar… Cilt yaşlanmasında etkili bir elaman olan güneş ışınları, beslenme alışkanlıkları, derinin dış fiziksel ve kimyasal uyarılara fazla maruz kalması, sigara kullanımı, fazla alkol tüketiminin yaşlanmayı ve beraberinde gelişen yaşlılık belirtilerini artırabildiği, bu etkilerden kaçınılmasının yaşlanmayı yavaşlatacağı uzmanlar tarafından tavsiye ediliyor. Amerikan Hastanesi Dermatoloji Bölümü’nden Dr. Buket Pençe, “En büyük organ olan deri de diğer organlarla...

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Japan's Akira Kurosawa has influenced other moviemakers for decades

How do you know when you have stumbled into a dangerous part of town? A few broken windows? Stares from unfriendly locals, perhaps? How about seeing a dog carrying a severed human hand? That was the way the Japanese auteur, Akira Kurosawa, chose to warn us that his protagonist was entering a lawless and violent place in the opening minutes of Yojimbo (Bodyguard). The black-and-white classic, which turned 50 last week, sees a ronin (masterless samurai, played to perfection by the Kurosawa regular Toshiro Mifune) offering his services to two rival crime bosses in the feudal village. Rather than fulfilling his role as faithful servant, however,...

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Keanu Reeves Akira Role - Vince Vaughn for Lay the Favorite?

Movie notes - Will Keanu Reeves take on Akira? Obsesses with Film reveals the actor is reportedly mulling over the role and add that "for the film adaptation of Akira, the setting has changed from the futuristic Neo-Tokyo to a ‘rebuilt’ New Manhatten with the idea of Hollywoodising and watering down the themes and turning it into a PG-13 rated fare aimed at American audiencesSee more on the big budget film and the attempts to land Reeves here.More film role notes...Vince Vaughn is reportedly in talks to join the cast of new movie Lay the Favorite.According to Variety, the new independent film is being directed by Stephen Frears and stars...

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Change your KLM frequent flyer card for a Lufthansa one

A very smart marketing idea from Lufthansa: If you are a KLM frequent flyer you can get a Lufthansa frequent flyer card at the same level in their Miles & More program. Or actually you can get an even better deal, because both KLM Gold and Platinum card holders are eligible for a Lufthansa Senator card. And you will keep your status until February 2013! The only thing you need to do is book one return flight on Lufthansa or one its European partners, fill out a form and upload a copy of your KLM Flying Blue card. Despite flying way too much I was downgraded from Platinum to Gold in the KLM program last year. KLM is incredibly stingy with...

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Tamil Nadu State Board (HSC) 12th result out

9% rise in overall pass percentagePUDUCHERRY: The pass percentage in the plus two public examination held in March this year in Puducherry and Karaikkal is 83.54.This was higher by about 9% compared to 74.63 percentage last year, Director of School Education G Panneerselvam told reporters releasing the results.He said out of 11,428 candidates appeared for the examination in the two regions, 9547 students have emerged successf...

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Muslims, Christians Clash In Cairo, Egypt After Mob Burns Church

Hundreds of Christians and Muslims hurled stones at each other in downtown Cairo on Sunday, hours after Muslim mobs set fire to a church and a Christian-owned apartment building in a frenzy of violence that killed 12 people and injured more than 200.The deepening religious violence in military-ruled Egypt is exacerbating the lawlessness and disorder of the country's bumpy transition to democracy after three decades of autocratic rule under former President Hosni Mubarak was brought to an end in February.Muslim youths attacked a large crowd of Coptic Christian protesters marching from the headquarters of Egypt's general prosecutor to the state...

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Man Sentenced To Life In Prison After Fourth Marijuana Conviction

A single such conviction on the north shore landed the 35-year-old in prison for the rest of his life.State Judge Raymond S. Childress punished Hood under Louisiana's repeat-offender law in his courtroom in Covington on Thursday. A jury on Feb. 15 found the defendant guilty of attempting to possess and distribute marijuana at his Slidell home, court records show.Hood moved from eastern New Orleans to the Slidell area after he admitted to separate charges of distribution of marijuana and possession with intent to distribute marijuana on Dec. 18, 2009, in Orleans Parish Criminal District Court. He received a suspended five-year prison sentence...

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Tamilnadu State Board (HSC) 12th Result 2011 Today

School Education Minister Thangam Thennarasu had earlier announced that the results of (HSC - Plus Two) Class 12 Board Examinations in which more than 8 lakh students participated would be declared today i.e. May 9,2011. These results can be checked on the various results portals of Tamil Nadu, when declared, or students can send the SMS to 56263 after typing RESULT(space)TN12(space)REGISTRATION NO. to check the results via mobile.Students are expected to do well in chemistry and biology as the test was easier than that of last year where as physics question paper was tough compared to the previous year. Maths question paper contained the typographical...

