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Lying to the world about the Guantanamo inmates being huge Fifty Shades of Grey fans is one of the least disturbing things to happen at the prison, but it still isn’t cool. On Sunday defense attorney James Connell said he suspected military commanders told members of Congress about the prisoners’ passion for the smutty novel as “a joke or some kind of disinformation.” His client, Ammar al-Baluchi, says the next night guards put the book in his cell. “He says, ‘No thank you.’ He does not want the book,” said Connell, whose client gave him the book. “It’s in my safe and as soon as I am able I will return it to Joint Task Force Guantanamo.” Connell said of the apparent taunting, “If this is a practical joke it has gone too far.” 

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His campaign website covers Corzine’s face.

via POLITICO – TOP Stories http://www.politico.com/story/2013/08/cory-booker-95785.html

The percentage of newborns who are circumcised in the United States declined to 58.3 percent in 2010 from 64.5 percent in 1979, according to the National Center for Health Statistics.

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The visionary force who helped launch the “British Invasion” by introducing America to a then-little-known band called The Beatles died in his sleep Wednesday in New York City, said his publicist. He was 95.

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Wall Street IPO-tweet-stakes have begun.
Banks already are lining up to score the plum assignment of leading Twitter’s hotly anticipated public offering, The Post has learned. The $10 billion social-messaging platform has held informal talks with Wall Street firms — the first step toward an IPO that could come in…

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Greenblatt prompts a political firestorm as GOP outcry and questions about what NBCU’s Steve Burke knew tarnish a Clinton miniseries that insiders now predict simply will disappear.

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An outside review of Bloomberg’s data compliance and news reporting revealed that the company didn’t curtail reporters’ access to subscriber data two years ago due to internal “misunderstandings.”

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“Societies have to integrate,” the media mogul said. “Muslims find it hardest.”

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He says she can “rehabilitate herself” by running for Senate in Alaska in 2014.

via POLITICO – TOP Stories http://www.politico.com/story/2013/08/bill-kristol-sarah-palin-senate-run-95660.html