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California's long-running battle to avert a state water crisis moves from the river delta to Sacramento County Superior Court ...
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Gawker:
Every six weeks, someone comes out with big, exasperated "sigh, kids these days" issue piece about the changing makeup of America's Youth. Today, it's actually about the makeup! And the kind of boys who wear it and girls that (Read More)
New York Times:
The deal, which is expected to be announced in the weeks ahead, is likely to be the first major test of the Obama administration’s media regulators.
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Silicon Alley Insider:
Matthew Garrahan, FT: News Corporation is paying more than $1m a month to rent an empty office complex in Los Angeles that it has been unable to sub-lease since scrapping an ambitious plan to move MySpace and its other digita (Read More)
New York Times:
The sale of the TASC unit for $1.65 billion in cash is another sign that private equity firms are back to their core business of deal-making.
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Wall Street Journal:
LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) -- General Electric Co. and Comcast Corp. have agreed on a valuation of about $30 billion for GE's NBC Universal unit, ironing out what has been a key obstacle in talks to form a joint venture bet (Read More)
The Guardian:
… rarely is the answer, in this new age of multiple marketing models and chief executives guided by bankers and consultantsThe Mad Men account man of legend, with a martini in one hand and a million-dollar deal in his pocket, (Read More)
Crooks and Liars:
There's no questioning the historic nature of the vote. What the Democrats did to get there is pretty ugly (I can't believe we cut a deal with anti-woman C-Street true believer Bart Stupak), but we did get there, and most peo (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
Penguin has teamed up with videogames producer Ubisoft: the novel Assassin's Creed Renaissance is released simultaneously with the game Assassin's Creed IIPenguin Books is embarking on the latest experiment in the publishing (Read More)
The Guardian:
The Press Complaints Commission has found no evidence that it was "materially misled" by the News of the World over the alleged hacking of mobile phones of celebrities, or that the practice was "ongoing".Its statement follows (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
A global tax on banking transactions would curb speculation and the proceeds could break the deadlock on Copenhagen climate talksThe response was predictable. No sooner had Gordon Brown expressed enthusiasm for a global trans (Read More)
Capital Gains and Games:
Take a look at this new website just launched by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco called "the Economy: Crisis & Response," and then admit to yourself that the world has changed in ways that were unimaginable not that (Read More)
Capital Gains and Games:
I still can't tell for sure if this is happening because of some grand design or is just a series of events that add up to something bigger, but it looks to me as if the Republicans have bet the farm...and their future...on (Read More)
Gates of Vienna:
In a video on last night’s post you saw Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff confronting the OSCE “Human Dimension” roundtable on the subject of religiously-inspired violence. On behalf of Pax Europa, Elisabeth is in the process of wri (Read More)
The Guardian:
Coliseum, LondonIn Daniel Kramer's staging, Bartók's only opera, Duke Bluebeard's Castle, makes the queasiest possible first half to ENO's double bill. After it, Fabulous Beast's transformation of The Rite of Spring into an I (Read More)
Business on HuffingtonPost.com:
(Rooters) Washington D.C.Man Bites Dog!In a bold-faced brazen move against their master, on Friday The Obama on administration rejected a proposal by Goldman Sachs to buy as much as $1 billion in tax credits from Fannie Mae, (Read More)
Wall Street Journal:
Bharti chairman Sunil Bharti Mittal says despite the collapse of the merger plan with the South African telecom, the deal was a turning point for government support of Indian entrepreneurship. (Read More)
The Guardian:
Dyson firm also pledges £5m to the Royal College of Art after shares deal nets the inventor £105mSir James Dyson, who pioneered the bagless vacuum cleaner and recently developed a desk fan without blades, has given £45m to hi (Read More)
The Guardian:
Sales of the folding bikes are up more than 25% this year as multicoloured options win younger converts - many of them womenThe Brompton bicycle company is having a fashion moment – well, at least it was until last month when (Read More)
New York Times:
The company opened its 2009-10 season with a program celebrating renovations to its long-imperfect home, now the David H. Koch Theater.
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