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Whitney Houston, the acclaimed and accomplished superstar singer, has died at age 48, her publicist announced today. Her recent history is one of seeking to fulfill her gift of music with her personal struggles, which included drugs, emotional... (from: www.examiner.com)

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Trae Golden scored 17 points, Jeronne Maymon added 15 points and 11 rebounds, and Tennessee upset No. 8 Florida 75-70 Saturday, ending the Gators' home-winning streak at 19. (from: nbcsports.msnbc.com)

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Trae Golden scored 17 points, Jeronne Maymon added 15 points and 11 rebounds, and Tennessee upset No. 8 Florida 75-70 Saturday, ending the Gators' home-winning streak at 19. (from: nbcsports.msnbc.com)

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Portland, Maine – Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney beat Ron Paul by a small margin at the Maine Caucuses Saturday.The announcement regarding the win was given by Maine Republican Party Chairman Charlie Webster.KABC 7 reports... (from: www.examiner.com)

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PORTLAND, Maine (Reuters) - Republican presidential front-runner Mitt Romney bounced back from midweek losses in three states to narrowly win Maine's caucuses on Saturday, hours after winning a straw poll of Republican conservative activists. (from: www.huffingtonpost.com)

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Mitt Romney, the perpetually questioned front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination, had a rough week. Three embarrassing losses to Rick Santorum in Tuesday’s non-binding contests led to questions about Romney’s conservative bona fides just in time for GOP activists, gathering at their annual Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, to collectively grumble about it. But [...] (from: swampland.time.com)

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Doubts about his ability to excite the conservative base remain amid concerns over his chances of beating Obama in November Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has got his campaign back on track by winning the Maine caucuses, holding off a strong challenge from the outsider, Texas Congressman Ron Paul. Although Romney will be relieved to have chalked up a victory after losing three contests in mid-week, he saw a huge 31% majority from the 2008 Republican nominating race shrink to just 3%. The narrowness of the win keeps alive doubts about his ability to excite the conservative base, and concerns that a lack of enthusiasm could prove a problem against Barack Obama in November. Romney now has four wins (New Hampshire, Florida, Nevada and Maine) to Rick Santorum's three (Minnesota, Iowa and Colorado), plus Santorum's victory in a popularity contest in Missouri where nothing was at stake. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich has just one, South Carolina. Maine was a big disappointment for Paul who invested a lot of time and had hoped finally to make a breakthrough and win a state. With 95% of the votes counted – some caucuses had to be delayed by snow – Romney took 39%, 2,190 votes, to Paul's 36% with 1,996 votes. Santorum took 18% and Gingrich 6%. Neither Santorum or Gingrich campaigned in Maine. Maine was important for Romney because it allows him to finish on a high ahead of an almost three-week break. The next round of contests is not until 28 February with Michigan and Arizona. Romney, in a statement issued after the Maine result, portrayed himself as a Washington outsider. "I am the only candidate in the race who has never served a day in our broken federal government. The voters of Maine have sent a clear message that it is past time to send an outsider to the White House, a conservative with a lifetime of experience in the private sector, who can uproot Washington's culture of taxing and spending and borrowing and endless bureaucracy." The win in Maine comes on top of a win for Romney in a straw poll at the conservative mega-conference in Washington, the Conservative Political Action Conference. He took 38% of the 3,804 votes, Santorum 31%, Gingrich 15% and Paul 12%. That is a good result for Romney, given that the attendees tend to be die-hard conservatives, a group that often view him as too moderate. Paul put his best face on the Maine result, declaring it a tie. He later conceded, in an interview with CNN, that Mitt Romney had re-established himself as frontrunner. He suggested he expected him to be the eventual winner, though noting he had failed to enthuse conservatives. "He is out in front … He picked up a little steam today," Paul said. Paul's long-term strategy is to build up a bloc of delegates to take to the party convention in Tampa, Florida, and expressed satisfaction with the high portion of delegates he expected to take from Maine. The vote on Saturday is non-binding and Paul predicted that when the delegates to the convention are eventually chosen he would have a majority. But even that would be a small victory in the greater scheme of things. Maine was Paul's best hope to win a state and he failed. That will not stop him continuing to gather delegates to take to the convention and seek concessions from the eventual winner. Romney is favourite to win Arizona, partly because of its big Mormon population and because of the support of its senator John McCain. He should be favourite to win Michigan, which is his home state, but Santorum appears intent on achieving an upset. Romney won Maine by a large margin in 2008, with 52% of the vote, with Paul coming third on 18% behind the eventual Republican nominee John McCain on 21%. There are 24 delegates at stake in Maine. One the last day of the CPAC meeting, Palin avoided endorsing any of the Republican candidates but he hinted at opposition to Romney. She said the nominee "must be someone who can instinctively turn right to constitutional conservative principles." A national opinion poll released late on Saturday from Public Policy Polling, puts Santorum well in front on 38%, with Romney on 23%, Gingrich 17% and Paul 13%. Mitt Romney Maine Republicans United States US politics Ewen MacAskill guardian.co.uk © 2012 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds (from: www.guardian.co.uk)

