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http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=84471526&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A scholar's son was convicted Thursday of using online aliases to harass and discredit his father's detractors in a heated academic debate over the origins of the Dead Sea Scrolls.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=84471524&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Michigan environmental regulators said Thursday they had reached a settlement with two Upper Peninsula iron mines over unauthorized discharges of ground-up waste rock from a disposal pipeline.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=84471517&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The value of Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer's compensation package rose 6 percent in fiscal 2010, as the world's largest software maker began to benefit from a resurgence of corporate spending on technology.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=84471513&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A San Francisco group that defends online free speech is taking on a Las Vegas company it says is shaking down news-sharing Internet users through more than 140 copyright infringement lawsuits filed this year.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=84471511&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK American International Group finally has a plan to exit the biggest of the Wall Street bailouts a month before midterm elections. But much as embattled Democrats might wish otherwise, the book on TARP won't close anytime soon.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=84471510&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A judge has ruled that the captain of an English soccer club just isn't famous enough to be allowed to skip jury duty.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=84471095&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The government said Thursday it raised $2.25 billion from the sale of trust-preferred shares that it held in Citigroup Inc., moving to recoup the costs incurred in the $700 billion financial bailout.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=84471069&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The attorney for Meg Whitman's former housekeeper released a copy Thursday of a purported 2003 letter that she says shows the Republican gubernatorial candidate knew all along that the maid might be an illegal immigrant.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=84470999&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK An American tourist was shot in the back of the head in Mexican waters on Thursday after being ambushed by armed boaters, a Texas sheriff said. It happened on a lake where run-ins with pirates had already put fishermen and Texas officials on alert.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=84470939&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The Olympics of the video game world opened Thursday with gamers from 58 countries marching through the Los Angeles Convention Center holding their nations' flags.