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The Schmooze Dominique Strauss-Kahn Sues Over ‘DSK’ Sex Club
Getty Images The former head of the International Monetary Fund Dominique Strauss-Kahn plans a legal challenge to a Belgian sex club set to bear his initials “DSK”. The “DSKlub” opens on Wednesday evening and, according to Belgian media, will employ six women and a transsexual and is the invention of Dominique Alderweireld, generally known as…
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Fast Forward British Actor Bob Hoskins Dies at 71 Following Bout of Pneumonia
British actor Bob Hoskins, whose roles ranged from London gangsters to FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover and who starred opposite a cast of cartoon characters in “Who Framed Roger Rabbit”, has died after a bout of pneumonia, his publicist said on Wednesday. He was 71. A statement issued on behalf of his wife Linda and…
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Fast Forward David Geffen Wants To Buy Los Angeles Clippers From Donald Sterling
Billionaire media executive David Geffen is interested in buying the Los Angeles Clippers basketball team, according to a person with knowledge of Geffen’s thinking, following a decision by National Basketball Association commissioner Adam Silver to ban Clipper owner Donald Sterling for life. Silver said he would urge other NBA team owners to force Sterling to…
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Music Basketball World Unites in Cheering Ban of Donald Sterling
The basketball world was united in their support for NBA Commissioner Adam Silver following his decision to ban Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling for life and fine him $2.5 million for racist comments. Past and present players and other team owners all voiced their approval after Silver effectively booted Sterling out of the game,…
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Fast Forward With Peace Talks Dead, Right-Wing Turns to Talk of Annexation
With Middle East peace talks frozen and expectations of a negotiated deal at an all-time low, a growing number of Israeli politicians believe it is time for the government to set the nation’s own borders unilaterally. Some seek the annexation of most of the occupied West Bank, others say only the big Jewish settlement blocs…
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Fast Forward Wounded Ukraine Jewish Mayor Stable in Israel After Assassination Try
The mayor of eastern Ukraine’s biggest city was in a stable condition on Tuesday in a hospital in Israel, where he was flown after being wounded in the highest-profile assassination attempt in the standoff between Kiev and Moscow. Gennady Kernes, one of Ukraine’s most prominent Jewish politicians, was shot in the back on Monday in…
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Fast Forward Israel Razes West Bank Mosque and Palestinian Homes as Peace Talks Expire
Israeli forces demolished several structures, including a mosque, in a Palestinian village on Tuesday, the day a deadline for a deal in now-frozen peace talks expired. A Reuters correspondent saw several hundred soldiers deployed in Khirbet al-Taweel, in the occupied West Bank, around daybreak. They guarded six bulldozers that reduced to rubble buildings that were…
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Fast Forward Jewish Mayor Shot in Ukraine Spurned Pro-Russia Separatists
The mayor of Ukraine’s second biggest city was shot in the back on Monday, the highest profile assassination attempt in eastern Ukraine since a standoff between Moscow and Kiev began two months ago. Gennady Kernes underwent two hours of surgery after the attack in Kharkiv, one eastern city where police have managed to dislodge pro-Moscow…
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