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Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis scored 23 points and third-ranked Connecticut got its 99th consecutive home victory, beating No. 14 Georgetown 80-38 on Saturday. (from: www.miamiherald.com)

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Republican presidential front-runner Mitt Romney bounced back from midweek losses in three states to narrowly win Maine's caucuses on Saturday, hours after winning a straw poll of Republican conservative activists. (from: telegraph.feedsportal.com)

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Republican presidential front-runner Mitt Romney bounced back from midweek losses in three states to narrowly win Maine's caucuses on Saturday, hours after winning a straw poll of Republican conservative activists. (from: telegraph.feedsportal.com)

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Katelan Redmon scored 18 points, Kayla Standish recorded her third consecutive double-double and No. 19 Gonzaga bounced back from its worst conference loss in a decade to beat San Francisco 79-59 on Saturday. (from: www.miamiherald.com)

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Phil Pressey scored 19 points and four of No. 4 Missouri's season-best 14 3-pointers, helping the Tigers pull away in the second half of a 72-57 victory over No. 6 Baylor on Saturday. (from: www.miamiherald.com)

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Wayne Rooney sent Manchester United to the top of the Premier League Saturday after a win over Liverpool in a match preceded by Luis Suárez’s refusal to shake Patrice Evra’s hand. (from: feeds1.nytimes.com)

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Deonte Alexander scored 27 points to lead Lipscomb to a 99-91 overtime victory over Stetson on Saturday. (from: www.miamiherald.com)

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Alicia Keys paid tribute to Paul McCartney with a special perfromance during the 2012 MusiCares Person of the Year event in Los Angeles Friday.Walking the red carpet prior to the event, Keys donned a green top with black leather... (from: www.examiner.com)

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - His university classmates may be thriving in law school, at brokerage houses and on the early rungs up the corporate ladder, but Jeremy Lin is blazing a trail as the sudden savior of the New York Knicks. The point guard from Harvard, an elite college better known as a springboard to the presidency than to basketball success, has galvanized a struggling Knicks team and launched a craze dubbed "Linsanity" by New York's tabloids. ... (from: news.yahoo.com)

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A Syrian military general and hospital director was killed in an attack by three gunmen in a residential street in Damascus on Saturday in an assassination that marks a move away from the anti-government uprising’s nonviolent roots. The killing came ahead of a meeting of Arab League members in Cairo to consider a new response to the violence in Syria and as pro- and anti-Assad forces exchanged fire nearby in northern Lebanon. —ARK The New York Times: The doctor [Dr. Issa al-Khouli], trained in Romania and France, came from an Alawite family with close ties inside the Assad government that has run Syria for the past 40 years, according to one activist in Syria who was piecing together his biography. … The killing came as the violent government offensive against Homs continued into a second week, leaving hundreds of dead and wounded. It followed by one day two bombs that targeted security directorates in the northern city of Aleppo, killing 28 people and wounding about 235, according to the government count. Outside analysts and diplomats suggested that the bombings might represent a new foray by Sunni jihadists from neighboring Iraq. Read more Related Entries February 8, 2012 27 Dead as Violence Escalates in Homs February 6, 2012 Syrian Army Unleashes Heavy Attack on Homs (from: www.truthdig.com)

