Articles Archive for December 2008
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California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger declared fiscal emergency Monday in response to the state’s deteriorating finances and called lawmakers into a special session to address California‘s $11.2 billion deficit, the LA Times reported.
Schwarzenegger, a Republican, wants legislators to raise taxes and cut spending to narrow the gap that is projected to swell to $28 billion over the next 18 months. He invoked powers granted him in 2004 to declare a fiscal crisis, which gives the Legislature 45 days to plug the shortfall. If they fail to find a solution in that …
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Lance Armstrong confirmed Monday that he would ride in the 2009 Tour de France.
The seven-time Tour champion made the announcement on his Web site from Tenerife in the Canary Islands, where he is training with Team Astana.
According to Washington Post, Armstrong acknowledged his body might not perform at the same level it did when he last won the Tour in 2005.
“If you’ve been away for three or four years, it would be silly for anybody to think I could pick up where I left off,” Armstrong said in a telephone …
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Tina Fey appears on the cover of the January, 2009 issue of Vanity Fair magazine.
The former cast of Saturday Night Live discusses marriage, motherhood, 30 Rock and Sarah Palin. The mag hits newsstands December 9.
In the interview, she reveals how she got her signature facial scar.
“It was in, like, the front yard of her house, and somebody who just came up, and she just thought somebody marked her with a pen,” Fey’s husband, Jeff Richmond, says.
“When I was 18 and registering to vote, my mom’s only instruction was ‘You just …
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Mayor Larry Langford of Birmingham, Alabama was arrested on Monday on federal criminal charges, according to Birmingham News.
Federal prosecutors said Langford, Montgomery investment banker Bill Blount and lobbyist Al LaPierre were charged in the 101-count indictment released Monday. The charges also include money laundering and filing false tax returns.
A grand jury has been investigating the county’s bond deals for several months, the Birmingham News said.
Langford is accused of receiving $230,000 in bribes from Blount, some of them routed through LaPierre, to influence the bond deals while Langford was president of …
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Barack Obama on Monday announced ex-rival Hillary Clinton as his secretary of state and said that President George W. Bush’s defense secretary, Robert Gates, is staying on.
The line-up of cabinet members that stood behind Obama at his Chicago news conference is a high-powered and experienced crew, topped by Clinton.
Obama respects the New York senator’s work ethic, his aides have said. He also believes the former first lady’s star power would boost his efforts to improve America’s global standing.
Reginald Dale, a scholar at the Center for Strategic and International Studies was …
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November 30 was the premier of Britney Spears For The Record. In this documentary, Britney sets the record straight and reflects on hardships of the past few years.
The documentary was a shocking but honest one. According to mtv uk, Spears talks about how the break-up from Justin Timberlake left her lost and confused.




