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MPAA launches website to promote legal access to movies, TV shows
Hollywood studios are employing a new tool in their efforts to fight piracy: persuasion. After waging an unsuccessful effort last year to introduce legislation that would crack down on websites offering illegal copies of movies and TV shows, studios are...Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Netflix Inc., Hulu, Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, Entertainment
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Will Dodd-Frank save (or stifle) capitalism?
WASHINGTON -- It's been five years since the onset of the financial crisis -- the rescue of Bear Stearns in March 2008 -- and we still don't know whether the financial system is safe. In a recent speech, Daniel Tarullo, the Federal Reserve's point man...
Tags: Finance, Federal Reserve, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Politics
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Bush was a lousy president
I am writing response to the letter writer who stated that the policy of forcing banks to give loans to people who could not afford them was pushed by Rep. Barney Frank and Sen. Chris Dodd ("Stop blaming Bush," May 1). The housing bubble burst in 2006-...Tags: Barney Frank, George W. Bush, Barack Obama
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It's time to stop blaming Bush
I am not a fan of former President George W. Bush, but I must comment on the hatchet job that was The Sun's editorial about the opening of the Bush library in Dallas ("Misoverestimating Bush," April 28). During the last two years of Mr. Bush's...
Tags: Barney Frank, George W. Bush, Politics, Unrest, Conflicts and War, International Military Interventions
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Obama Formally Taps Tom Wheeler as FCC Chairman
ReutersMay 01 (TheWrap.com) - President Obama on Wednesday formally tapped Tom Wheeler, managing director of Core Capital Partners, as the next chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. FCC Commissioner Mignon L. Clyburn will serve as interim...Tags: Television Industry, U.S. Senate, Net Neutrality, Politics, Computing and Information Technology Industry
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Baucus' exit drains hope for tax reform
This post has been updated, as indicated below. Six-term Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.), the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, announced Tuesday that he won't run for reelection in 2014. You may now kiss any hope of a sweeping tax reform bill...
Tags: Finance, Politics, Health Care Reform (2009), Max Baucus, Crime, Law and Justice
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The Political Transformation Of Joe Lieberman
Hartford CourantTalking to reporters in his driveway on a hot day in August 2000, Connecticut U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman beamed — he had just been chosen as the Democratic vice presidential candidate to Al Gore. "Miracles happen," the proud son of a Stamford liquor...Tags: Joe Lieberman, Monica Lewinsky, Manhattan (New York City), Human Interest, Politics
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DeStefano: 'You Leave When They Want You To Stay'
The Hartford CourantMayor John DeStefano, an outspoken political survivor and the longest-serving leader in the city's history, smiled Tuesday as he reflected on his 10 terms leading the Elm City and seemed at peace with his decision against trying to make it to 11. "You...Tags: Joe Lieberman, Human Interest, Parties and Movements, Politics, Stamford
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MPAA's Dodd names his No. 2; pirate gets five-year sentence
Motion Picture Assn. of America chief Chris Dodd has named a tech and telecom veteran as his No. 2. The former U.S. senator from Connecticut on Friday announced that Diane Strahan would be chief operating officer of the film industry trade group....Tags: Punishment, AOL LLC, Computing and Information Technology Industry, Court Preliminary, Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks
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Chronology of 2001 anthrax events
Sun-SentinelSept. 18: Envelopes containing letters and granular substances are sent to NBC News in New York and the New York Post. Both are mailed from Trenton, N.J. Sept. 22: Editorial page assistant at New York Post who opens letters to the editor notices...Tags: Television Industry, Manhattan (New York City), Politics, Medical Procedures and Tests, Swiss Confederation
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Time to break up the biggest Wall Street banks
TARP, the infamous Troubled Assets Relief Program that bailed out Wall Street in 2008, is finally over. The Treasury Department recently announced it will soon be completing the sale of the remaining shares it owns of the banks and of General Motors....
Tags: Finance, Federal Reserve, Politics, Sherrod Brown, Citigroup Incorporated
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Where The Paranoid And Delusional Network, The Truth Disappears
The Hartford CourantThe Facebook page in question links out to a thicket of medium-extremist sites. One is "Breaking Obama" which posted, after Thursday's presidential announcement on guns: "The Dictator Obama and Prime Minister Joe Biden just completed a massacre of The...Tags: Personal Weapon Control, Flu, Joe Biden, Politics, Interior Policy
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