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Sarah Palin said Saturday that Republicans should be in no hurry to wrap up the presidential nominating contest, declaring that a competitive campaign until the August convention in Tampa would not complicate the party's efforts to defeat President Obama. (from: thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com)

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Doubts about his ability to excite the conservative base remain amid concerns over his chances of beating Obama in November Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has got his campaign back on track by winning the Maine caucuses, holding off a strong challenge from the outsider, Texas Congressman Ron Paul. Although Romney will be relieved to have chalked up a victory after losing three contests in mid-week, he saw a huge 31% majority from the 2008 Republican nominating race shrink to just 3%. The narrowness of the win keeps alive doubts about his ability to excite the conservative base, and concerns that a lack of enthusiasm could prove a problem against Barack Obama in November. Romney now has four wins (New Hampshire, Florida, Nevada and Maine) to Rick Santorum's three (Minnesota, Iowa and Colorado), plus Santorum's victory in a popularity contest in Missouri where nothing was at stake. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich has just one, South Carolina. Maine was a big disappointment for Paul who invested a lot of time and had hoped finally to make a breakthrough and win a state. With 95% of the votes counted – some caucuses had to be delayed by snow – Romney took 39%, 2,190 votes, to Paul's 36% with 1,996 votes. Santorum took 18% and Gingrich 6%. Neither Santorum or Gingrich campaigned in Maine. Maine was important for Romney because it allows him to finish on a high ahead of an almost three-week break. The next round of contests is not until 28 February with Michigan and Arizona. Romney, in a statement issued after the Maine result, portrayed himself as a Washington outsider. "I am the only candidate in the race who has never served a day in our broken federal government. The voters of Maine have sent a clear message that it is past time to send an outsider to the White House, a conservative with a lifetime of experience in the private sector, who can uproot Washington's culture of taxing and spending and borrowing and endless bureaucracy." The win in Maine comes on top of a win for Romney in a straw poll at the conservative mega-conference in Washington, the Conservative Political Action Conference. He took 38% of the 3,804 votes, Santorum 31%, Gingrich 15% and Paul 12%. That is a good result for Romney, given that the attendees tend to be die-hard conservatives, a group that often view him as too moderate. Paul put his best face on the Maine result, declaring it a tie. He later conceded, in an interview with CNN, that Mitt Romney had re-established himself as frontrunner. He suggested he expected him to be the eventual winner, though noting he had failed to enthuse conservatives. "He is out in front … He picked up a little steam today," Paul said. Paul's long-term strategy is to build up a bloc of delegates to take to the party convention in Tampa, Florida, and expressed satisfaction with the high portion of delegates he expected to take from Maine. The vote on Saturday is non-binding and Paul predicted that when the delegates to the convention are eventually chosen he would have a majority. But even that would be a small victory in the greater scheme of things. Maine was Paul's best hope to win a state and he failed. That will not stop him continuing to gather delegates to take to the convention and seek concessions from the eventual winner. Romney is favourite to win Arizona, partly because of its big Mormon population and because of the support of its senator John McCain. He should be favourite to win Michigan, which is his home state, but Santorum appears intent on achieving an upset. Romney won Maine by a large margin in 2008, with 52% of the vote, with Paul coming third on 18% behind the eventual Republican nominee John McCain on 21%. There are 24 delegates at stake in Maine. One the last day of the CPAC meeting, Palin avoided endorsing any of the Republican candidates but he hinted at opposition to Romney. She said the nominee "must be someone who can instinctively turn right to constitutional conservative principles." A national opinion poll released late on Saturday from Public Policy Polling, puts Santorum well in front on 38%, with Romney on 23%, Gingrich 17% and Paul 13%. Mitt Romney Maine Republicans United States US politics Ewen MacAskill guardian.co.uk © 2012 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds (from: www.guardian.co.uk)

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Marlies Schild of Austria won her sixth World Cup slalom of the season Saturday after overall leader Lindsey Vonn and defending champion Maria Hoefl-Riesch crashed out in the opening run on the windy Pyrenees course. (from: news.yahoo.com)

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