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Covidien agreed to buy Aspect in a deal valued at $210 million.
JOHNSON & JOHNSON INC, $61.43, up 1.3 pct
CRUCELL NV, $22.30, down 5.9 pct (U.S. shares)
J&J has bought an 18 percent stake in Crucell for $444 million as part of a flu vaccine development deal.
DOW CHEMICAL CO, $26.17, up 4.1 pct
The company said the Federal Trade Commission has cleared the way for its $1.68 billion sale of Morton Salt to Germany’s K+S AG to go ahead.
VIRGIN MEDIA, $12.96, up 4.6 pct
The company said it would launch a secondary listing on the main market of the London Stock Exchange through the admission of shares of common stock.
RICK’S CABARET INTERNATIONAL INC, $8.50, up 6.6 pct
The company agreed to buy Cabaret North, an upscale gentlemen’s club in Texas, for $2.3 million.

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Monday, September 28, 2009
Shackelford: The Case for Hannah Giles   [Robert Costa]
Hannah Giles, the sophomore at Florida International University who posed as a prostitute in her ACORN exposé, has been sued by the community-organizing group for secretly taping its employees in Baltimore. She tells NRO that the suit is “silly.” Nonetheless, she’s taking the charges seriously, and has hired Kelly Shackelford, the chief counsel at the Liberty Legal Institute, to represent her in the case. Shackelford tells us that ACORN’s lawsuit is a “clear attempt to chill speech and to bully a young woman.”
“I don’t think that their allegations have any basis,” says Shackelford. “There’s a long history in this country of protecting independent journalism and holding people accountable. Punishing a citizen journalist for catching government abuse and waste would be travesty. Hannah is a citizen journalist. Her whole passion for her career is to be a journalist, to be an investigative journalist that uncovers abuse and inspires other people to take action to do the same.”

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Paterson has been a strong advocate for gay equality. He became governor in March 2008 after Eliot Spitzer resigned in the wake of a prostitution scandal.

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Human Planet by Dale Templar and Brian Leith is a highly illustrated tie-in to an eight-part BBC1 series to be shown in autumn 2010 (world rights).
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The discovery of a library belonging to one of Stalin’s henchman leads Rachel Polonsky on a journey into Russia in Molotov’s Magic Lantern (Feb. 2010; world rights excluding U.S.; Dutch rights sold; U.S. publisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux; agent Catherine Clarke at Felicity Bryan). Rob Chapman portrays the enigmatic founder-member of Pink Floyd in Syd Barrett: A Very Irregular Head (Mar. 2010, world rights, agent Sarah Such).
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Number one bestseller Martina Cole’s new novel is Hard Girls (Oct. 2009) about the hunt for a serial killer who is murdering prostitutes (options out for U.S. rights, French, Czech, Japanese, Romanian, Slovak, Serbian, Portuguese, Hungarian, Russian, Spanish and Indonesian). Rosie Wallace’s first novel, Scandal in the House (Mar. 2010, world rights) portrays outrageous goings-on in a small Scottish town.

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This weekend the Times offered a more light-hearted take from Moscow-based correspondent Clifford J. Levy: “Oligarchs have their share of occupational hazards: heavily armed rivals, stupendously corrupt bureaucrats,” etc., but can Prokhorov face down longtime Atlantic Yards project opponent Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn? Perhaps Comrade Goldstein should hire bodyguards; “Things are still done in a very simple way in Moscow,” an emigre tells Levy; he does not indicate that the emigre drew a finger across his neck and made a “ksssht” noise, though he is told that in the old country the “main person in the neighborhood” makes the decisions and “the community has no say.” Marty Markowitz must be loving this…
Levy indicates that Prokhorov may be impatient with the “environmental impact statements” and “community board input” we New Yorkers require of business titans. “Can’t we get the thumb’s up from the local chieftain and get it done?” Also, Brooklynites “like organic food and bicycles,” while Moscovites “don’t recycle” and “smoke heavily.” We smell sitcom! Watch fish-out-of-water Mikhail take over the Park Slope Food Co-Op and use it to run prostitutes and nuclear weapons!

