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Deals of the Hour / October 7, 2010, 7:40 pm

Peru's Mario Vargas Llosa wins Nobel Literature Prize

STOCKHOLM—Peruvian-Spanish author Mario Vargas Llosa won the 2010 Nobel Literature Prize on Thursday, the Swedish Academy said. The 74-year-old author, a one-time presidential candidate, is best known for works such as "Conversation in the Cathedral" and ... (Source: Global Nation 2010-10-07T11:51:38Z)

Forrest Lucas buys Hilbert mansion for $3M

Hamilton County - It's been on the market for over five years. Now the sprawling mansion that once belonged to Conseco co-founder Stephen Hilbert has been sold. The estate went for $3 million - a fraction of the $35 million it cost to build. Eyewitness ... (Source: msnbc.com 2010-10-06T23:48:39Z)

Forrest and Charlotte Lucas buy Carmel mansion

The founders of Lucas Oil Products Inc. announced Wednesday they are purchasing the former mansion of businessman Stephen Hilbert in Carmel for $3 million. Forrest Lucas, an Indiana native whose company owns the naming rights to Lucas Oil Stadium in ... (Source: Courier-Journal 2010-10-06T23:41:29Z)

Allied Irish To Raise $2 Billion From M&T Stake Sale

LONDON -(Dow Jones)- Allied Irish Banks PLC ( AIB ) said Thursday that it will raise about $2 billion from the sale of its 22.4% stake in M&T Bank Corp. ( MTB ) through a public offering, as it seeks to increase its capital by a deadline set by the Irish ... (Source: FOXBusiness 2010-10-07T09:57:06Z)

Katherine Heigl Shows Off Her Electric Cigarette

(CANVAS STAFF REPORTS) - Former "Grey's Anatomy" star Katherine Heigl appeared on "The Late Show with David Letterman" last week revealing how she is trying to kick her nasty habit of smoking cigarettes - with an electric cigarette. According to Us Weekly ... (Source: My Fox Boston 2010-10-06T15:41:53Z)

Mario Vargas Llosa wins 2010 Nobel Prize in literature

THE PRESTIGIOUS awards were created by Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, and first given out in 1901. The prizes, worth about $1.5 million each, always are handed out Dec. 10, the anniversary of Nobel's death in 1896. Medicine ... (Source: Seattle Times 2010-10-08T02:03:28Z)

2nd UPDATE: Southwest Airlines To Buy Discount Rival AirTran

Southwest Airlines Co. (LUV) on Monday announced plans to buy discount rival AirTran Holdings Inc. (AAI) in a move that would revive its stalled international expansion and intensify pressure on network carriers on the U.S. East Coast. The definitive ... (Source: Wall Street Journal 2010-09-27T12:17:49Z)

Democrats in race see free trade as fair game

Republican Mike Fitzpatrick, then a Pennsylvania congressman, knew at the time that it was going to hurt: It was late that evening in 2005 when he emerged from the House cloakroom and cast one of the final votes ensuring passage of the Central America Free ... (Source: Philadelphia Daily News 2010-10-07T07:12:28Z)

Speculation rife ahead of Nobel Literature announcement

STOCKHOLM—Speculation is rife ahead of the Nobel Literature Prize announcement Thursday afternoon, with many saying an author from either Africa or North America will get the coveted award. The Swedish Academy that awards the prize never reveals the ... (Source: Global Nation 2010-10-07T07:19:37Z)

An Interview with Mario Vargas Llosa

Lima, Peru -- 'This is a story that often repeated itself," Mario Vargas Llosa says. "If a father was a businessman, he was a man who had to be complicit with the dictatorship. It was the only way to prosper, right? And what happens is that the son ... (Source: Wall Street Journal 2010-10-07T13:17:32Z)

The best books in award season? It's all subjective

When the Nobel Prize in literature is announced Thursday, the choice may be - if the last two years are any indication - a confounding one. In 2008, the prize went to Jean-Marie Gustave le Clezio, a French novelist concerned with colonization and its ... (Source: Herald & Review 2010-10-07T00:24:26Z)

Founder of Lucas Oil buys Indy mansion, for a $3M bargain

CARMEL -- The founders of Lucas Oil Products Inc. today said they got a bargain on the former mansion of businessman Stephen Hilbert in Carmel. Forrest Lucas, an Indiana native whose company owns the naming rights to Lucas Oil Stadium in neighboring ... (Source: Star-Press 2010-10-06T19:38:06Z)

TBJ Poll: Southwest buying AirTran good for RDU

Southwest Airlines ' pending purchase of AirTran would be good for Raleigh-Durham International Airport. That's the opinion at least of the vast majority of voters in Triangle Business Journal's latest weekly online poll. Southwest (NYSE: LUV ... (Source: Triangle Business Journal 2010-10-06T14:44:37Z)

UPDATE 2-AIB takes 1.8 pct discount on M&T, post-Santander

DUBLIN/NEW YORK, Oct 6 (Reuters) - Allied Irish Banks , once Ireland's biggest lender, sold its $2.1 billion stake in M&T Bank Corp for a 1.8 percent discount on Wednesday, easing fears that it would have to take a steep discount after Spanish lender ... (Source: Life Style Extra 2010-10-07T00:31:36Z)

Katherine Heigl Fakes It To Quit Smoking

Katherine Heigl has finally kicked the smoking habit… almost.  The former Grey's Anatomy star shared her secret to quitting during her appearance on The Late Show with David Letterman on Tuesday night (September 28). (Source: The Celebrity Truth 2010-09-29T11:32:29Z)

Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa wins 2010 Nobel Prize in literature, 1st South American since 1982

STOCKHOLM - Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa won the 2010 Nobel Prize in literature on Thursday as the academy honored one of the Spanish-speaking world's most acclaimed authors and an outspoken political activist who once ran for president in his tumultuous ... (Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune 2010-10-07T19:15:27Z)

Gap Invites You to 'Recycle Your Blues' to Support Cotton Incorporated's 'COTTON. FROM ...

