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2:00 am
Tue January 10, 2012

TV Producer Profile

One of the most powerful producers in Hollywood is black, female, middle-aged and Muslim. Mara Brock Akil produces, along with her husband,The Game -- one of the biggest hit TV shows on cable. Last year, the couple collaborated on the film "Jumping the Broom.

Business
2:00 am
Tue January 10, 2012

Business News

David Greene has business news.

Business
10:01 pm
Mon January 9, 2012

Hard Day's Delight: A School Of Rock, At The Office

Originally published on Tue January 10, 2012 5:38 am

It's 4 o'clock on a Thursday, and instead of sitting in front of computer screens, a group of software engineers and customer service reps from M5 Networks is in the middle of band practice.

M5 is a telecom company based in New York City that offers Internet phone services. But it offers something else for its employees: At the Rochester, N.Y., office of M5, workers are gearing up for a companywide battle of the bands against other branches.

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Shots - Health Blog
10:01 pm
Mon January 9, 2012

Texas Asks Feds To Delay Health Insurance Rebate Plan

Starting in 2012, health insurance plans in Texas — and most of the rest of the country — may have to cough up millions of dollars in rebates to customers.

The rebates will come from health plans that spend too much on administrative costs instead of medical care. The change is part of the national health overhaul law, the Affordable Care Act.

But state officials in Texas and 16 other states have asked to push back the requirement for a few years.

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Law
10:01 pm
Mon January 9, 2012

Supreme Court To Consider FCC Indecency Case

Credit Joe Cavaretta / AP
Singer Cher accepts a lifetime achievement award at the MGM Grand Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas during the Billboard Music Awards show in 2002. Her use of an obscenity in her acceptance speech led the FCC to fine broadcaster Fox.

Originally published on Tue January 10, 2012 3:58 pm

Dirty words return to the usually staid Supreme Court Tuesday. For a second time in three years, the justices are hearing arguments about a Federal Communications Commission regulation adopted during the Bush administration that allows the agency to punish broadcasters with stiff fines for the fleeting use of vulgar language.

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