The Diamondbacks And Large Contracts: Boon Or Bust?

Source: AZ Snakepit

As will be officially announced by the Diamondbacks later today, catcher Miguel Montero has signed the biggest contract in the history of the franchise. The deal, running through 2017, is reported to be for $60m, which breaks the ...
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Reese Witherspoon Baby Bumps Her Way to the Cannes Red Carpet!

Source: E! Online

Reese Witherspoon may have only had a small role in drama flick Mud, but that didn't stop the thesp from stealing the show at the flick's Cannes Film Festival premiere. The 36-year-old pregnant star hit the red carpet Satu ...
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Relief for Vie Lounge as court stays police order

Source: Mumbai Mirror

Shut since Wednesday, Juhu nightspot can now reopen; HC orders owners to appeal to Home Dept In a major reprieve for the sea-facing Vie Lounge and Deck at Juhu Tara Road, the Bombay High Court has stayed the police orde ...
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McManus books tells U.S. side of a 'Bridge Too Far'

Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Thanks to Cornelius Ryan's "A Bridge Too Far," many American readers and moviegoers have at least a passing acquaintance with the doomed effort by British paratroopers in September 1944 to seize a bridge across the Rhine at Arnhem, in the Netherland ...
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Manila names envoy to China amid row

Source: GulfToday.ae

MANILA: President Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino has appointed a career woman diplomat as the Philippine ambassador to China amid the festering dispute between the two countries over the Scarborough Shoal in the South China Se ...
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Census: 49% of US Lives in Households Receiving Gov't Benefits

Source: Big Government

The 49.1% of the population in a household that gets benefits is up from 30% in the early 1980s and 44.4% as recently as the third quarter of 2008. The increase in recent years is likely due in large part to ...
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Groupon starts refund program

Source: iStockAnalyst

CHICAGO, May 26 (UPI) -- U.S. online deal-making firm Groupon said subscribers had until July 6 to file for refunds prompted by a class-action lawsuit. The lawsuit claimed Groupon was not lawfully disclosing information o ...
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I went a touch too far, and now my boss won’t stop flirting. What to do?

Source: Bangor Daily News

I’ve worked for the past five years as a night security guard at a large indoor facility. Typically there are three of us on the overnight shift: the supervisor, “Charles,” with whom I’ve always had a cordial relationship, another guard, and ...
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New businesses include dental clinic, luxary exchange shop

Source: Northwest Florida Daily News

The early May opening of the Children’s Volunteer Health Network clinic represents only a small part of this non-profit organization’s story. “CVHN was founded in 2005 by a group that was attending a local church,” said Executive Director Zack Billi ...
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