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• Icahn launches hostile bid for Lions Gate

  Local business from the Times-Dispatch | 03/19/2010 03:32 pm

  NEW YORK—Activist shareholder Carl Icahn is launching a takeover bid for Lions Gate Entertainment. The disclosure comes a week after the film studio rejected his bid to take a larger ...

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• Calif. transportation activist found dead in creek

  WRIC 8 News | 03/04/2010 11:36 am

  A former adviser to former Gov. Jerry Brown who became an activist on transportation issues has died in what California authorities believe was a suicide.

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• Ill will for slain Mich. activist as trial nears

  WRIC 8 News | 02/23/2010 01:49 pm

  In life, anti-abortion activist James Pouillon spent years trying to influence people in his small Michigan city with large signs of dead fetuses. In death, that combative style could make ...

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• Is Ben and Jerry' Closed- AGAIN?

  West of the Boulevard | 02/20/2010 03:01 pm

  Richmond Activist, Blogger, and Tweeter @RVAFoodie posted this yesterday. Noticed @BenJerrysVA in Carytown was closed during business hours tonight & all ice cream was gone. Victory is Bev’s!!! #RVA Can ...

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• What's Your Six Word Biography?

  Buttermilk & Molasses | 02/10/2010 09:06 pm

  Smith Magazine is inviting writers to submit their succinct life stories for its latest collection of extremely brief life stories, according to NPR. How succinct? Six words: It All Changed ...

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• Oregon Hill Cats Zine

  Oregon Hill | 02/08/2010 01:00 pm

  As promised, Shawn Jones has put the first issue of a zine devoted to Oregon Hill. Its a b/w photocopied affair that’s called ‘Oregon Hill Cats’. In it are features ...

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• Swift murder conviction in abortion doctor's death

  WRIC 8 News | 01/30/2010 01:40 pm

  An activist who confessed to gunning down one of the only U.S. doctors to offer late-term abortions faces a sentence of life in prison after a jury found him guilty ...

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• Worshippers urged not to 'sanitize' King's legacy

  WRIC 8 News | 01/19/2010 05:18 am

  A scholar and activist invoked the fiery side of Martin Luther King Jr.'s rhetoric Monday at the civil rights icon's church, urging the audience not to "sanitize" King's legacy or ...

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• SC crusaders look to right Jim Crow justice wrongs

  WWBT 12 News | 01/17/2010 04:45 pm

  Associated Press - January 17, 2010 11:45 AM ET MANNING, S.C. (AP) - A South Carolina activist is trying to clear the name of a 14-year-old boy put to death ...

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• paper dolls – final chance for Dec. 24 delivery

  Final Fashion | 12/14/2009 01:17 pm

  Just a heads up, if you are planning on getting the Paper Dolls book for a gift, this is the last day to order for delivery by December 24th. If ...

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• Outdoor Dining Guide Slideshow

  

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• Outdoor Dining Guide Slideshow

  

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  Several new ones to me, and just in time for ...

• A Dose of Perspective

  

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  Great story. Although, you made it extremely difficult for me ...