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Berkshire Hathaway buys Media General newspapers – San Francisco Chronicle

May 18th, 2012 · No Comments

Berkshire Hathaway buys Media General newspapers – San Francisco Chronicle Boston.com Berkshire Hathaway buys Media General newspapersSan Francisco ChronicleBerkshire Hathaway Inc. agreed to pay $142 million for Media General Inc.'s newspapers, including the Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch, as Warren Buffett bets that community-focused publications will weather an advertising slump.Buffett Newspaper Stable Grows On Media General DealWall [...]

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Facebook’s Eduardo Saverin gives up citizenship: Shrewd tax move? – Los Angeles Times

May 12th, 2012 · No Comments

Facebook’s Eduardo Saverin gives up citizenship: Shrewd tax move? – Los Angeles Times ABC News (blog) Facebook's Eduardo Saverin gives up citizenship: Shrewd tax move?Los Angeles TimesEduardo Saverin, who now lives in Singapore, has given up his US citizenship. Tax experts say it's a shrewd move. Saverin, who was immortalized in the film “The Social [...]

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420 crackdown – fertilizer hampers Colorado grass – San Francisco Chronicle

April 21st, 2012 · No Comments

420 crackdown – fertilizer hampers Colorado grass – San Francisco Chronicle Christian Science Monitor 420 crackdown – fertilizer hampers Colorado grassSan Francisco ChronicleThe number 420 has been associated with marijuana use for decades, though its origins are murky. Its use as code for marijuana spread among California pot users in the 1960s and broadened nationwideamong [...]

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Source: Running back Brandon Jacobs agrees to deal with San Francisco 49ers – San Jose Mercury News

March 29th, 2012 · No Comments

Source: Running back Brandon Jacobs agrees to deal with San Francisco 49ers – San Jose Mercury News New York Daily News Source: Running back Brandon Jacobs agrees to deal with San Francisco 49ersSan Jose Mercury NewsBy Cam Inman cinman@bayareanewsgroup.com Power running back Brandon Jacobs is the latest addition to a reworked 49ers roster, having agreed [...]

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Drivers easily adjust to Bay Bridge lane changes – San Francisco Chronicle

February 21st, 2012 · No Comments

Drivers easily adjust to Bay Bridge lane changes – San Francisco Chronicle The San Francisco Appeal Drivers easily adjust to Bay Bridge lane changesSan Francisco ChronicleTraffic moved smoothly all day up the Bay Bridge incline and into San Francisco after the Bay Bridge reopened early Sunday night. Monday February 20, 2012 Bay Area drivers had [...]

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Stephen Colbert’s show cancels taping this week [UPDATED] – Washington Post blog

February 17th, 2012 · No Comments

Politico Stephen Colbert's show cancels taping this week [UPDATED]Washington Post (blog)By Lisa de Moraes Colbert appears during the "Been There: Won That: The Returnification of the American-Do Troopscapeon" special of The Colbert Report on September 8, 2010. (Scott Gries – SCOTT GRIES/PICTUREGROUP) Comedy Central remained deafeningly …Comedian Stephen ColbertWall Street Journal (blog)The Colbert Report suspended [...]

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The most expensive Starbucks drink ever is… – San Francisco Chronicle blog

February 17th, 2012 · No Comments

The most expensive Starbucks drink ever is… – San Francisco Chronicle blog National Post (blog) The most expensive Starbucks drink ever is…San Francisco Chronicle (blog)That's what a young man named Logan Warren ended up ordering when he asked a barista to make him the most expensive drink possible. (He had a gift card, after all [...]

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Denied by Kate Upton – New York Daily News

February 15th, 2012 · No Comments

New York Daily News Denied by Kate UptonNew York Daily NewsBy Rich Schapiro / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Daily News reporter Rich Schapiro asks Sports Illustrated Swimsuit cover girl Kate Upton out for a date outside a launch party in Manhattan. DENIED! For the briefest of moments, I actually thought I had a shot …RoadFish.com [...]

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MI model lands SI Swimsuit cover – WDIV Detroit

February 15th, 2012 · No Comments

MI model lands SI Swimsuit cover – WDIV Detroit New York Daily News MI model lands SI Swimsuit coverWDIV DetroitThe Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue is always wildly popular and this year a Michigan native is on the cover. Born in Saint Joseph, Michigan, 19-year-old model Kate Upton is on the cover of the 2012 Sports [...]

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Maria Menounos: Bikini bare in Times Square to pay Super Bowl bet – Los Angeles Times

February 8th, 2012 · No Comments

Maria Menounos: Bikini bare in Times Square to pay Super Bowl bet – Los Angeles Times NEWS.com.au Maria Menounos: Bikini bare in Times Square to pay Super Bowl betLos Angeles TimesThe Super Bowl brought a win for the New York Giants and a loss for Maria Menounous. A loss of clothing, actually, that saw her [...]

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