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The Philadelphia Inquirer – ARBITRAGE 3 stars. Slick and suspenseful financial-world thriller, with Richard Gere as a hedge fund king whose world is collapsing under the weight of a huge accounting scam
By Blair Kerkhoff, The Kansas City Star – The first BCS standings will be unveiled Sunday, and by late evening the system should be thoroughly trashed, social media blown up with the venom
By Jim Souhan, Star Tribune (Minneapolis) – MINNEAPOLIS — The last time Adrian Peterson visited FedEx Field in Landover, Md., he writhed on the turf, as other players knelt and prayed. He rode
By Mike Kaszuba, Star Tribune (Minneapolis) – COLLEGEVILLE, Minn. — The winningest coach in college football history, looking every bit his 85 years, sagged in his office chair and talked of his health,
By Joe Flint, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — Wall Street is not thrilled with the new fall television season. On Thursday, two prominent media analysts issued reports expressing concern about the
By Amy Kaufman, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — There will be a tense standoff between two rescue thrillers at the box office this weekend, as “Taken 2” and “Argo” battle for
By Bonnie Miller Rubin, Chicago Tribune – CHICAGO—Getting admitted to a top university isn’t enough. For many students, finishing the mission and getting a degree requires a variety of initiatives, from a rigorous
By Lance Pugmire, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES—The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency report that charged iconic cyclist Lance Armstrong with running the most sophisticated and extensive doping scheme in professional sports history presented
By David Sell, The Philadelphia Inquirer – PHILADELPHIA — So what is a compound pharmacy, one of which is the focus of attention in the national outbreak of fungal meningitis? Once upon a
By Kathleen Hennessey, Tribune Washington Bureau – WASHINGTON — Democrats who waited in vain last week for President Barack Obama to hit Mitt Romney on his 47 percent remark didn’t have to wait
By Michael A. Memoli, Tribune Washington Bureau – DANVILLE, Ky. — In his worst moments, after the gaffes that were truly gaffes and not just fodder for excitable cable news shows, election year-fueled
By Kevin G. Hall, McClatchy Newspapers – WASHINGTON — Jamie Dimon, America’s most celebrated banker, heaped criticism on regulators and politicians during a high-profile visit to the nation’s capital Wednesday, warning that overregulation
JOHANNESBURG — Officials from the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) of South Africa and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) announced the sentencing of a U.S. citizen for crimes
By Dana Hull, San Jose Mercury News – SAN JOSE, Calif. — The U.S. Commerce Department on Wednesday slapped big duties on solar panels imported from China, the latest decision in a highly
By Jim Peltz, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES—After crashing with more than 20 other drivers in a last-lap melee Sunday at Talladega Superspeedway, NASCAR’s Dale Earnhardt Jr. lashed out at what he
By William Douglas and Anita Kumar, McClatchy Newspapers – WASHINGTON — In their first and only debate, Vice President Joe Biden and Republican Rep. Paul Ryan verbally wrestled over Medicare, Social Security and
By Michael Finnegan and Alana Semuels, Los Angeles Times – Vice President Joe Biden and Rep. Paul D. Ryan of Wisconsin tangled over the Middle East, the economy, taxes and more in a
By Mike Bresnahan, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES—Dwight Howard’s back was hurting last season. Badly. Then something else happened: He couldn’t feel his left leg. “What a lot of people don’t know
By Tiffany Hsu, Los Angeles Times – An Idaho dairy farm linked to Burger King, In-N-Out and other food companies has been accused by an animal rights group of “some of the most