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Rickie Weeks hit a two-run homer in the eighth inning and Aramis Ramirez added a solo shot in the ninth to lift the Milwaukee Brewers to a 3-1 win over the Houston Astros on Wednesday night.    ...
Source : The New York Times | 3 Hour(s) AgoCategory : frontpage
Italy rallied from a two-goal deficit to beat Japan on Wednesday and earn a spot in the Confederations Cup semifinals.    ...
Source : The New York Times | 3 Hour(s) AgoCategory : frontpage
Tahiti, a team made up almost exclusively of amateur players, faces World Cup champion Spain on Thursday in the Confederations Cup.    ...
Source : The New York Times | 4 Hour(s) AgoCategory : frontpage
Federal Trade Commission plans to issue subpoenas to companies that are patent trolls, meaning that they buy large portfolios of technology patents and use them to sue other entities.    ...
Source : The New York Times | 4 Hour(s) AgoCategory : frontpage
chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, at a Lloyds branch in London on Wednesday.The comments were the clearest sign yet of the government’s approach to the two banks, which were rescued during the financial crisis. Nearly five years later — and with a general election on the horizon — questions have been raised about when the government might be able to whittle down the taxpayers’ 39 percent...
Source : The New York Times | 5 Hour(s) AgoCategory : frontpage
Chartered train trips tend to conjure images of flag bunting, stump speeches and glad-handing politicians.But a cross-country whistle-stop tour now being planned as a kind of rolling public art project by the artistMr. Aitken, who works in Los Angeles and whose pieces in video and film often explore speed and people in transit, has organized a three-week journey from New York to San Francisco, with...
Source : The New York Times | 5 Hour(s) AgoCategory : frontpage
Scented candles and other aromatics can round out an interior. A pair of designers sniff out their favorites.    ...
Source : The New York Times | 7 Hour(s) AgoCategory : frontpage
for 30 of the company’s 50 seasons, and given his accomplishments – which include renovating the Seattle Opera House, staging productions of the complete Wagner canon and making the company’s “Ring” cycle an international attraction – it seemed as if he would lead the company indefinitely. But Mr. Jenkins, 76, told the board in 2011 that he would like to step down, and that set in motion a two-year...
Source : The New York Times | 8 Hour(s) AgoCategory : frontpage
STOKE PARK, England -– Events don’t get more quintessentially British than the Boodles Challenge, the pre-Wimbledon exhibition tournament tucked away in a well-heeled corner of the English countryside. This is tennis’ version of Royal Ascot, a week in which the spectator experience is as much about the clinking of champagne glasses as feasting on the sight of Richard Gasquet’s backhand.It’s also a...
Source : The New York Times | 8 Hour(s) AgoCategory : frontpage
Denis Kudla recently loss at Queens Club on grass, but advanced through Wimbledon qualifying.ROEHAMPTON, England — Four American men — Denis Kudla, Alex Kuznetsov, Wayne Odesnik, and Bobby Reynolds — qualified for the Wimbledon main draw Wednesday, winning the best-of-five final qualifying-round matches unique to this tournament.Kudla was the first to advance with a 6-4, 6-4, 6-3 win over Ruben Bemelmans...
Source : The New York Times | 8 Hour(s) AgoCategory : frontpage
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