WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2011
HOROSCOPES
Because the stars know things we don't.
Aries (March 21-April 19)
Today is an 8
Confirm travel reservations, and set the itinerary.
Partners offer the perfect support. Make love a top priority. Express your affection.
Taurus (April 20-May 20)
Today is a 9
You're on top of your game and your intuition is right on target. Take advantage of your newly gained confidence to accomplish a particular dream.
Gemini (May 21-June 21)
Today is a 6
The answer you've been looking for gets revealed.
Consult with your team,
and set the structure to grow your harvest. Postpone travel. Power and luck come tomorrow.
There's more money coming your way, if you're willing to do the work. You find inspiration in a person or a book from far away. Love's your motivation.
cancer (June 22-July 22)
Today is an 8
Leo (July 23-Aug. 22)
Today in a 7
Success is attainable, once you agree on the course of action. You know what to do. Listen to your heart. A perfectly gorgeous moment comes out of it.
Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)
Today is an 8
A friend's help is appreciated. Your network is your true wealth. Everything you want or need can be found there. Share resources and partnership.
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)
Today is a 6
Llora (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)
Today is a 6
Patience comes in handy,
especially around finances.
Revise the blueprint (again).
There's more work coming along with some good recommendations. Stick with the plan.
Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)
Today is a 9
You're getting better with age. The more you listen, the farther you'll get. Resist the impulse to run away. Give it all you've got, if only for love.
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Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec.21)
Today is a 9
Add a beautiful touch to
your workplace. Flowers?
Your calming presence is
greatly appreciated. Accept
a fun challenge. Anything's
possible.
Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)
Today is a 9
Continue to repay obligations. The perfect solution appears. Get the word out about it. The competition makes you pick up the pace.
Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb.18)
Today is a 9
The work's hard, but profitable. Collaboration's a good idea, and there are talented players in your network. This could even be enjoyable.
Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20)
Today is a 9
Direct traffic: You know where it needs to go. You've got energy, a positive attitude and stamina. Use them for your own good (especially in romance). Smile.
CROSSWORD
ACROSS
ACROSS
1 Houston acronym
5 Stern-ward
8 Streetcar
12 Winged
13 — goo gai pan
14 Like a moray
15 End of an illness
17 Performances
18 Syco-phants
19 Implant
21 Help
22 Entrance
23 Melody
26 Allow
28 Wild West show
31 "Star —"
33 Flop
35 Ginormous
36 Un-spoken
38 Wager
40 Decay
41 Rhyming tributes
43 Airport overseer (Abr. )
45 Move up and down
47 Busy
51 Gumbo need
52 Flinched
54 Nasty stinger
55 Cistern
56 Journalist Lisa
57 Caustic chemicals
58 Acapulco gold
59 London gallery name
DOWN
1 — a soul
(nobody)
2 Sheltered
Solution time: 21 mins.
Yesterday's answer 12-7
23 Lawyer (Abbr.)
24 Play-wright Levin
25 Source of help
27 Bath-room fixture
29 Id counter-part
30 Morsel for Dobbin
32 Abducts
34 Actually
37 Sleuth, for short
39 Mexican entree
42 Electronic control system, briefly
44 At an angle
45 Cheek by —
46 Fine
48 Hip bones
49 Outlet
50 Advantage
53 Listener
ODD NEWS
Malik's lawyer, Ayaz Bilawala, denied the nude cover photo was authentic and said Malik was wearing underwear throughout the entire shoot. He sent notice to the magazine and was filing papers in the Mumbai High Court demanding all copies of the magazine be removed from newsstands, he said. The suit was also seeking 100 million rupees ($2 million) in damages.
In a second photo, she is lying on a camouflage military helmet and in a third she is wearing what appears to be a green ammunition belt and pretending to pull the pin out of a grenade with her teeth. She appears to be topless in those images.
In the magazine's cover photo, Malik is shown wearing no clothing, but with her arms and legs discreetly positioned to keep her covered. She has the letters ISI stencilled on her arm, representing Pakistan's powerful spy agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence agency.
The photo essay appears to make light of the military rivalry between India and Pakistan, nuclear-armed neighbors who have fought three wars.
Pakistani actress sues magazine over provocative photos
ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW DELHI — Pakistani actress Veena Malik is suing a popular Indian men's magazine for millions of dollars, accusing it of publishing photos she says were doctored to make her appear nude, her lawyer said Monday.
Malik's racy images in the December issue of FHM India has triggered a fury across her conservative Islamic country, with one cleric calling them a "shame for all Muslims."
FHM India editor Kabeer Sharma insisted the photos were authentic and said he had just come out of a meeting with the magazine's lawyers where they watched the video of the photo session proving his case.
"She has been cheated, and there has been tampering, and the photographs have been morphed," he said. "She has not posed in the manner in which she has been shown."
He also disputed the magazine's assertion that it possessed a video of the shoot that would prove the photos were real.
"The allegations are entirely false and we are investigating various options, including a countersuit," he said.
"It's a considered decision on our part not to make that video public because of the nature of the video," he said.
Sharma said the magazine had received the legal notice.
Malik courted controversy last year when she participated in India's "Bigg Boss" reality show, where minor celebrities are locked in a house together. Conservative Pakistani clerics lambasted her both for appearing on a show in arch-rival India and for appearing to canoodle with an Indian actor in the house.
SUDOKU
By Dave Green
Conceptis Sudoku
12/07
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TELEVISION
NBC stations team up with nonprofit stations
NBC affiliates in Los Angeles, Chicago and Philadelphia will work with non-commercial outfits in those cities — KPCC public radio, the Chicago Reporter and WHY public radio and television, respectively — while all of the networks owned-and-operated stations will get early access to investigative reports from the independent, nonprofit newsroom Pro Publica. The arrangement comes as Comcast moves to fulfill its commitment to federal regulators to strengthen local, public-interest programming in the wake of its purchase of NBCUniversal earlier this year.
with nonprofit stations LOS ANGELES — Ten NBC-owned television stations across the nation will team with nonprofit news outlets in an attempt to beef up their enterprise and analytical reporting, the network announced Monday.
The partnerships also continue the trend toward content sharing throughout the media industry, as operators try to trim the high costs that come with producing stories on their own. The New York Times, for example, has expanded its editions in Chicago, San Francisco and other locations via publishing partnerships with nonprofit news outlets. In Los Angeles, Pasadena-based KPCC-FM (89.3) and NBCA each plan to use content produced by the other aid, in some cases, stories that the two outlets will develop together. Details and a starting time for the joint content programming remain to be worked out.
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KPCC Chief Executive Bill Davis said the for-profit station and his nonprofit radio outfit will be able to expand the size of their audiences and the reach of their reporting. "We can get to the kind of investigative and enterprise stories we wouldn't be able to singularly," Davis said.
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