Apparently in Q4 of this year, LG will launch a new Black Label-branded device to compete directly with iPhone, which when coupled with dreams of more success from yet another Prada device (and if we're super fortunate, some more Transformers-branded stuff) is part of the master scheme to start down the path.

ENGADGET: LG eyes number two phone maker spot for 2012, premium brand in the works

The organization is battling persistent, if thus far unsuccessful, legal attacks on the Master Settlement Agreement by smaller tobacco companies, who say it is an anticompetitive scheme that allowed the big manufacturers to raise prices indiscriminately.

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Master mystery maestro McBain spins a tale of treacherous mayhem as malignant men and women scheme to steal and then fence the alleged cup from which Socrates drank the executioner's hemlock.

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