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Incoming, chain-smoking House speaker is ‘Mad’ man

It was a scene straight out of “Mad Men” – chain-smoking Don Draper denouncing “addictive” cigarettes after his ad agency lost a big tobacco account. Except it was Rep. John Boehner – speaker of the House-in-waiting – on Election Night, enthusiastically ripping into the city that made him what he is.

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Incoming BP CEO: Time for ‘scaleback’ in cleanup (AP)

File - In this June 16, 2010 file photo, BP Chief Executive Officer Tony Hayward, left, and BP Managing Director Bob Dudley arrive with other BP executives at the White House in Washington DC. The appointment of American oilman Robert Dudley to replace luckless Briton Tony Hayward as CEO is the latest milestone in the waning Britishness of the company once known as British Petroleum. (AP Photo / Susan Walsh, file)AP – BP’s incoming CEO says it’s time to scale back the massive effort to clean up the oil spill, but adds that the commitment to make things right is the same as ever.


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Clinton to meet with Uruguay’s incoming president (AP)

Uruguay's President-elect Jose Mujica, right, waves to supporters accompanied by Ana Olivera, left, candidate for mayor of Montevideo for Mujica's party, the Frente Amplio coalition in downtown Montevideo, Friday, Feb. 26, 2010. (AP Photo/Matilde Campodonico)AP – Troops from Uruguay are regularly among U.N. peacekeeping forces deployed around the world, and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is hoping to persuade that country’s new president to continue the support.


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