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GEORGE SOROS:
ROCKETING OIL PRICE IS A BUBBLE:
Speculators are largely responsible for driving crude prices to their peaks in recent weeks and the record oil price now looks like a bubble, George Soros has warned.
The billionaire investor's comments came only days after the oil price soared to a record high of $135 a barrel amid speculation that crude could soon be catapulted towards the $200 mark.
LBN-BOOK NEWS:
***Francis Bean Cobain - the 15-year-old daughter of rockers Courtney Love and Kurt Cobain - would have been aborted in the womb if Love's handlers had had their way, an upcoming book claims.
In "Bumping Into Geniuses," a memoir about the music business, Danny Goldberg, former CEO of Warner Bros. Records who also managed Kurt's band Nirvana, reveals how he and a group of Love's inner circle - worried about her heroin use during pregnancy - plotted an intervention.
LBN-BUSINESS INSIDER:
***Browser developer Mozilla will soon release Firefox 3.0, which will feature a few tricks that could change the way people organize and find the Web sites they visit most frequently.
LBN-HOLLYWOOD INSIDER:
***The most recent Indiana Jones film more than recouped its big budget with an estimated $311 million in global box office sales through the long weekend, according to studio estimates Monday.
Families went in droves to catch "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull," a PG-13 adventure starring Harrison Ford as the whip-cracking archaeologist who took 19 years to return to the big screen.
***Warner Brothers Entertainment is trying to boost DVD sagging sales by releasing companion projects to its films exclusively on DVD.
***At the closing ceremony of the 61st Cannes Film Festival, the red carpet was overrun by teenagers when the French film "The Class" ("Entre les Murs") won the Palme d'Or.
***New releases from Usher, 3 Doors Down, Esperanza Spalding, Cyndi Lauper and the Ting Tings.
LBN-COMMENTARY BY HELEN BENEDICT:
Women are the fastest-growing group of veterans, yet the Department of Veterans Affairs lacks the staff to deal with sexual assaults, let alone assault combined with trauma.
FIRST MLK GRANDCHILD BORN:
The first grandchild of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was born Sunday in Atlanta.
The girl, named Yolanda Renee King, is the daughter of Martin Luther King III and his wife, Arndrea Waters King, the family said in a statement.
WHO READS THE LBN E-LERT?
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A FEW TREMORS IN OPRAHLAND:
Oprah Winfrey is still the queen of all media, but her crown is beginning to look a bit tarnished.
The average audience for "The Oprah Winfrey Show" has fallen nearly 7 percent this year, according to Nielsen Media Research -- its third straight year of decline.
"Oprah's Big Give," an ABC philanthropic reality show, beat every program on television except "American Idol" in its premiere week this winter, but steadily lost nearly one-third of its audience during the rest of its eight-week run, according to Nielsen.
The circulation of "O," The Oprah Magazine, has fallen by more than 10 percent in the last three years, according to the Audit Bureau of Circulations, and the magazine is now seeking a new editor in chief after the announced retirement of its longtime steward, Amy Gross.
LBN-SPORTS INSIDER:
***Scott Dixon won the Indianapolis 500 on Sunday, but he said that on his final laps he was worried about everything that could go wrong with his racecar.
LBN-OVERHEARD:
***Jennifer Aniston and John Mayer have been together longer than they're letting on.
It seemed odd that Aniston was so public with her affection for Mayer so fast, but a source says they were quietly dating for three months prior to coming out earlier this month as a couple in Miami.
***Paul McCartney received an honorary Doctorate of Music from Yale University this afternoon.
DID YOU KNOW?
***From 1939 to 1942, there was an undersea post office in the Bahamas.
***Levan, Utah, got its name from "navel" -- levan spelled backwards.
It was named this because it is in the center of the state.
***The Hollywood sign, first erected in 1923, was originally "Hollywoodland."
***The Mall of America, located in Bloomington, Minnesota is so big that it can hold 24,336 school buses.
***The Sears Tower in Chicago contains enough steel to build 50,000 automobiles.
LBN-QUOTE:
"The question is, should we persevere and go forward or simply hide in our offices and duck our heads.
No way is the Mexican government going to back down in such a fight."
--FELIPE CALDERÓN, president of Mexico, on his campaign against drug traffickers.
LBN-HISTORY:
On May 26, 1868, the Senate impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson ended with his acquittal as the Senate fell one vote short of the two-thirds majority required for conviction.
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