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Previously unheard conversations between Michael Jackson and Jewish scholar Rabbi Shmuley have revealed the late King of Pop’s surprising disdain for Madonna.
Shocking to say the least, the conversation, in which Jackson calls the “Vogue” singer a “nasty witch,” aired on NBC Friday.    
“Madonna laid the law down. She said, ‘We are going to the restaurant,
afterwards we are going to a strip bar.’ I said, ‘I am not going to a
strip bar, where they cross-dress.’ Guys who are girls and girls… I
am not going there. I am not going.’ I think afterwards she wrote some
mean things about me in the press and I said that she’s a nasty
witch,” Jackson told Shmuley in the recording, referring to his infamous date and night out with the icon.

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The redbrick warehouses were missing windows, and some of those that were not boarded up and empty had found new use as strip clubs. But most of the buildings were modest Federal-style two-family houses, roughly the same as those in the more affluent neighborhoods of New Haven. Except here, in Fair Haven, they showed the wear of a frictional area, a place where cab drivers are loath to go at night, where most of the city’s 22,000 foreign-born residents (10,000 to 15,000 of them undocumented immigrants) make their home. The Italians used to live around this way, as did the Irish once. Now it’s mostly Latinos. Fair Haven, out of all the city’s neighborhoods, stands most apart, not only because it is bounded by the Interstate on one side and by water on the other three, but also because the smell of rotisserie and sounds of salsa could just as easily place it in any Latin American barrio.

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If youve been lucky enough to spot PoleRidersa bicycle trailing a strippers pole, plus dancer, through the streets of New Yorkthen you might have an inkling of the artfulness and endurance required to be a Pole Superstar. Tonight, six of the countrys best pole dancers compete for a victory lap on the PoleRiders contraption (oh, yeah, and $10 grand) by climbing, flipping over, wrapping around, and basically making love to a metal stick in front of a panel of celebrity judges. The audience chooses the winner via text message during the show. If the tickets too pricey, know that you can witness totally free softcore in the privacy of your own home: The competition will be broadcast live over the Pole Superstar website.

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By Deirdre Donahue, USA TODAY
The King of Pop lives on in the hearts of publishers who are releasing a batch of new Michael Jackson books this fall.
Just out with a 400,000 first printing: The Michael Jackson Tapes: A Tragic Icon Reveals His Soul in Intimate Conversation by Rabbi Shmuley Boteach (Vanguard Press, $25.95). Boteach hosts the TLC show Shalom in the Home.
The New Jersey rabbi met Jackson in March 1999 through entertainer Uri Geller. The book is an annotated collection of Boteach’s 30 hours of taped interviews with Jackson conducted from August 2000 to April 2001.
Topics include God, Jackson’s unhappy childhood and Boteach’s belief that although Jackson was heterosexual, his attitudes toward women were warped by his early exposure to strippers at clubs where the Jackson 5 performed.

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Last week’s criticism and an apparent snub by Obama who gushed over Cuomo during a New York visit was embarrassing publicly for Paterson. Worse, it may be lethal financially, giving Democratic campaign contributors cover to cut checks to Cuomo and, with the apparent blessing of the nation’s first black president, not worry about a backlash.
That will make Paterson’s decision for him. It was the same force that made Cuomo exit the 2002 race for governor as money and support flowed to then-state Comptroller Carl McCall in his losing campaign to unseat Gov. George Pataki.
Without friends, a free flow of campaign cash and the contacts made from a previous campaign for governor, Paterson is mostly alone. Inheriting the job 18 months ago when Spitzer resigned amid a prostitution probe and governing through the worst fiscal crisis in state history left him saying ”no” to powerful, well-funded special interests, while repeatedly committing his own political missteps, including the ugly process to replace Clinton with Gillibrand.

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