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PresidentObama, with Speaker Nancy Pelosi (Calif.), greets House Democrats at their retreat. He praised those who were willing to "make tough choices sometimes when they're unpopular." (Melina Mara/the Washington Post) By Perry Bacon Jr. With ...http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2010/01/14/ST2010011404760.htBy Pablo Martinez Monsivais, AP By Kathy Kiely, USA TODAY WASHINGTON — The Senate is on track for a major makeover as retirements and election defeats change the fa...

About golden globes awards, ricky gervais show, hosting

Coming Down Under ... funny man Ricky Gervais. Source: AP RICKY Gervais is on a roll, with the creator of The Office to host next week's Golden Globes on the back of his new film The Invention Of Lying. Now he is planning a world tour to take his ...http://www.heraldsun.com.au/entertainment/confidential/ricky-gervais-coming-to-aAs the funnyman's global domination continues, the comedy star has announced his first world tour. And it will rival shows by the world's biggest rock acts. Gervais said ...

About lindsay lohan sex tape, alleged sex tape, sex video

Lindsay Lohan has been rocked by rumours that an alleged 'sex tape' in which she reportedly features is being touted around Hollywood for a fee of £100000. According to US gossips, the alleged 47 second clip features a naked woman engaging in an 'adult ...http://www.metro.co.uk/showbiz/808971-waiter-trying-to-flog-100k-lindsay-lohan-sLindsay Lohan may be fearful that an old sex tape is about to surface on the internet, but she put up a brave front last night. The 23-year-old actress went bra-les...

About placement agents, calpers, $125 million, pension, public

Jan. 14 (Bloomberg) -- The California Public Employees' Retirement System, the largest US publicpension, said private investment firms paid at least $125 million to placement agents for help winning contracts to manage the fund's ...http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-01-14/calpers-says-middlemen-received-at-lSAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK, Jan 14 (Reuters) - Investment firms paid placement agents more than $125 million in fees to win business at Calpers, including nearly $59 million to a firm led by ...

About $1.7 billion, buy bare escentuals, acquire bare escentuals, shiseido, cosmetics

(Associated Press Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Shiseido to buy Bare Escentuals for $1.7 billionTOKYO (AP) _ Shiseido Co. said Friday it will buy San Francisco-based Bare Escentuals Inc. for $1.7 billion, a step forward in the Japanese cosmetic giant's ...http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/-ap-business-newsbrief-1051-pm-est-/2010/01/14/457Shiseido is to acquire Bare Escentuals, a US-based cosmetics group, in a $1.7bn deal that highlights the Japanese cosmetics group's ambition to expand its global pres...

About china’s ministry, december foreign investment, china’s foreign direct investment

BEIJING, Jan. 15 (Xinhua) -- Chinese shares closed higher at midday on Friday after the Ministry of Commerce (MOC) said the foreign direct investment (FDI) doubled in December from a year ago. The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index was up 0.50 percent, ...http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2010-01/15/content_12814287.htmJan. 15 (Bloomberg) -- Foreign direct investment in China more than doubled in December from a year earlier as the effects of the financial crisis fade. Investment rose 103 percen...

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A US Senate committee urged the Defense Department to take firmer steps to combat the threat of Islamic extremism within the ranks of the military. The US Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee called current procedures inadequate for ...http://www.kauz.com/news/national/81511987.htmlSenate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee leaders on Wednesday asked Defense Secretary Robert Gates to revise department policies to address Islamic extremism. ...http://www.govexec.c...

About sen. harry reid, senate majority leader harry reid, lieberman, nevada, obama

The White House recently announced that it will no longer use the saved or created barometer to measure the success of the stimulus package, but apparently it's back for one last hurrah. The White House is now claiming that the stimulus ...http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,583029,00.htmlPeriodically, an event, such as the arrest of Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. in July, has the pundits calling for a real discussion on race. But the calls for Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid to resi...

About najaf, people, iraqi city, baghdad, death, iraq city, killed

At least 15 people have been killed and 80 others injured in a series of bomb blasts in the Iraqi holy city of Najaf. Three explosive devices were detonated in two different places of the sacred city on Thursday. Two improvised explosive devices (IEDs) ...http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=116150&sectionid=351020201BAGHDAD, Jan. 14 (UPI) -- Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, his re-election prospects seriously damaged by a wave of suicide bombings in Baghdad that killed 400 people, is fightin...

About people, american red cross, donations, haiti earthquake relief efforts

New and easier ways to contribute have helped propel donations for Haiti earthquake relief efforts despite a weak economy, according to officials at a number of aid organizations, some of whom marveled at the volume of donations tweeted ...http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/14/AR2010011404663.New technology is making it easier than ever to donate to the disaster relief, but it's also making it easier than ever for you to become the victim of a scam. One of the most popu...