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| Bans for Jamaican player, doctor | | | FIFA suspended veteran Jamaican midfielder Jermaine Hue nine months for doping but handed the team doctor a more severe four-year punishment. |
| Merkel ally attacks left's plan to poll members over tie-up | | | BERLIN (Reuters) - The head of Angela Merkel's Bavarian allies has attacked a plan by the opposition Social Democrats (SPD) to put any decision on forming a "grand coalition" with her to a vote of its grassroots members, warning against tactics that threaten stability. |
| Ballmer goes out punching at last Microsoft employee meeting | | | SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp Chief Executive Steve Ballmer took his farewell bow before thousands of applauding employees on Thursday with a typically loud and emotional performance at his last companywide meeting, talking up the software giant's prospects and taking swipes at rivals. |
| Datapoints Why Verizon Wanted It All | | | Verizon Communications move to buy the remainder of Verizon Wireless reflects the extraordinary profit advantage of wireless over landline service. |
| Leading the way for golf's multimillionaires | | | The PGA Tour can make instant millionaires at virtually every one of its tournaments -- but it was not always that way. It took golf pioneer Billy Casper almost 15 years to reach seven figures in the nascent days of the pro circuit. |
| UPDATE 1-Top SEC lawyer on 'Fabulous Fab' trial to depart agency | | | WASHINGTON, Sept 27 (Reuters) - Matthew Martens, the top trial lawyer at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission who led the agency to victory in its blockbuster civil fraud case against Goldman Sachs Vice President Fabrice Tourre, is leaving the SEC at the end of September. |
| German politics 'Americanized?' | | | Germans have learned a lot about Chancellor Merkel in this election cycle we now know she has a drivers' license, but feels too insecure to drive herself. |
| Well Medicine Is More Than Carrots and Sticks | | | In todays medical schools, words like provider and consumer are used as frequently as healer and patient. But no arsenal of incentives alone will ever produce the kind of compassion and attention to detail every patient wants and deserves. |
| Fiscal gridlock may leave Iraqi translators stranded | | | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Thousands of Iraqis who risked their lives working for the American military and are waiting for special visas to move to the United States could remain in limbo for months because of Congress' inability to reach a budget agreement. |
| Ex cons turn curators | | | September 25 - Nine inmates from a French penitentiary select works of art for an exhibition. Sharon Reich reports. |
| Iranians Welcome President With Protest | | | Protesters hurled eggs and a shoe at President Hassan Rouhani of Iran as he returned to Tehran after supporters cheered him for reaching out to President Obama. |
| Obama sharply critical of Republican opponents of healthcare law | | | LARGO, Maryland (Reuters) - President Barack Obama lashed out at Republican opponents of the healthcare law he pioneered on Thursday ahead of a key deadline for enrollment and vowed that he would stop attempts to get the program bogged down in an ongoing budget stalemate. |
| Nigerian Islamists kill 27 in northeast attacks - official | | | MAIDUGURI, Nigeria, Sept 28 (Reuters) - Gunmen from Islamist group Boko Haram killed 27 villagers in two attacks in Nigeria's restive northeast this week, a government official said, as violence continued to flare in the face of an army crackdown on the militants. |
| Marijuana The Uruguayan model | | | Views on marijuana are shifting, but nearly everywhere, it is too early to talk about substantive changes to drug policies. |
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