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Archive for April 18th, 2006
Tuesday, April 18, 2006 Quick Hits for Tuesday! Yum! By Steve Sebelius It may be cold in our office here in the nondescript industrial building near McCarran International Airport, but in the oven, it's hot! Hot enough to produce a few Quick Hits, that is. Here you go:
• So a roving gang of about 15 youths beat up a guy outside a hotel and Metro Police [...]
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Tuesday, April 18, 2006 Media: Don't blow your job By Steve Sebelius You mean you can't say "blow job" on television?
What the hell is this world coming to, anyway?
Our friend and colleague Erin Neff reported in her column today (we'd link, but the Stephens Media Group's IT department cannot make the Internet work today) that she was censored after her appearance on Nevada Week in [...]
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Tuesday, April 18, 2006 Oil pushes through another psychological barrier By Ian Mylchreest Oil hit $70 a day on world markets, reports USA Today. Gas is getting near $3 a gallon at the pump here and it's even worse in California.
And the summer driving season hasn't really started! OPEC is saying that world demand will weaken.
They would say that, wouldn't they? They are trying to discourage cheating among members [...]
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Tuesday, April 18, 2006 A meal for the rich and powerful By Ian Mylchreest And from the social pages, comes word that the personal chef of Microsoft Chief Software Architect and the world's richest man, Bill Gates is preparing a feast for a king tonight when Chinese President Hu Jintao dines at his Seattle-area home, reports the Seattle Times. The rich are meeting the powerful as Hu tours the West Coast [...]
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Tuesday, April 18, 2006 Wall Street looks to the Hollywood Stock Exchange By Ian Mylchreest The wisdom of crowds, especially as demonstrated through the market, has come back into vogue in recent years. And Hollywood has its own little piece of the action, reports TheStreet.com.
Bond traders Cantor Fitzgerald, which also has a subsidiary selling hand-held gaming devices to Nevada casinos, created the Hollywood Stock Exchange where "members" who sign up automatically [...]
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