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Bay Area News Project has high hopes, few employees
A wealthy philanthropist has kicked in $5 million in seed money. A top management consultant has come up with a business plan. A renowned university will lend not only its students but research help. And the budding endeavor has a chief executive who will pull down $400,000 a year and one of the world's most prestigious newspapers ready to give its future news offerings a home.
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Abu Dhabi is future base for News Corp: Murdoch
News Corp chief Rupert Murdoch announced on Tuesday that the Gulf emirate of Abu Dhabi is to become the headquarters of his global media empire in the Middle East.
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Sporting News college basketball Most Improved Player of the Year: John Shurna, Northwestern
John Shurna's massive improvement this year started in Colorado over the summer. Northwestern forward John Shurna's emergence from unknown freshman to Sporting News Most Improved Player for the 2009-10 season came out of thin air. Specifically, the thin air at the U.S. Olympic training center in Colorado Springs, where Shurna successfully tried out for the USA Basketball U-19 national team that ...
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Sporting News college basketball Defensive Player of the Year: Jarvis Varnado, Mississippi State
Jarvis Varnado is the nation's top defender and the NCAA's top shot blocker ever. The curious thing about Sporting News Defensive Player of the Year Jarvis Varnado's shot-blocking is he seems almost polite while he's making his opponents eat their layups. There's a genteel quality to his destruction of opposing offense that seems to fit with his quiet personality. But those offenses are wrecked ...
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Sporting News college basketball Sixth Man of the Year: Scoop Jardine, Syracuse
Scoop Jardine is SN's Sixth Man of the Year. Guard Scoop Jardine has not had the best season of the Syracuse players who open each game on the bench. But he is the Sporting News' Sixth Man of the Year. Our qualifications for the award are different than those of the Big East or the NBA. To be considered, a player must not rank among his team's top five in minutes played. How can a guy be a team ...
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Sporting News college basketball Player of the Year: Evan Turner, Ohio State
Jeff D'Alessio, Sporting News Evan Turner made a seamless transition from the frontcourt to point guard this year. Share Before a January ceremony honoring Ohio State's 1960 national championship team, a nervous Evan Turner broke the trophy he was to hand Jerry Lucas. It wouldn't be the last precious item he'd break that belonged to a Buckeyes legend. During a record-setting junior season, "Evan ...
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UDD opens counter-govt news centre
The United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) has opened a centre to monitor news released by both the government and the red shirts to detect fabrications, Somyos Prueksakasemsuk, editor of the "Voice of Taksin" magazine, announced on Wednesday.
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