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Priceline to buy Mass.-based
Kayak for $1.8B
Boston Herald, by Staff
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Posted By:John c, 11/8/2012 7:27:48 PM
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Priceline.com is snapping up Kayak Software, an online travel research site based in Concord, for $1.8 billion. “We’re excited to join the world’s premier online travel company. The Priceline Group’s global reach and expertise will accelerate our growth and help us further develop as a company,” said Kayak CEO Steve Hafner, who founded the company eight years ago with Paul English. Kayak allows users to compare hundreds of travel sites when looking for flights, hotels and rental cars. The deal is expected to expand Priceline’s travel business and build Kayak’s brand.
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Comments:
$1.8 Billion, not bad but he didn't build it per obama and he will find a way to steal the gain.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
avikingman, 11/8/2012 7:37:36 PM (No. 9000817)
I tried using kayak a bit back. Now that I know there in MA, not a chance.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
civilservant, 11/9/2012 9:09:02 AM (No. 9001986)
Unless I can use a star trek transporter to get to a state that voted solid red, I will stay home.
Spend no money on travel. Let Vegas die.
Spend no money on frivolity. I told my daughter that this year, Santa is being taxed and regulated and that it will be a very very small celebration.
Fight with all we have left to us. Let 'them' suffer the consequences of their vote.
I am a Giants football fan. Victor Cruz's endorsement of Obama, and his responses afterwards("I was very excited, it's big for minorites, it's big for latin culture, the latin community, it's big for all of us."-not a WORD about it being good for America) have resulted in my hope that he trips outside of the stadium property and shatters his knees, dying in poverty in the gutter. I'd trade EVERY future win for the Jints to save AMERICA.
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Mass. delegation pushes for Energy
Dept. loan for Cape Wind
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Boston Herald, by Marie Szaniszlo
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Posted By: John c- 4/5/2013 2:53:29 PM
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The entire Massachusetts congressional delegation has written a letter urging the Department of Energy to act quickly on Cape Wind’s loan guarantee application so that the first off-shore wind farm in the country can move forward. “Cape Wind is critical for three reasons. It will create much-needed jobs, provide an economic boost to the southern part of the commonwealth and promote the clean-energy technology that is critical to the future of our country,” said Rep. Bill Keating. “Further, being home to the country’s first off-shore wind farm will establish Massachusetts as a hub of new energy technology,
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Federal judge orders FDA to make
morning-after pill available over the
counter for females of all ages
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New York Daily News, by John Marzulli
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Posted By: John c- 4/5/2013 9:24:51 AM
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A Brooklyn federal judge has ordered the Food and Drug Administration to make the morning-after pill available to females of all ages without a prescription. Judge Edward Korman on Friday reversed the FDA´s 2011 decision limiting the over-the-counter availability of the emergency contraceptive known as Plan B to women 17 and older. He gave the agency 30 days to decide only whether the pills’ package should include additional labeling. The standards for determining whether a consumer can understand how to use an over-the-counter drug safely and effectively is the same for aspirin as it is for contraceptives, Korman noted.
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Wage increase good news for
workers; business owners
feeling pinched
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Cape Breton Post, by Staff
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Posted By: John c- 4/2/2013 7:51:31 AM
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SYDNEY —(Nova Scotia) Minimum wage earners in Nova Scotia received a raise Monday, the fourth such increase since 2010. The provincial minimum increased Monday by 1.5 per cent to $10.30 an hour, while the wage for someone who has less than three months of experience also increased to $9.80 an hour. Nova Scotia now has the highest minimum wage in Atlantic Canada, and one of the highest in the country, (Snip) “This will hurt a lot of rural businesses,”
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Breaking: Inspector General Report
on Racialist Dysfunction inside
DOJ
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PJ Media, by J. Christian Adams
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Posted By: John c- 3/13/2013 5:23:25 AM
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Today the Department of Justice inspector general released a report on potential Labor secretary nominee Tom Perez’s DOJ Civil Rights Division. The timing of the release to coincide with his nomination was certainly accidental, because the report paints a damning portrait of the DOJ unit he managed. (The full report is here.) The 250-page report offers an inside glimpse of systemic racialist dysfunction inside one of the most powerful federal government agencies. The report was prepared in response to Representative Frank Wolf’s (R-VA) outrage over the New Black Panther voter intimidation dismissal.
