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Al Jazeera completes deal to buy Current TV
Current TV, the small cable news channel that was co-founded by former vice president Al Gore, has been sold to Al Jazeera, the Qatar-based media company. The acquisition gives Al Jazeera, which is funded by the Qatar government, the opportunity to...
Tags: Eliot Spitzer, Qatar, Al Jazeera English (tv network), The New York Times, Current TV (tv network)
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Legal larceny by lawyers
What's the difference between a mosquito and a lawyer? One is a blood-sucking parasite. The other is an insect. I'm a lawyer, but I live out of state and haven't practiced law in recent years, so I am at this point an "inactive" member of the...
Tags: Career and Workplace, Occupy Wall Street, Crime, Law and Justice, Politics, Illegal Immigrants
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Mail Call - Jan. 15
“Responding to the callers in Mail Call about not having your meters read by the electric company, the number they gave, I called the number and all you get is a list of all power companies and their number, and you call those numbers and all you...Tags: Separation of Church and State, Justice System, Government, Death Penalty, Judges
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Crime & Punishment: Someone Else Tries to Exploit the Sandy Hook Tragedy For Money
New Britain Mayor Tim O'Brien chose Christmas Eve to quietly announce the cash-strapped city would use $100,000 from the mayor's legal-defense fund to hire a high-power PR firm to promote a bill that would fine the landlords of properties that rack up...
Tags: New London (New London, Connecticut), Holidays, Craigslist, Inc., Dannel P. Malloy , Pregnancy and Childbirth
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Museums in Detroit and D.C. display Obama-themed art
As the nation watches President Obama take the oath of office Monday for his second term, Americans may notice a more mature (and grayer) version of the hopeful candidate depicted in Shepard Fairey's ubiquitous 2008 campaign poster. Since then, Obama'...Tags: U.S. Congress, 2012 Democratic National Convention, Barack Obama, Washington, DC, Politics
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The unlikelihood of President Hillary
The votes have been cast, the count has been completed and we all know the winner of the presidential election. So now it's just a matter of letting the Electoral College meet to make the outcome official. Then we can get along with planning the...
Tags: George H.W. Bush, Mitt Romney, Elections, Joe Biden, United Nations
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Other voice: An inconvenient question
Al Gore, the former vice president and clean-air advocate, and his co-investors have sold liberal cable channel Current TV to Al Jazeera, the network bankrolled by the emir of Qatar. The sale exposes an apparent contradiction between Gore’s...Tags: The Wall Street Journal, Television, Satellite and Cable Service, Al Jazeera (tv network), Global Warming
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Sundance 2013: From Kutcher to Pussy Riot, five storylines to watch
The Sundance Film Festival can seem like a most indecipherable hybrid: It’s a movie-industry gathering, a wannabe Mardi Gras, a celebrity pit stop. It's also, of course, a place where some of the most memorable films of our time began their...
Tags: Ashton Kutcher, Occupy Wall Street, Celebrities, Sundance Film Festival, WikiLeaks
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Bright House Networks drops Current TV
The TV Guy - Orlando SentinelThe low-rated Current TV is off Bright House Networks after the announcement that the channel was being sold to Al Jazeera. “Our agreement with Current TV has been terminated and we will no longer be carrying the service,” Bright House... -
Al Jazeera in talks to buy Current TV
Current TV, the struggling news/talk channel co-founded by former Vice President Al Gore, is in advanced talks to sell itself to Al Jazeera, the Qatar-based cable news company, a person close to the stituation confirmed. An announcement regarding a sale...
Tags: Fox News Channel (tv network), Television, MSNBC (tv network), Satellite and Cable Service, Keith Olbermann
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It's official: Obama, Biden win second term
President Obama was declared the winner of the 2012 presidential election Friday in a special joint session of Congress, finally closing the book on the tumultuous and expensive campaign. Vice President Joe Biden, serving as president of the Senate,...
Tags: U.S. Congress, John G. Roberts, Jr., Justice System, Government, Crime, Law and Justice
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To fight fracking, what Pennsylvania needs is a masterpiece
Movies can have a tremendous impact on society, if they're skillfully made. "Triumph of the Will" was a stunning documentary that helped Adolf Hitler consolidate power. "An Inconvenient Truth," a documentary about former Vice President Al Gore's...
Tags: Petroleum Industry, Adam Sandler, Nuclear Power, Environmental Cleanup, Tom Corbett
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|Column| Chicago Tribune
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|Story| Aberdeen News
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Jan 4, 2013
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Jan 10, 2013
|Column| Allentown Morning Call
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