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BERLIN (AP) — A new staging of Verdi's "Un Ballo in Maschera" has been retooled for shock value, moving the setting to the smoking ruins of the World Trade Center and inserting liberal doses of flabby flesh and Hitler in drag.
The staging at the Thea...
DATE: May 21, 2008
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LONDON (Bloomberg) — Citigroup Inc. Chairman Win Bischoff said that banks may be emerging from a trough after losses caused by the collapse of the US sub-prime mortgage market.
"In relation to the sub-prime area, we're through the worst," Bischoff sa...
DATE: May 21, 2008
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NEW YORK (AP) – In the closing moments of its season finale on Sunday, "Desperate Housewives" flashed ahead five years.
And while there were no hints to the White House's occupant or the state of the economy in 2013, viewers got a few clues about Wis...
DATE: May 21, 2008
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Patrick Nesbitt moved one step closer to earning his ticket to this summer's Beijing Olympics when he won the first of three jump-offs against Jill Terceira over the weekend.
Both equestrians have qualiifed for the Games but only one can represent th...
DATE: May 21, 2008
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OCEAN CITY, Maryland (Reuters) — After four decades carrying millions of New Yorkers, 44 of the city's subway cars are now home to millions of fish.
The worn-out cars were dumped on Friday into the Atlantic, 21 miles off the Maryland coast, to create...
DATE: May 21, 2008
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Earlier this month, employees at Grossbard & Associates in Houston found an extra $50 in their paycheques. The small accounting firm added the money — and plans to continue doing so on an interim basis — to help its 28 workers cope with rising gasoli...
DATE: May 21, 2008
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NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street stumbled yesterday after oil prices spiked to a new record above $129 a barrel and a government report raised investors' concerns about the impact of inflation on consumer spending. The Dow Jones industrials fell nearly 20...
DATE: May 21, 2008
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Crude oil rose above $129 a barrel in New York for the first time after billionaire hedge-fund manager Boone Pickens said oil will reach $150 a barrel this year because supply isn't keeping up with demand.
Producers are "runnin...
DATE: May 21, 2008
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Aspiring film-makers between the ages of seven and 16 will have the opportunity to take advantage of a number of film production camps being run this summer by the Bermuda International Film Festival.
The camps, which will be taught by instructors Ka...
DATE: May 21, 2008
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Bermuda-based MF Global Ltd., the world's largest broker of exchange-traded derivatives, reported a $71.1 million loss after a futures-trading scandal and said it would sell JC Flowers & Co. as much as $300 million in equity to...
DATE: May 21, 2008
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