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Fed Beige Book mentions Pa.,
Ohio drilling impact
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Associated Press, by Kevin Becos
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Posted By: John c- 3/7/2013 5:31:59 PM
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PITTSBURGH - The U.S. Federal Reserve´s latest survey of regional economic trends is mentioning the Marcellus Shale natural gas boom. The Fed´s latest Beige Book issued Wednesday mentions that Pennsylvania banks see customers paying down loans with natural gas royalty money. In neighboring Ohio the Fed says shale gas activity is expanding at a robust pace, but some auto dealers are worried they´re lose technicians to energy companies. Economists say it´s interesting that bankers and other businesses in the northeast are mentioning shale gas.
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Warren critics, take note
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Boston Herald, by Margery Eagan
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Posted By: John c- 3/3/2013 7:33:12 AM
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Those who like to deride her as the “fake Indian” should know: Freshman U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren has done more for your wallet in the past two weeks than Scott Brown did in two years and most of Congress has managed in their entire careers. Warren crushed and humiliated, first, federal banking regulators, and then Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke on why both sit on their hands while big banks keep shafting average Americans — even though average Americans’ tax dollars bailed them out. Warren did this calmly, graciously, politely, in complete control and without ever reading a note. And she reduced both Bernanke and Elisse Walter, chairman of the mighty Securities and Exchange Commission, to gulping and stammering.
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Court rejects Alaska bid to remove
polar bear from threatened list
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Anchorage Daily News, by Sean Cockerham
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Posted By: John c- 3/2/2013 12:11:32 PM
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WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court has rejected the state of Alaska’s attempt to remove polar bears from the threatened species list. Friday’s decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia has major implications, because polar bears were the first species to be listed solely on the basis of threats to their survival from global warming. The D.C. appeals court affirmed a lower court ruling supporting the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s decision to put polar bears on the federal threatened list.
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Bombings, suicide attack rock
Afghanistan
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CNN, by Qadir Sediqi
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Posted By: John c- 2/24/2013 8:56:17 AM
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IKABUL, Afghanistan —A series of explosions in eastern Afghanistan killed at least one person and wounded six on Sunday, officials said. In the first attack, a car bomb targeted a building belonging to National Directorate of Security, near the city of Jalalabad in Nangarhar province, a government spokesman said. The early morning blast killed one person and wounded two others, provincial spokesman Ahmad Zia Abdulzai said. In a second attack, a minibus packed with explosives targeted a police checkpoint in Logar province, said Den Mohammad Darwish, provincial government spokesman said. That blast wounded three people, he said.
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Unions pack Assembly to protest
labor-law rewrite
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Anchorage Daily News, by Kyle Hopkins
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Posted By: John c- 2/13/2013 6:37:00 AM
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More than 750 people, many representing eight labor groups, clogged the Tuesday night Anchorage Assembly meeting in a sign of the fight to come over Mayor Dan Sullivan´s proposal to weaken city unions. Assembly members voted 7-4 to allow the proposal to proceed to a public hearing on Feb. 26. Assembly members Dick Traini, Paul Honeman, Elvi Gray-Jackson and Patrick Flynn voted to kill the plan outright. Sullivan says the sweeping changes are long overdue and necessary to streamline labor negotiations and deliver city services cheaper and more efficiently.
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On modernization spree,
NSG aims to create US Navy
Seal model
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Times of India, by Deeptiman Tiwary
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Posted By: John c- 2/8/2013 7:46:50 PM
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NEW DELHI: If ever India gets its hands on LeT chief Hafiz Saeed, the government will be able to watch his capture or killing live much the same way as US president Barrack Obama watched the take down of Osama Bin Laden by US Navy Seals sitting in his office. On a modernization spree post-26/11 attacks, the NSG has embarked on a project to create a super commando, what it calls the "future black cat". The project itself is inspired by the US Navy Seals´ Abbottabad operation to kill Osama Bin Laden.
