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/ 31 January 2006
”The eyes are the window of the soul.” For New York’s partying singles, that’s the new credo for a good time and possibly a new partner. In a dimly-lit Manhattan bar, with soft music filling the background, 60 men and women sit in pairs gazing intently and silently into each other’s eyes for a long, quiet three minutes, before switching to the next person.
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/ 30 January 2006
Nam June Paik, the avant-garde composer who was credited with being the inventor of video art, has died. He was 74. Paik played a pivotal role in using video as a form of artistic expression. A member of the Fluxus art movement, Paik combined the use of music, video images and sculptures.
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/ 30 January 2006
Nobody ever hangs on long enough to beat Tiger Woods. Some guys peel off early, some in the middle of a round, and a tough few, like Jose Maria Olazabal at the Buick Invitational, only when their fingernails are pulled all the way back. But they all let go of Tiger’s tail, eventually.
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/ 30 January 2006
Tiger Woods made simple pars to win a three-way play-off against Australian rookie Nathan Green and two-time Masters champion Jose Maria Olazabal for the Buick Invitational title on Sunday. Olazabal missed a four-foot par putt on the second extra hole to hand Woods a victory that was only easy at the end.
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/ 30 January 2006
Capote star Philip Seymour Hoffman, Reese Witherspoon and the drama Crash stole top honours at Sunday’s Screen Actors’ Guild Awards, dealing a blow to Oscar favourite Brokeback Mountain. Witherspoon won best actress for her role as singer June Carter Cash in Walk the Line, while Hoffman was named best actor for his portrayal of United States author Truman Capote.
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/ 27 January 2006
After having posted multibillion-dollar losses and announced plans to lay off thousands of workers this week, General Motors and the Ford Motor Company have said they are on the road to recovery. Neither, however, would forecast how long it would take to return their struggling North American units to profitability.
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/ 27 January 2006
The diplomatic "quartet" seeking Middle East peace on Thursday urged the militant group Hamas, shock winners in the Palestinian elections, to renounce violence and accept Israel’s right to exist. Without naming Hamas, the quartet reiterated its view "that there is a fundamental contradiction between armed group and militia activities and the building of a democratic state.
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/ 26 January 2006
Betty Berzon, a psychotherapist and author who championed gay rights after struggling for more than half her life with her own sexuality, has died. She was 78. Berzon died at her San Fernando Valley home early on Tuesday, said her long-time partner Teresa DeCrescenzo. Berzon had battled breast cancer for many years, she said.
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/ 26 January 2006
The cause of United States actor Chris Penn’s death remained undetermined on Thursday after an autopsy, and the coroner’s office has ordered blood toxicology tests. Penn, the brother of Academy Award-winning actor Sean Penn and musician Michael, was found dead on Tuesday in his Santa Monica condominium.
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/ 26 January 2006
When Fayard Nicholas danced, his body knew instinctively what to do — whether it was tap, ballet or his signature, high-in-the-air full split. Teamed with his brother, Harold, Nicholas moved with a natural grace and athleticism that inspired generations of dancers, from Fred Astaire to Maurice and Gregory Hines to Savion Glover.
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/ 25 January 2006
Steve Jobs, the man who gave the world Apple computers and iPods, is poised to take a seat of power in Walt Disney Company’s magic kingdom. Apple-founder Jobs will get a spot on the Disney board of directors as part of a deal announced on Tuesday by Disney to buy Pixar Animation for ,4-billion.
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/ 24 January 2006
Millions of United States BlackBerry users can now turn their attention back to a federal court where the fate of the popular wireless e-mail device may be decided.
After the Supreme Court chose on Monday not to intervene in the case, the resolution of the long-running battle over patents for the handheld device is up to a district judge.
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/ 23 January 2006
Brooding American method actor Anthony Franciosa, who was once married to Oscar-winning screen star Shelley Winters, has died, just five days after his famous ex-wife, his publicist said on Friday. Franciosa, who was 77, died on Thursday in a hospital in Los Angeles.
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/ 23 January 2006
A comedy stunt in which scores of people rode the New York subway in their underwear ended with the arrest of eight panty-proud participants, police said on Monday. A police spokesperson said all had been released after being issued summonses for ”disorderly conduct”.
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/ 23 January 2006
Ford Motor Company workers faced bleak prospects on Monday as the United States auto giant was to announce huge job cuts and plant closures in a bid to counter its loss of market share to Asian rivals. News reports said up to 29 000 job cuts and 10 plant closures could be announced.
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/ 22 January 2006
Apple’s grand switchover to Intel processors was originally planned for summer 2006. Yet Apple CEO Steve Jobs took the opportunity at the recent MacWorld Expo in San Francisco to announce that the iMac would come equipped with dual-core processors from Intel effective immediately.
