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Presumptive Democratic Presidential nominee Barack Obama is poised to name his running mate, according to The New York Times.
While the paper reports that Obama has yet to inform his prospective vice-president of the nod, the candidate’s focus is primarily on three men: Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine, Sen. Evan Bayh of Indiana and foreign policy expert [...]

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The United States’ vanquishing of Australia had been over for 45 minutes, the reporters’ questions were done, and still there were four Americans mesmerized in a silent corner of Wukesong Indoor Basketball Stadium.
Chris Paul slouched on the floor, flip-flops on his feet. LeBron James sipped a bottle of Coke. Carmelo Anthony peeled back the earphones [...]

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Usain Bolt spotted the TV cameraman, darted over and raised his index finger for millions of viewers to see.
“I am No. 1,” he said. “I am No. 1.”
His boast qualifies as an understatement.
.Wednesday night, when Bolt cemented his status as the world’s No. 1 sprinter, he also emerged as track’s Tiger Woods, Wayne Gretzky and [...]

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Dave Matthews stood in front of a sold out crowd on Tuesday night to pay tribute to his fellow bandmember and co-founder, LeRoi Moore, who died at the age of 46.
“It’s always easier to leave than be left,” Matthews said. “We appreciate you all being here.”
LeRoi Moore, the saxophonist for the Dave Matthews Band, died [...]

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A who’s who of female singers from every music genre are included in the upcoming single “Just Stand Up,” a charity song done in tandem with the forthcoming multi-network television special “Stand Up to Cancer.”
The tune features Mariah Carey, Beyonce, Mary J. Blige, Rihanna, Fergie, Sheryl Crow, Miley Cyrus, Melissa Etheridge, Ashanti, Natasha Bedingfield, [...]

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While Jay-Z topped Forbes.com’s inaugural Hip-Hop Cash Kings list of the top-earning people in the business last year, in 2008 he cedes the throne to Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, who raked in $150 million over the past 12 months–almost twice what Jay-Z made.
Fitty banked $100 million after taxes on one deal alone when his [...]

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Fox has announced that “The Wendy Williams Show” will follow up its six-week, four-market trial run with a nationwide launch via the Fox Television Stations group in mid-2009.
The daily one-hour talk show, distributed by Debmar-Mercury, will end its preview run Friday in the cities of Los Angeles (KTTV), New York (WNYW), Dallas (KDFW) and [...]

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A mental patient died after workers at a North Carolina hospital left him in a chair for 22 hours without feeding him or helping him use the bathroom, said federal officials who have threatened to cut off the facility’s funding.
The state sent a team Tuesday to help Cherry Hospital in Goldsboro draft new procedures to [...]

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