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Mayor: ‘Stay off the streets’
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Boston Herald, by Dave Wedge
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Posted By: John c- 2/8/2013 5:47:12 AM
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Mayor Thomas M. Menino will hunker down with staff at City Hall today as a blizzard slams into the Hub, bringing with it high winds, possibly 2 feet of snow — or more — and a winter wallop not seen in Boston in years. “The forecast is changing slightly so we could be seeing more snow than anticipated,” Menino spokeswoman Dot Joyce said last night. “The mayor is asking everybody to hunker down and be helpful to one another. And hopefully we’ll get the city cleaned up before Monday.” Schools were shut down today
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Scott Brown in talks with
Fox News
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Boston Herald, by Hillary Chabot
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Posted By: John c- 2/6/2013 7:43:34 PM
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Former U.S. Sen. Scott Brown is in talks with the Fox New Channel to join the network, a Fox spokeswoman has confirmed. She declined to say what role Brown would play at the cable network. The network recently cut ties with former GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin and former Clinton presidential advisor Dick Morris. Brown, who lost his Senate seat to Democrat Elizabeth Warren in November, announced last Friday he would not be running in the special Senate election o fill the seat being vacated by Secretary of State John F. Kerry.
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We Are Living in
a Dying Country
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Rushlimbaugh.com, by Rush Limbaugh
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/5/2013 4:53:10 PM
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RUSH: Folks, I don´t know how else to categorize this. We are living in a dying country. I don´t know how else to categorize what´s happening -- 88,000 new jobs. The unemployment rate, because of a terrible statistic, is down to 7.6%. The number of people in this country who are not working is shameful. Ninety million Americans are no longer in the workforce. Ninety million. People not in the labor force grew by 663,000, and now 90 million. That´s the labor force participation rate. This is 1979 levels.
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Why Obama´s ´Best-Looking Attorney
General´ Comment Was a Gaffe
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The Atlantic, by Garance Franke-Ruta
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Posted By: Oblio- 4/6/2013 6:51:15 AM
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President Obama´s biggest gaffe yesterday when speaking of California Attorney General Kamala Harris was not in flirtatiously complimenting her as "the best-looking attorney general," but in introducing an observation from the system of beauty into a forum that was about the system of power.What´s that, you say? Irin Carmon does a great job in Salon in laying out the bounds of propriety for when it´s appropriate to talk about a woman´s looks as a general matter. But I´ve long felt we lack a solid theoretical underpinning for easily discussing these issues, and why precisely it is that
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´My bangs are getting
a little irritating´: Michelle
Obama admits she already regrets
her high-maintenance hairdo
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Daily Mail (UK), by Margot Peppers
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Posted By: pineledger- 4/7/2013 7:43:42 AM
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Michelle Obama has admitted that she is already tired of the bangs she first sported in January. The First Lady said in an interview with Entertainment Tonight: ´Bangs are a day-by-day proposition. They´re starting to grow out, get a little irritating.´ Still, she hasn´t let her hairdo woes get her down. ´It´s okay,´ she said after her initial complaint. ´We´ll be good.´ The first indication that her hairstyle was becoming a burden came about last weekend, when Malia, 14, was spotted adjusting her mother´s hair during the White House Easter Egg Roll.
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Hillary Clinton Would Not
´Clear the Field´ for 2016
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New Republic, by Tod Lindberg
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/6/2013 5:22:36 AM
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No one is more preoccupied these days with Hillary Clinton´s 2016 plans than the Beltway political class—not even the former presidential candidate herself. To hear some tell it, her decision will be dispositive for all other Democrats thinking of entering the race. And pundits and reporters aren´t the only ones positing the "The Hillary Factor": No less than the House Democratic whip, Steny Hoyer, told BuzzFeed, “I don´t know that anybody would run against Hillary…. If she runs, she clears the field.” It´s an understandable conclusion, given Clinton´s stature in the Democratic Party and her 70 percent
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Obama critic apologizes for
his ´poorly chosen words´
on gay marriage
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The Hill [Washington DC], by Alexandra Jaffe
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/6/2013 12:18:19 PM
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Neurosurgeon Ben Carson, considered by some to be a potential Republican contender for president, apologized to Johns Hopkins University for the "poorly chosen words" he used in expressing his opposition to gay marriage last month.“I am sorry for any embarrassment this has caused,” Carson said in the letter, reported in New York Magazine.(Snip) "Although I do believe marriage is between a man and a woman, there are much less offensive ways to make that point. I hope all will look at a lifetime of service over some poorly chosen words.” Carson will remain as commencement speaker at Johns Hopkins,
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Hillary Clinton: The clock is turning
back for women in America
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Washington Examiner, by Charlie Spiering
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/5/2013 3:25:20 PM
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Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton explained to the Women in the World summit in New York today that the clock is turning back for women in America. Clinton praised her own mother for helping empower her to success and marveled at the opportunities that her own daughter Chelsea has pursued. But Clinton warned that there is still so much to do to promote women´s rights in America. "As I look at all these young women that I am privileged to work with, or know through Chelsea, and its hard to imagine turning the clock on them," Clinton said.
