AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Lance Armstrong's lawyers say the cyclist will talk more about drug use in the sport, just likely not to the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency that led the effort to strip him of his Tour de France titles.In a testy exchange of letters and statements revealing the gulf between the two sides, USADA urged Armstrong to testify under oath to help "clean up cycling."Armstrong's attorneys responded...
Can sanctions deter North Korea?
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The Woman Who Is Making Chicago Greener
Label: BusinessPhotograph by Roger Deckker for Bloomberg BusinessweekStudio Gang Architects—run by Jeanne Gang, 48, and her husband, Mark Schendel—moved into the gritty Chicago neighborhood of Wicker Park in 2002. Initially, they shared their floor, above an Aldo shoe store, with a personal injury lawyer, a communist bookstore, and a poetry group. As these neighbors moved on and Gang’s reputation grew—she won a...
Media Advisory: Liberals to Elect New Premier Amid Unprecedented Protest
Label: WorldTORONTO, ONTARIO–(Marketwire – Jan 26, 2013) – Whoever is elected to be the new Premier of Ontario will have to face the largest protest of the party”s eight years in government.“The Liberals have tried to pretend that their only opposition is from school teachers, but nothing could be further from the truth. Saturday”s rally will be as broad and diverse as the province,” said OFL President Sid Ryan....
Wall Street Week Ahead: Bears hibernate as stocks near record highs
Label: WorldNEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks have been on a tear in January, moving major indexes within striking distance of all-time highs. The bearish case is a difficult one to make right now. Earnings have exceeded expectations, the housing and labor markets have strengthened, lawmakers in Washington no longer seem to be the roadblock that they were for most of 2012, and money has returned to stock...
Jan
25
Voice of Te'o prankster? Couric plays voicemails
Label: TechnologyNEW YORK (AP) — The person Manti Te'o says was pretending to be his online girlfriend told the Notre Dame linebacker "I love you" in voicemails that were played during his interview with Katie Couric.Taped earlier this week and broadcast Thursday, the hour-long talk show featured three voicemails that Te'o claims were left for him last year. Te'o said they were from the person he believed to be Lennay...
Cantor CEO: 'Off the fiscal cliff we go'
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Damon ‘hijacks’ Kimmel’s ABC show
Label: HealthNEW YORK (AP) — Matt Damon had his revenge.The butt of a long-running joke on ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” the actor opened Thursday night’s show as a kidnapper who tied Kimmel to a chair with duct tape and gagged him with his own tie.“There’s a new host in town and his initials are M.D.,” Damon said. “That’s right, the doctor is in.”For years, Kimmel has joked at the end of his show that he ran out...
Current account changes ‘needed’
Label: Business25 January 2013 Last updated at 02:52 ETFurther significant changes are needed in the market for personal current accounts, the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has said.The OFT has been reviewing the way the UK’s banks run these accounts, because of concerns over competition and a lack of focus on customers’ needs.Despite improvements since its last review in 2008, it said consumers still lacked confidence...
Stock index futures signal mixed Wall Street open
Label: WorldLONDON (Reuters) - Stock futures pointed to a mixed open on Wall Street on Friday, with futures for the S&P 500 rising 0.2 percent, the Dow Jones futures down 0.2 percent and the Nasdaq 100 futures up 0.3 percent. Apple stepped up audits of working conditions at major suppliers last year, discovering multiple cases of underage workers, discrimination and wage problems. ...
Jan
24
NCAA announces problems with Miami investigation
Label: TechnologyCORAL GABLES, Fla. (AP) — The NCAA's probe of Miami's athletic compliance practices is ramping up yet again.Only this time, the Hurricanes aren't exactly the subject of the inquiry.In a bizarre twist, it's college sports' governing body itself that is being investigated after NCAA President Mark Emmert acknowledged on Wednesday "a very severe issue of improper conduct" by former investigators working...
Benghazi blame-game is useless
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Broadway’s “Spider-Man” producers, Taymor, near settlement, again
Label: HealthNEW YORK (Reuters) – The producers of “Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark” and Julie Taymor, the musical’s ousted director, are once again ready to settle their long-running court case, a court filing showed on Wednesday.“We anticipate notifying the Court within the next week that a final settlement agreement has been executed,” attorney Charles T. Spada, who represents Taymor, wrote in a January 22 letter...
Europe Groans at Cameron’s Talk of an EU Exit
Label: BusinessViewed from across the English Channel, Prime Minister David Cameron’s call Wednesday for a referendum on British membership in the European Union was either a pretty bad idea—or a downright dangerous one.EU leaders accused Cameron of pandering to British euroskeptics and warned that uncertainty about London’s commitment would hurt Britain as well as other bloc members. He “is playing a dangerous...
Stock futures signal losses; all eyes on Apple
Label: WorldPARIS (Reuters) - Stock index futures pointed to a lower open on Wall Street on Thursday, with futures for the S&P 500 down 0.22 percent, Dow Jones futures up 0.02 percent and Nasdaq 100 futures down 1.3 percent at 1014 GMT. Shares of Apple Inc will be in the spotlight after the world's biggest tech company missed Wall Street's revenue forecast for the third straight quarter after...
Jan
23
Williams loses Stephens; Azarenka into semis
Label: TechnologyMELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Serena Williams was only thinking out loud when she muttered that this Australian Open had been "the worst two weeks."Not long after a courtside microphone picked up those comments during her quarterfinal with 19-year-old American Sloane Stephens, things got a whole lot worse.Stephens outplayed Williams, whose movement and serves had been slowed by a back injury, and beat...
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