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Panda vs. Peacock: Animal Chase At Zoo In China (VIDEO)

In this video featured on The Today Show, a panda at a zoo in China's Hubei Province chases a peacock that had hopped the wall from a nearby cage.According to the report, when a panda is happy, it is more likely to engage in a chase, and thus, as anchor Dara Brown says, "the peacock was unlucky to find the panda in a happy mood."What this clip fails to show is just how unlucky the peacock was -- the panda actually killed the peacock, according to The Telegraph. That missing detail makes this cute video turn dark quite quickly.WAT...

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Explosions Rock Town Where Osama Bin Laden Was Killed

ABBOTTABAD, Pakistan -- Witnesses say two loud explosions have rocked the Pakistani town where Osama bin Laden was killed in a U.S. raid.The source of the blasts was not immediately clear. An Associated Press team at the compound where bin Laden was living before the April 29 raid saw no signs of unusual activity Sunday.There had been speculation that authorities might demolish the house in Abbottabad to try to stop the intense media attention on the to...

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Nadal's Phenomenal Through-The-Legs Winner

Despite losing to Novak Djokovic in the Madrid Open Final on Sunday, Rafael Nadal made the highlight of the match with a through-the-legs winner.In the second set, Djokovic hit a soft lob over the head of Nadal and sent him sprinting to the baseline. The Spaniard chased down the ball and hit a between-the-legs lob winner.It's not the first time that Djokovic has come up on the losing end of highlights like this one. Roger Federer nailed a jaw-dropping through-the-legs-shot against Djokovic in the 2009 U.S. Open.WAT...

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Senator demands immediate action to curb Mecca odors

Sen. Barbara Boxer is demanding that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency act immediately to protect Mecca residents from strong chemical odors that have been blamed for illnesses in the rural Coachella Valley community. In a May 5 letter to EPA administrator Lisa Jackson, the California Democrat asked that Jackson personally intervene to help families "living in unbearable conditions caused by the horrendous odors." Last week, EPA officials announced at a public meeting in Mecca that the agency is investigating Western Environmental Inc., a contaminated-soil recycling plant on the community's north side, for possible violation...

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Thor Review: Good God, Y'all

Kenneth Branagh’s Thor faces one of the most difficult challenges among the Avengers origin stories. It’s not the most accessible of stories, which is saying something when we’re talking about a universe consisting of men turning into ornery not-very-jolly green giants and pew! pew! rocketpack tin men. Yet all of those are somehow based on science, and in the universe we know. Thor’s character was always one of the more peculiar in comic books — a character born from ancient history and mythology, and inexplicably thrust into this new world of science and aliens and monsters. And yet, Thor is a surprisingly enjoyable experience,...

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Pakistani Officials Have No Record Of Man Killed With Bin Laden

The man known to his neighbors in the Bilal Town district of Abbottabad as Arshad Khan was said to have built the large compound in which Osama bin Laden was living in 2005 after acquiring several smaller plots of land. May 06, 2011 CHARSADDA, Pakistan -- Pakistani officials say they have no record of the man said to be the owner of the compound in which Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was killed this week, RFE/RL's Radio Mashaal reports.The identification card of Arshad Khan was found on one of the four men killed along with bin Laden by U.S. Special Operations Forces in the compound in the northern Pakistani city of Abbottabad...

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YEAR LATER: Family haunted by Corona golfer's death

It was Mother's Day, so Debbie Blasberg was at San Juan Hills Golf Club. For six years, she'd made a personal tradition of playing the course nestled in the San Juan Capistrano hills, taking advantage of the free round offered as a special thank you to mom golfers like herself. She always liked the course, and she was in good company, in fine spirits; all was well, except that she finished her round without hearing from her daughter. Understandable, considering Erica was scheduled to be getting settled in preparation for that week's Ladies Professional Golf...

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Army Tanks Enter Syrian Flashpoint City Banias -- Activists

Antigovernment protesters in the Syrian port city of Banias May 07, 2011 Syrian army units stormed into the city of Banias with tanks overnight, attacking the districts that had defied the rule of President Bashar al-Assad.Human rights activists say the units entered the city on the night of May 6-May 7 from three directions.Electricity and communications were cut as the tanks entered the southern sector of the city on the Mediterranean coast, the bastion of the protesters.Meanwhile, the White House has warned that the United States and its international partners will take what it calls "additional steps" against the Syrian regime...

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Readers recommend: songs about divorce

This week's theme provides a sobering antidote to too much wedding fizz: is there a nice song for a decree nisi?Last week we considered songs about weddings. With indecent haste we now ask you for songs about the end of the affair.Breaking up is hard to do. But sometimes, it's also the right thing to do. It's an often bitter and bloody time, but it can also be one of renewal, a triumphant moment of independence and a celebration of personal freedom.So let's hear some anthems for the decoupled, the freshly liberated ex...

