Yahoo Investors Back Icahn as Company Weighs Options (Update2) - Bloomberg

Yahoo Investors Back Icahn as Company Weighs Options (Update2) - Bloomberg
May 20 (Bloomberg) -- Billionaire investor Carl Icahn , pressing Yahoo! Inc. to rekindle takeover talks with Microsoft Corp. , won more support from shareholders as the Internet company weighed new proposals from its former suitor. T. Boone Pickens , chairman of BP Capital LLC, told CNBC today that
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NFL picks Indianapolis as site for 2012 Super Bowl - Reuters
CHICAGO (Reuters) - The National Football League on Tuesday said it chose Indianapolis to host the 2012 Super Bowl, the U.S. league's championship game and one of the most heavily viewed shows on U.S. television every year. A year after coming up short in its bid to host the NFL's big game
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Jury will see child sex tape in R. Kelly trial - MSNBC
CHICAGO - A prosecutor in the child pornography trial of R. Kelly warned jurors Tuesday they would have to watch a videotape depicting an “underage child performing sex acts that you have never seen before.” “A child doesn’t choose to be violated and placed on a videotape, a videotape that
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Oil settles above $129 for first time - Kansas City Star
Traders work in the crude oil options pit at the New York Mercantile Exchange, Tuesday, May 20, 2008. Oil prices spiked to a new trading high, sweeping toward $130 a barrel as supply concerns intensified the momentum buying that has lifted crude deeper into record territory. Gasoline, meanwhile
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Clinton, Obama compete in Oregon, Kentucky - Houston Chronicle
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Barack Obama competed with Hillary Rodham Clinton in Kentucky and Oregon primaries on Tuesday, the latest contests in a historic Democratic presidential race moving inexorably his way. Before vote-counting began, Obama had 1,917 delegates, little more than 100 shy of the 2,026
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China Acts Quickly To Resettle Refugees - Wall Street Journal
DUJIANGYAN, China -- The earthquake that hit China's Sichuan province last week has spawned one of the world's largest refugee crises in recent memory -- now an estimated five million homeless people. China's government is responding by applying Communist Party organizational strategy and lots of
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Doctors Say Ted Kennedy Has Brain Tumor - NPR News
Doctors in Boston say Sen. Ted Kennedy has a malignant brain tumor, the apparent cause of the seizure he suffered on Saturday. Kennedy has been resting at Boston's Massachusetts General Hospital since the seizure. The tumor is a malignant glioma, located in Kennedy's left parietal lobe — about at
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Clint, Angelina, Gwyneth at Cannes - Reuters UK
May 20 - Clint Eastwood and Angelina Jolie wow critics with 'The Exchange' while Gwyneth Paltrow returns to the big screen. Palme d'Or favourites includes animated docu-drama "Waltz with Bashir" and the the Neapolitan crime film "Gomorrah". Cindy Martin reports
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