• On the day of my hip hop tour of Gabon, the government sponsored a free streetside concert with Amenem, Tina and Ba'Ponga warming up the stage for Senegalese-born U.S hip-hop star Akon.

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  • Boss Steve Fallon - a former Cambridge star - knows the U's will be desperate to avoid defeat even at this early stage of the season.

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  • Should United liquidate, the 13 non-U.S. members of the route-sharing Star Alliance will be among the biggest victims.

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  • Fijian golfer Vijay Singh also won the PGA Championship in August, and finished the year as a member of the international squad that gave the star-studded U.S. team a severe drubbing in the President's Cup in Australia.

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  • William "Kip" Ward, the first four-star general to command U.S. military operations in Africa, was demoted for excessive spending from duty at U.S. Africa Command (Africom).

    CNN: U.S. General in charge of Horn of Africa fired

  • The Roundtable featured brief presentations concerning the findings of a blue-ribbon studyU.S. Forces on the Golan Heights: An Assessment of the Benefits and Costs, the study was signed by eleven high-ranking, former U.S. national security officials -- including five retired four-star general officers, three of whom served as members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

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  • Changing Mexico's energy laws is widely seen as an important test for a country that captured the imagination of investors for linking its economy in a free-trade deal with the U.S. in the mid-1990s, but which saw its star dim to other emerging markets like China and Brazil in recent years.

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  • Changing Mexico's energy laws is widely seen as an important test for a country that captured the imagination of investors for linking its economy in a free-trade deal with the U.S. in the mid-1990s, but which saw its star dim relative to other emerging markets like China and Brazil in recent years.

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  • Energy Star exemptions: Federal agencies are required to lease space in U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ENERGY STAR-labeled buildings.

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  • For the most part the better players in Asia have proved that they can be stars in the U.S. Suzuki has been an All-Star each of his six seasons with Seattle.

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  • This is three-star Michelin Chef Pierre Gagnaire's U.S. debut and his second restaurant within the Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group.

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  • Winfrey will ask the disgraced cycling star to address the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency's report, which said there was overwhelming evidence he was directly involved in a sophisticated doping program, the statement said.

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  • Of the 58 hotels, 28 restaurants and 23 spas in the U.S. that earned the prestigious Forbes Travel Guide Five-Star award for 2013, just six properties achieved top honors across the board.

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  • David McKiernan, the American four-star general who in October consolidated control over almost all U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, has been adjusting U.S. tactics.

    CNN: Analysis: U.S. reviewing Afghanistan policy

  • In the hedge-fund world and the U.S. mutual fund business, star managers like Peter Lynch, George Soros and Julian Robertson became household names on the heels of their impressive investment performances.

    FORBES: Constellation manager

  • Notes: Williams' seven 3-pointers in the first quarter was one shy of the NBA record for a period, set by former Milwaukee All-Star Michael Redd, Williams' teammate on the 2008 U.S. Olympic team.

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  • Take Mexican beer heiress Maria Asuncion Aramburuzabala, who married U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Tony Garza last February in a star-studded affair outside of Mexico City.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • The U.S. players kick off their Group C campaign against the star-studded England team in Rustenburg on June 12 boosted by last year's showing at the Confederations Cup in South Africa, where they bravely went down 3-2 in the final to superpowers Brazil after beating European champions Spain 2-0 in the semis.

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  • Those strategic realities were described authoritatively in a study published in Commentary magazine in 1994 prepared by the Center for Security Policy by eleven distinguished American security policy practitioners, five of them retired four-star flag officers -- including three former members of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, Marine Corps Commandant Gen.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

  • But the recent celebrated visits of Americans such as Google Chairman Eric Schmidt and former NBA Star Dennis Rodman show the appeal the U.S. still has -- and the soft power it can leverage.

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  • Such a rating means cars provide little protection in serious head-on wrecks, compared to four- or five-star rated cars, which are virtually the minimum that consumers in the U.S. and Europe buy.

    NPR: AP IMPACT: Cars Made In Brazil Are Deadly

  • Maze heads both categories ahead of the resumption of the series in the German town of Garmisch-Partenkirchen next weekend, and looks destined to capture the title from U.S. star Lindsey Vonn.

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  • Home Star legislation making its way through the U.S. Senate may give the home-performance industry a big shot in the arm.

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  • U.S. star Sloane Stephens set up a last eight clash with compatriot Serena Williams following her 6-3 6-4 win over Sweden's Sofia Arvidsson.

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  • He was selling that day in SoHo: selling the All-Star Game, selling the MLS, selling the concept of the "Beckham Effect" on the U.S. Soccer.

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