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'Glee': Hear the 'Prom Queen' Songs

It's finally here: McKinley High's prom! What can viewers expect from the 'Glee' prom episode? Lots of drama, a very popular Adele song, ABBA and, oh, did we mention drama?!Jesse and Rachel perform a duet of Adele's 'Rolling in the Deep,' and Mercedes and Santana take the leads on ABBA's 'Dancing Queen.'Blaine, with help from Tina and Brittany sing Black Kids' 'I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How to Dance With You,' Artie sings Stevie Wonder's 'Isn't She Lovely' and Rachel gets a solo on Christina Perri's 'Jar of Hearts.'Be on the lookout for the boys to sing Rebecca Black's Internet hit 'Frida...

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So-so songs let down Little Women

If you read Little Women when you were a girl -and yes, you're definitely a girl if you did -you'll get why showbiz has long wanted to get its mitts on Louisa May Alcott's much-loved 1868 novel about the March sisters of Concord, Mass.Devoted single parent, trying circumstances (genteel poverty, the Civil War), sisterly bonding and friction, coming-of-age romance, youthful dreams, a good-die-young death scene. . C'mon, the showbiz possibilities are, to borrow a song from Marmee, "days of plenty."The version of Little Women now onstage in a deluxe Citadel production may not have been a success on Broadway, where it ran, briefly, in 2005....

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A Musical Tribute to Frank Sinatra 'My Way'

More nightclub show than theater, My Way: A Musical Tribute to Frank Sinatra is two hours of pure entertainment. There are no big thoughts to think, no complex plot to follow. Just a slew of great songs, sung by four talented performers, accompanied by two terrific musicians, with a bar in the lobby and a vaguely loungey atmosphere in the audience seating. What's not to enjoy? When asked what the key to his success was, Ol' Blue Eyes replied, "Sing good songs." Sinatra recorded 1,300 - most of them better than good. Although the My Way cast members pay tribute to the famous style - the rakish hat, the jacket slung over a shoulder - they...

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Mark Cavendish realistic about his chances in gruelling Giro d'Italia

Mark Cavendish posted a picture of the profile of this year's Giro d'Italia on his Twitter feed on Friday with a suitably pithy comment. He had good reason: of the 21 stages only five are without a major climb, where he will be able to use his sprinting skills to the full as he attempts to add to his career tally of five stage wins in the first major tour of the cycling year."It's one of the toughest Tours of Italy ever and I don't want to ride myself into a box before the Tour de France," Cavendish said this week. "I'll have to take every stage as it comes. For me, as in every grand tour, my goal is to take at least one stage win,...

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Nibali ready to take on Contador at the Giro d'Italia

You Think Pitching Your Startup Idea Is Hard? Watch These Kids Do ItNibali ready to take on Contador at the Giro d'Italiaarmin-Cervelo is gunning for the pink jersey in Saturday’s team time trial to open the Giro d’Italia with hopes of repeating their breakout success in 2008. That year’s Giro win that put Christian Vande Velde into the pink jersey as just the second American to ever lead the Giro was a huge success for Garmin. Now, four years later, Garmin is one of the established teams in the peloton and comes to the Giro intent on making its presence felt from Torino to Milano. Garmin confirmed its Giro nine that includes Americans...

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You Think Pitching Your Startup Idea Is Hard? Watch These Kids Do It

Around eighty entrepreneur hopefuls gathered at NASA AMES last week to pitch their ideas for breakthrough technological products, with the hopes of gaining the funding to make their dreams a reality. But this wasn’t part of the application process for a new fangled startup accelerator program, and the teams weren’t comprised of Valley visionairies in their 20s and 30s but rather high school kids between the ages of 14-18. To compete in the Conrad Foundation’s Spirit of Innovation Awards, each team of high schoolers had to create a business plan, technical report, graphical representation and elevator pitch for their product, presenting their invention to a panel of judges for 10 minutes. All in all 27 finalists competed in the Aerospace, Clean Energy and Cyber security categories...

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Garmin-Cervelo wants Giro d’Italia success

Garmin-Cervelo is gunning for the pink jersey in Saturday’s team time trial to open the Giro d’Italia with hopes of repeating their breakout success in 2008. That year’s Giro win that put Christian Vande Velde into the pink jersey as just the second American to ever lead the Giro was a huge success for Garmin. Now, four years later, Garmin is one of the established teams in the peloton and comes to the Giro intent on making its presence felt from , to Milano. Garmin confirmed its Giro nine that includes Americans Tyler Farrar, Tom Peterson and Peter Stetina with , on the hunt for stages and Christophe Le Mevel for their GC hopes. “The...