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 06, 2010 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Gap is encouraging shoppers to gather their old jeans and bring them to a local Gap store where they can do some good and get a new pair of 1969 jeans at a special discount just in time for fall. Today ... (Source: Marketwatch 2010-10-06T13:33:02Z)

Gap supports Cotton. From Blue to Green

Gap is encouraging shoppers to gather their old jeans and bring them to a local Gap store where they can do some good and get a new pair of 1969 jeans at a special discount just in time for fall. Today through October 20, Gap and Cotton Incorporated are ... (Source: Fibre2Fashion 2010-10-07T06:36:40Z)

Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa wins Nobel Prize for Literature

NEW YORK -- Like some other recent Nobel literary laureates, Mario Vargas Llosa, the prolific Peruvian novelist, essayist and playwright and former center-right presidential candidate, has been known as much for his controversial political views as for his ... (Source: Sacramento Bee 2010-10-07T23:33:09Z)

Katherine Heigl Smoke Sticks: Are They Bad For You?

(CBS) Actress Katherine Heigl, 31, best known for her role on "Grey's Anatomy," broke out her electric "smoke stick" Monday night while appearing the "Late Show." She told David Letterman she's tried everything to quit smoking, and this is her latest ... (Source: CBS News 2010-09-29T15:28:43Z)

Southwest Airlines Agrees To Acquire AirTran In $1.4B Deal

Southwest Airlines Co. (LUV) agreed to acquire AirTran Holdings Inc. (AAI) for $1.4 billion in cash and stock, the first major merger among healthy U.S. discount carriers. The proposed deal follows Southwest's failed effort to acquire Denver-based Frontier ... (Source: Wall Street Journal 2010-09-27T11:20:33Z)

Southwest Airlines $1.42 Billion Purchase

(AP) Southwest Airlines has agreed to buy AirTran in a $1.42 billion deal that will combine two of the nation's biggest discount carriers. The two airlines primarily overlap in the Baltimore and Orlando markets. Passengers traveling to and from those ... (Source: CBS News 2010-09-27T23:09:13Z)

JetBlue Has Your Ticket to Mock a Dodger Fan

Want to get away? Southwest may not charge your bag to fly but it can still cost a pretty penny to escape to warm weather. The no frills airline, cool enough to have DirecTV at every seat and a food pantry you can raid whenever you like, is offering ... (Source: msnbc.com 2010-10-05T19:10:40Z)

'It Was A Big, Big Surprise,' New Nobel Laureate Mario Vargas Llosa Tells NPR

As we reported earlier , the Swedish Academy has awarded this year's Nobel Prize in Literature to Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa, currently a visiting lecturer in creative writing in the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University, in recognition ... (Source: NPR News 2010-10-07T21:31:27Z)

'Stop All the Bad Stuff'

At a small, informal breakfast in Midtown New York Tuesday morning, House Republican leader John Boehner said the lame-duck Congress, scheduled roughly for Nov. 15 through Dec. 22, will pass a bill that extends all the George W. Bush tax cuts. And he said ... (Source: Town Hall 2010-10-07T04:27:49Z)

Southwest to buy AirTran for $1.4 billion

NEW YORK -- Southwest Airlines has agreed to buy AirTran in a $1.42 billion deal that will combine two of the nation's biggest discount carriers. The two airlines primarily overlap in the Baltimore and Orlando markets. Passengers traveling to and from ... (Source: San Jose Mercury News 2010-09-28T15:37:03Z)

AIB sells M&T stake at 1.8 pct discount - source

NEW YORK, Oct 6 (Reuters) - Allied Irish Banks, once Ireland's biggest lender, sold its $2.1 billion stake in M&T Bank Corp at a 1.8 percent discount to M&T's closing price on Wednesday, a source with knowledge of the situation said. AIB sold 26.7 million ... (Source: Life Style Extra 2010-10-07T00:10:07Z)

UCLA grad wins 2010 Nobel Prize in chemistry

A UCLA graduate was named Wednesday a winner of the 2010 Nobel Prize in chemistry -- the sixth Bruin grad to win a Nobel Prize. Richard Heck, who graduated from UCLA in 1952 and received his doctorate from the university in 1954, won the prize along with ... (Source: San Jose Mercury News 2010-10-07T14:36:16Z)

Peruvian Writer Mario Vargas Llosa Wins Nobel Prize

(Adds author's comment in 5th and 12th paragraphs and material on relations with Chavez starting in 13th.) Oct. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Mario Vargas Llosa, the Peruvian writer whose work explores the political corruption and military dictatorships of Latin ... (Source: BusinessWeek 2010-10-07T18:53:58Z)

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