Archive for August, 2011
Boone’s inning goes to ‘Ell’ in 9-5 loss
Even when he’s off his game, Josh Beckett can still beat the Yankees. The Bombers had their best performance of the season against the Red Sox ace, but Phil Hughes and the Yankees’ bullpen couldn’t make those runs stand up as Boston pulled off a 9-5 win to give them a split of the first two games of the three-game series at Fenway Park.
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Obama yields to Boehner’s Sept. 8 speech timing (AP)
AP – In a retreat after an hours-long test of wills Wednesday, President Barack Obama agreed to deliver an address on jobs and the economy to a joint session of Congress on Sept. 8, yielding to House Speaker John Boehner, who had balked at Obama’s request for a Sept. 7 speech.
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Obama caves to Boehner’s wishes on speech
President Obama thumbed his nose at GOPers by announcing plans for a major economic speech next Wednesday – at the same time as a scheduled Republican debate.
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Obama bows to Boehner; jobs speech will be Sept. 8 (AP)
AP – In a retreat after an hours-long test of wills Wednesday, President Barack Obama agreed to deliver an address on jobs and the economy to a joint session of Congress on Sept. 8, yielding to House Speaker John Boehner, who had balked at Obama’s request for a Sept. 7 speech.
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Logger cuts off toes after trailer falls, pins foot
Jon Hutt was doing logging work all alone in a remote Colorado forest when his six-ton trailer fell onto his right foot.
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WikiLeaks: Breach has exposed unredacted US cables (AP)
AP – Anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks says that its massive archive of unredacted U.S. State Department cables has been exposed in a security breach, and blamed a British newspaper.
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Khadafy’s sons at odds over surrender
One of Moammar Khadafy’s sons said Wednesday that his father is ready to surrender and hand power to the Libyan rebels. Another son then vowed he and their father would never be taken alive.
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