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CHART OF THE DAY: AOL's Huge Opportunity (AOL, GOOG, MSFT, YHOO)

CHART OF THE DAY: AOL's Huge Opportunity (AOL, GOOG, MSFT, YHOO)AOL to Team with Book Publishers on Launch of BookishAOL Display Ads Rise but Profit SinksAOL Launching Video ChatJordin Sparks - AOL Music Blog AOL.com - News, Sports, Weather, Entertainment, Local & LifestyleOL Mail: Simple, Free, FunAOL - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaAOL Instant MessengerAOL CEO Tim Armstrong likes to remind people that AOL sites are the fifth most trafficked in the United States. Only Google, Facebook, Yahoo, and Microsoft sites beat AOL's 118 million unique visitors in March. Google, in first, had 176 million. Armstrong also likes to...

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Anwar Al-Awlaki: 9/11 Was An 'Accident' [VIDEO]

Anwar al-Awlaki, the U.S.-born radical cleric who was reportedly targeted this week by an American drone missile, called the September 11, 2001 attacks "an accident" just two days after they occurred.Al-Awalaki spoke on camera to a local television station on September 13. "The mosque has been shut down, since the day of the accident," he said. Al-Awlaki, who was born in New Mexico, was the Imam at the Dar Al Hijrah Mosque in Virginia, which had been vandalized at the time. "We are now working on providing enough security so that we can meet with our community," he said. U.S. Federal officials believe he is the man behind a failed Christmas day "underwear bomber" Umar Farouk Abdulmtallab's attempt to destroy an American airliner. A U.S. military drone fired a missile within...

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Steven Tyler to debut first U.S. solo single on "Idol"

"American Idol" judge and Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler will premiere the video of his first U.S. solo single on the television talent show next week, broadcaster Fox said. Additionally, Lady Gaga will mentor the four remaining contestants on the top-rated show as they battle for a place in the finals. The music video of Tyler's new single "(It) Feels so Good", will be shown on the "American Idol" results show on May 12, Fox said. Tyler, 63, has been embroiled for almost two years in a feud with his Aerosmith bandmates that was further strained when he accepted a job as a judge on...

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Paul McCartney is set to wed for the third time after proposing to his New York businesswoman girlfriend

Paul McCartney is set to wed for the third time after proposing to his New York businesswoman girlfriend of four years, Nancy Shevell.The London-based spokesman for the former Beatle confirmed on Friday that McCartney and Shevell were engaged, but declined to give further details."It's true!", said spokesman Stuart Bell, after People magazine broke news of the engagement.Shevell, 51, who is divorced, and the notoriously private McCartney, 68, are reported to have begun dating about four years ago, following the Fab Four singer's bitter split with second wife, model Heather Mills.They have been seen together frequently at celebrity events and...

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Oprah May Save the Biggest Star in the World for Her Final Guest

It's one of the best kept secrets in all of entertainment: who will be Oprah Winfrey's final guest, ever? With only 20 days left until the the May 25 finale, friends of the talk queen hint that the leading candidate at the moment is the biggest star in the world ... Oprah herself!"How can one celebrity possibly sum up 25 years of such a groundbreaking show?" an insider asks. "Who could possibility come on the show and represent everything Oprah has done" from celebrity interviews, to human-interest stories to politics to women's issues to breaking news.She's done it all, my source says, and "only one person could do that and that is Oprah herself."Oprah...

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Ron Artest has been suspended for Game 3 against the Dallas Mavericks.

Ron Artest has been suspended for Game 3 against the Dallas Mavericks.Ron Artest took out his frustration on Dallas’ J.J. Barea in the final minute of the Los Angeles Lakers’ Game 2 loss to the Mavericks on Wednesday night. Lamar Odom went over to defend Barea as the Mavericks reserve guard dribbled the ball up the court. That is when Artest rushed over and inexplicably clotheslined Barea and was immediately ejected. Charles Barkley said during the TNT postgame show that Artest will get suspended forthe hit. Scroll down to watch the video. In news that didn’t require Nostradmus’ services to predict, Ron Artest has officially been suspended for Friday’s Game 3 in Dallas. The offending sequence, which took place with 24.4 seconds remaining in the game, featured Artest swinging his arm to basically...

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Reuters Defends Decision To Publish Bin Laden Compound Photos

The White House isn’t releasing photos of Osama bin Laden’s dead body, but that didn’t stop Reuters from publishing several gruesome photos Wednesday showing the aftermath of the U.S. raid on bin Laden’s compound in Pakistan and sending them to clients of the wire service. Reuters defended that decision in a statement to The Huffington Post. "As this is a story of global importance, Reuters chose to share these photographs with its media clients and allow them to make editorial decisions on how they were used," a spokesperson said. The news organization declined to comment further on photos showing three, unidentified men lying...

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