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White House Blames Jobs
Numbers on Sequester
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Breitbart´s Big Government, by Wynton Hall
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/5/2013 8:02:58 PM
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The Obama White House is scrambling to blame Friday’s abysmal March jobs numbers on the sequester’s trimming of the rate of growth in federal budgets that have yet to fully commence. After the Labor Department announced that a mass exodus of 663,000 workers left the U.S. workforce last month and that job creation fell 112,000 jobs short of projections, Obama’s top economic adviser Alan B. Krueger, took to the White House blog to blame the sequester: It is important to bear in mind that the March household and payroll surveys are the first monthly surveys to look
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Mother Of Slain Benghazi
Officer To Sean Hannity:
‘They Want Me To Shut Up’
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Mediaite, by A.J. Delgado
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/7/2013 5:00:16 AM
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On Friday, Sean Hannity brought Pat Smith, mother of the late Sean Smith, on his radio program. The 34-year-old information management officer was one of four Americans murdered in the Benghazi embassy attack on September 11, 2012. In the chilling interview, a distraught Ms. Smith, in tears, pleaded for answers and spoke of the efforts to silence her. Ms. Smith first relayed how her son, prior to the attack, requested additional security in advance and warned the State Department: He did tell them, ahead of time, he typed it into his little typewriter over there,
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Vanishing workforce
weighs on growth
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Washington Post, by Jim Tankersley
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/6/2013 11:28:59 PM
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Put out an all-points bulletin: Millions of Americans have gone missing from the workforce. Every month that those would-be workers are gone raises the odds that they might never come back, dimming the prospects for future economic growth. The vanishing trend is more than a decade old, but it accelerated during the Great Recession. Throughout 2012, economists held out hope that it had stopped. But then came Friday’s jobs report, and hopes were dashed. The Labor Department reported that the U.S. labor force — everyone who has a job or is looking for one — shrank
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Trayvon Martin´s parents
settle wrongful death claim
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Orlando Sentinel, by Rene Stutzman
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/5/2013 3:15:25 PM
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SANFORD - Trayvon Martin´s parents have settled a wrongful death claim for an amount believed to be more than $1 million against the homeowners association of the Sanford subdivision where their teenage son was killed. Their attorney, Benjamin Crump, filed that paperwork at the Seminole County Courthouse, a portion of which was made public today. In the five pages of the settlement that were available for public review, the settlement amount had been marked out. Lower in the agreement, the parties specified that they would keep that amount confidential. When asked during an earlier interview whether the amount was
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Beyonce, Jay-Z celebrate 5th
anniversary in Havana, Cuba
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Los Angeles Times, by Nardine Saad
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Posted By: Fiesta del sol- 4/6/2013 8:20:04 AM
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Beyonce and Jay-Z celebrated their fifth wedding anniversary in Cuba this week. The couple, who married on April 4, 2008, took in the sights of Old Havana, visited a school, dined on a rooftop terrace and strolled the fan-filled streets in their island best.(snip).The power couple declined to answer journalists´ questions about their visit to the island nation, but some outlets are reporting that the moguls are there as tourists, though that would be illegal because of the half-century embargo the U.S. has on the Communist country. However, the Miami Herald said Washington has issued special licenses for
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