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  • Kumar is going to the White House. No kidding

    Kalpen Suresh Modi (born April 23, 1977), known by his stage name Kal Penn, is an American actor and film producer, as well as the incoming Associate Director in the White House Office of Public Liaison.

  • General Motors Corp. is teaming with Segway Inc., maker of the upright, self-balancing scooters, to build a new type of two-wheeled vehicle designed to move easily through congested urban streets.GM is betting PUMA's more car-like traits — an enclosed compartment and top speed of 35 miles per hour — will lead to better results. GM didn't say how much the machines would cost, but research chief Larry Burns said owners would spend one-third to one-fourth of the cost of a traditional vehicle.
  • I don'T know why ppl diss this track, I think it came out funny, and quite ok for an Eminem first single of a new album (compared to my name is, the real slim shady, without me, …)!
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  • I just watched lord of war yesterday and this guy is the real lord on which N Cage character was based on.

    Viktor Anatolyevich Bout (born 13 January 1967) is a Soviet former GRU major and arms dealer.According to Lee S. Wolosky, he was "the most powerful player in the trafficking of illegal arms." Bout seems to have sold to any group that could pay him for his weapons. US and UN officials say that Bout smuggled thousands upon thousands of semi-automatic rifles, grenade launchers, other weapons and ammunition to for African conflicts in Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Libya, Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland and Uganda. Bout is said to have had at least five passports and several aliases.While officially a fugitive Bout was hired by U.S. military and its contractors in Iraq, NATO forces in Afghanistan, and the United Nations in Sudan.