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/ 21 January 2006
Oil prices charged toward a barrel on Friday in a rally that mainly reflected fears of a possible loss of supply from Iran, which is in a diplomatic stand-off with the West over its nuclear ambitions. Labour unrest in oil-rich Nigeria and new threats from al-Qaeda contributed to traders’ jitters.
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/ 21 January 2006
A legal stand-off between the United States Justice Department and internet search giant Google has added fuel to an already heated debate over the government’s right of access to potentially personal data. Google has decided to oppose a government subpoena to turn over records on millions of its users’ search queries.
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/ 20 January 2006
A man was found dead on a New York subway car near the start of the morning rush hour, raising the possibility that his lifeless body rode the train for several hours overnight, authorities said. The body of Eugene Reilly (64), a United States Postal Service employee, was discovered on Thursday.
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/ 20 January 2006
Wilson Pickett, the soul pioneer best known for the fiery hits Mustang Sally and In The Midnight Hour, died of a heart attack in a Reston, Virginia, hospital, his management company said. He was 64. Pickett died on Thursday after having suffered from health problems for the past year, said Chris Tuthill of the management company Talent Source.
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/ 19 January 2006
Media and entertainment giant Walt Disney Company is in discussions to buy Pixar animation studios in a transaction that would make Pixar chairperson and CEO Steve Jobs the largest individual shareholder in Disney, The Wall Street Journal reports on Friday.
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/ 19 January 2006
A United States mission to resolve a territorial dispute between Ethiopia and Eritrea will be shortened because Eritrean authorities refused to accept the envoy, the US State Department said on Wednesday. ”They are not facilitating her travel to Eritrea so she is not going to the boundary region” on the Eritrean side, said department spokesperson Julie Reside.
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/ 19 January 2006
Amazon.com plans to broadcast on its website an original show hosted by Bill Maher and featuring performers and authors touting new releases — which will be for sale at the online retailer. The webcast series is the first offering in what the company says is a plan to add more original programming to its website.
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/ 18 January 2006
Marrying for money, it turns out, works. A study by an Ohio State University researcher shows that a person who marries — and stays married — accumulates nearly twice as much personal wealth as a person who is single or divorced. And for those who divorce, it’s a bit more expensive than giving up half of everything they own.
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/ 18 January 2006
Colonel Edward Hall, who as director of the Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missile programme helped develop America’s solid-fuel rocket technology, putting the United States decades ahead of other superpowers, has died. He was 91. Hall died on Sunday at Torrance Memorial Medical Centre, said his daughter, Sheila Hall. The cause of death was not immediately known.
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/ 18 January 2006
Well before President George Bush said in 2003 that Iraq was buying uranium from Niger, a high-level state department intelligence assessment deemed the deal ”unlikely” for several reasons, The New York Times said on Wednesday.
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/ 18 January 2006
Americans are getting used to the idea of being led by a female president, with political observers dreaming of a showdown between Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Senator Hillary Clinton in the 2008 election. If polls and a television show about a woman president are any indication, Americans appear willing to elect their first woman president.
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/ 17 January 2006
Leonard South, the camera operator on such classic Alfred Hitchcock films as The Birds and North by Northwest, has died. He was 92. South died on January 6 of pneumonia in a Northridge nursing home, said his son, film editor Leonard South II. The elder South had Alzheimer’s disease.
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/ 13 January 2006
The Beach Boys are suing two men for -million, claiming they stole a trove of photos, recordings and other band memorabilia from a warehouse with the intent of putting the items up for auction. The lawsuit names three defendants — Allan Gaba, the owner of a North Hollywood, California warehouse, his friend, Roy Sciacca, and Gem Systems, a company Sciacca was involved in.
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/ 12 January 2006
After a seven-year journey, United States space probe Stardust is scheduled to deliver to Earth on Sunday samples of rare dust it has collected from stars and comets that scientists believe could offer vital clues about the solar system’s origins.
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/ 11 January 2006
Donald Trump will sponsor a one million-dollar golf showdown next May in the Grenadines, a 100-player event open to both men and women who are not members of the most elite global golf tours. Trump announced the Trump Million Dollar Invitational in new York on Tuesday, unveiling plans for the richest tournament ever staged outside the PGA and LPGA tours.
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/ 10 January 2006
Silky-smooth jazz and soul crooner Lou Rawls, famed for his 1976 hit You’ll Never Find (Another Love Like Mine), died of lung and brain cancer on Friday at the age of 72. The Grammy Award-winning singer died at Los Angeles’s Cedars-Sinai hospital early on Friday, his publicist, Paul Shefrin, said.