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| WEDNESDAY • AUGUST 20, 2008 |
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 SEN. JOE LIEBERMAN TO SPEAK AT GOP CONVENTION: Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman, the Democratic Party’s vice presidential candidate in 2000 and now an independent who is one of John McCain’s strongest supporters, will speak at the Republican National Convention, an official said. Lieberman will deliver a speech when Republicans gather in St. Paul, Minn., to nominate McCain for president, a party official told The Associated Press on Wednesday. The official requested anonymity because a formal announcement had yet to be made.
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 FIVE AMERICANS HELD AS CHINA STEPS UP SCRUTINY: Five American blogger-activists and a foreign artist have been detained in Beijing as the government intensifies a crackdown on pro-Tibetan protests in the home stretch of the Olympics, rights groups said on Wednesday.
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 RICE SIGNS MISSILE DEFENSE DEAL WITH POLAND: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and her Polish counterpart signed a deal Wednesday to build a U.S. missile defense base in Poland, an agreement that prompted an infuriated Russia to warn of a possible attack against the former Soviet satellite.
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 BARACK OBAMA’S ‘LOST’ BROTHER FOUND IN KENYA: The Italian edition of Vanity Fair said that it had found George Hussein Onyango Obama living in a hut in a ramshackle town of Huruma on the outskirts of Nairobi.
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HOMELESS GET CLEANED UP WITH FREE HAIRCUTS FOR DNC: The City of Denver has been working to make sure everything is in tip-top shape for all the visitors coming to town for the Democratic National Convention, and now a local salon is helping in that effort. It seems to be a first — don’t move the homeless, clean them up. That was the work of one salon and the recipients didn’t even seem to care if the Democrats were coming to town. Sly’s Salon at 17th and Grant was offering free haircuts to the homeless Monday.
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 FAY DRENCHES PARTS OF FLORIDA; 8,000 HOMES FLOODED: Authorities are using airboats to rescue people from their homes Wednesday in St. Lucie County after Tropical Storm Fay dumped heavy rain and caused flooding in southeast Florida. As many as 8,000 homes in two low-lying areas may have been damaged, the St. Lucie County Public Safety Department said. “We’ve never seen anything like this,” Sheriff Ken Mascara said, adding that officials had expected the storm to follow a path from Fort Myers on the west coast through St. Augustine on the northeast.
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 LBN-HEALTH INSIDER: *** A new analysis of government data is the first to link low-level arsenic exposure, possibly from drinking water, with type 2 diabetes, researchers say. *** A growing number of women in Hollywood are abusing Adderall in their quest to be thin. But along with the rapid weight loss, they may be gaining a dangerous addiction.
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 LBN-OLYMPIC INSIDER: ***Sanya Richards settles for bronze in 400m. *** Sylvia Fowles and the U.S. women’s basketball team were too big for South Korea to handle. Fowles scored 26 points and grabbed 14 rebounds to lead the U.S. to a 104-60 rout of South Korea on Tuesday night and advance to the semifinals of women’s basketball. *** You better eat your . . . Frosted Flakes? Olympic legend Michael Phelps will appear on boxes of the Kellogg’s brand sugar cereal, drawing sharp criticism from health experts worried about the message he’ll be sending to children across America.
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LBN-COMMENTARY By MARK JOSEPH: Barack Obama has given you a different kind of gift. He’s a foreigner. With all due respect to Hawaii, where I love to vacation, growing up in an apartment in Honolulu, not to mention Southeast Asia, ain’t the heartland of America. That’s why he talks about the price of arugula at Whole Foods, thinks there are 57 states, forgets to salute the flag and has a problem with the flag pin. It’s not that he’s not patriotic, it’s that he’s more of a citizen of the world than of America. To reply directly to Mark Joseph, email LBNElert@TimeWire.net.
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LBN-COMMENTARY By ED RUBENSTEIN: In the long-run immigration policy is as important to the U.S. economy as fiscal policy, the housing market, interest rates, and inflation. You would think that the federal government would collect and publish timely statistics on the quality, education, employment, and incomes of immigrants living in the U.S. Think again. Such data is either not collected or is based on small scale surveys subject to large errors.
Bottom line: the government provides plenty of data but little information on which to evaluate the success or failure of immigration policy.
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 LBN-NOTICED: ***Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi sharing burgers and chocolate cake over dinner with friends at M Café de Chaya in L.A. ***Lisa Kudrow nibbling on a salad while at business meeting at the SW Steakhouse in Las Vegas’ Wynn hotel. ***Joel Madden taking Nicole Richie and 8-month-old daughter Harlow to dinner at Downtown Disney’s Wolfgang Puck Grand Café in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. ***A healthy looking Patrick Swayze playing pool and drinking water at Rockit Bar & Grill in Chicago. ***Salma Hayek pampering herself with a Jurlique foot massage at the BBQ at Brett Ratner’s house in L.A. ***Michelle Branch picking up shampoo at the Green Hills Cosmetic Market in Nashville. ***Melissa Etheridge and her band dining at Shrine restaurant at Foxwoods Casino in Connecticut. ***Brian Austin Green getting a signed copy of Method Man’s new graphic novel at Comic-Con in San Diego. ***Mischa Barton hanging out backstage at the Oakley X Games bash at Key Club in Los Angeles. ***Cameron Diaz going blonder by getting highlights at the Neil George salon in Beverly Hills.
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HOLLYWOOD INSIDER: ***Tom Cruise has just attached himself to the comic book movie Sleeper. The film is about an operative whose fusion with an alien artifact makes him impervious to pain.
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MCCAIN TAKES LEAD OVER OBAMA: POLL: In a sharp turnaround, Republican John McCain has opened a 5-point lead on Democrat Barack Obama in the U.S. presidential race and is seen as a stronger manager of the economy, according to a Reuters/Zogby poll released on Wednesday.McCain leads Obama among likely U.S. voters by 46 percent to 41 percent, wiping out Obama’s solid 7-point advantage in July and taking his first lead in the monthly Reuters/Zogby poll.