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Automobiles

BMW Recalls i8 Hybrid for Gasoline Fire Risk

By CHRISTOPHER JENSEN | Dec 8th 2014 

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Business Day

Eurozone’s Finance Ministers Extend Greek Bailout Program

By JAMES KANTER and NIKI KITSANTONIS | Dec 8th 2014

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World

Europe Keeps Hope Alive for Gas Pipeline From Russia

By JAMES KANTER | Dec 5th 2014

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Business Day

Oi of Brazil Agrees to Sell Assets in Portugal to Altice

By CHAD BRAY | Dec 9th 2014

The transaction, if completed, would allow Altice to add mobile phone service to its existing cable television operations in Portugal.

Cable Television; Cellular Telephones; Mergers, Acquisitions and Divestitures; Telephones and Telecommunications; Wireless Communications 

It is probably bottom feeding.

Portugal is broke.

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Automobiles

Kevin Harvick Celebrates Season With $12.8 Million

By JERRY GARRETT | Dec 8th 2014

More days of travel.

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Opinion

Christie’s Pig-Crate Politics

By MARK BITTMAN | Dec 2nd 2014

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Today in Politics

By THE NEW YORK TIMES | Dec 5th 2014

The deal is not done.

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Opinion

Pardon Bush and Those Who Tortured

By ANTHONY D. ROMERO | Dec 8th 2014

It’s the last hope of accountability for abuses in the war on terror.

Torture; Human Rights and Human Rights Violations; Amnesties, Commutations and Pardons; Classified Information and State Secrets 

If it is the way to close the door on torture I will not fight such pardons.

Opinion

Driving Ukrainians Into Putin’s Arms

By LEV GOLINKIN | Dec 8th 2014

Kiev and its allies are alienating the citizens of the east.

World War II (1939-45); Holocaust and the Nazi Era; Refugees and Displaced Persons; Neo Nazi Groups; International Relations 

Some Ukraine residents should be returned to Russia.

U.S.

Vermont: Governor’s Race Is Going to Legislature Without a Concession

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS | Dec 8th 2014

Sports

Before Loss, Rose Wears ‘I Can’t Breathe’ Shirt

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS | Dec 7th 2014

Sports

U.S. Holds America’s Cup but Won’t Be Host

By CHRISTOPHER CLAREY | Dec 2nd 2014

Good Idea.

N.Y. / Region

In D.E.A. Sting Operations, Robberies Aren’t Real, but Charges Are

By BENJAMIN WEISER | Dec 4th 2014

 

Entrapment.

Opinion

How ISIS Drives Muslims From Islam

By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN | Dec 6th 2014

 

Islam includes sharia.

N.Y. / Region

Hudson River Park Trust Plans Research and Education Center at Pier 26

By LISA W. FODERARO | Dec 4th 2014

The Upshot

Demise of the Southern Democrat Is Now Nearly Complete

By NATE COHN | Dec 4th 2014

Voting is required.

Business Day

Paid to Promote Eye Drug, and Prescribing It Widely

By KATIE THOMAS and RACHEL ABRAMS | Dec 7th 2014

Fraud

N.Y. / Region

Pizza Orders Reveal Credit Card Scheme, and a Secondhand Market

By MICHAEL WILSON | Dec 5th 2014

Facebook, smartphones and a Domino’s app were the tools of a Brooklyn credit card fraud that went far beyond extra toppings.

Identity Theft; Mobile Applications; Frauds and Swindling; Credit Cards 

These operators will find another way to cheat.

A debit card with limited funds looks like a good idea.

N.Y. / Region

Officer at Rikers Island Is Charged With Lying in Inmate’s Death

By MICHAEL SCHWIRTZ | Dec 8th 2014

Officer Carol Lackner, who is accused of falsifying records to show she had checked on the inmate, said in an interview that she was “getting all the blame” in the death.

Prisons and Prisoners; Deaths (Fatalities) 

Accidental death is proper.  

All anyone wants is no repeats. 

N.Y. / Region

Judge Calls Cablevision’s Raises an Anti-Union Act

By STEVEN GREENHOUSE | Dec 5th 2014

The decision also said that the company did not engage in bad-faith bargaining with the labor organization that represents its Brooklyn technicians.

Organized Labor

Half of the 20 doctors who received the most money from Genentech to promote its drug Lucentis in 2013 were among the highest users of the drug in 2012, a federal database shows.

Eyes and Eyesight; Doctors; Lucentis (Drug); Avastin (Drug); Macular Degeneration; Medicare; Conflicts of Interest

I am prejudiced.

Cablevision's management lost.

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