AFP - Spanish golf legend Seve Ballesteros was Friday undergoing an operation, his third in 11 days, to ease swelling in his brain and remove the remains of a tumour, the Madrid hospital where he is being treated said.
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AFP - British tycoon Richard Branson said Friday his bid to break the world record for crossing the Atlantic was in jeopardy after his yacht was damaged by “massive seas and very strong gales.”
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AP - A jury of seven men and five women was sworn in for the murder retrial of music producer Phil Spector and attorneys began searching for six alternates, revealing that the ghost of another trial — the O.J. Simpson murder case — hangs over the current proceedings.
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AP - Scott McClellan, President Bush’s former press secretary who angered old colleagues with a tell-all book earlier this year, said Thursday he is backing Barack Obama for president.
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Reuters - As campaign managers for Sarah Palin plot last-minute tactics to get her elected, Hollywood bigwigs are convening strategy sessions of their own. Their goal: finding the ideal on-air vehicle for the vp candidate if and when she exits politics.
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AP - Letterman, Leno and Conan were all off Thursday night, but Will Ferrell and Tina Fey were on. Quotes from their “SNL” appearance and other late-night election jokes from Thursday:
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AP - Appearing as President Bush on the primetime edition of “Saturday Night Live,” Will Ferrell offered his political “strategery” to Tina Fey’s Sarah Palin.
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AFP - A Russian Soyuz capsule carrying US millionaire video game guru Richard Garriott, the world’s sixth space tourist, and two Russian cosmonauts, landed in Kazakhstan as scheduled, the Russian mission control center said early Friday.
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AP - Most of the dozen speakers at David Foster Wallace’s memorial service brought a bottle of water to the lectern, as if inside were some branded tonic that would ease reliving the loss of a beloved author and friend.
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