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Lecture review: Authors Chabon, Waldman discuss their marriage (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) - Framed by two potted plants on the Carnegie Music Hall stage last night, Ayelet Waldman and Michael Chabon offered an unusually intimate portrait of a marriage.

Wedding Bells For AGL, Origin? (Australasian Investment Review via Yahoo!7 Finance) - After a month of silence Origin Energy says it has started talks with rival AGL Energy on a merger to form a company that would supply power and gas to half of eastern Australia's households.

iTunes TV Review - Degrassi: The Next Generation 6.11 - "The Bitterest Pill" (The Mac Observer) - Forgive my ignorance, as I'm not very understanding of funeral protocol, but the thing they do after a burial is called a wake, right? If I'm right, we open this episode at JT's wake, where pictures of his headshot litter various surfaces

Movie Review: 'Babel' Descends into Babble (The Epoch Times) - Babel is a thoughtful, heavy film that twists, pokes and prods ideas of multiculturalism and cultural clashes. It skips among four stories with interrelated characters across three continents, divi...

Movie review: 'The Messengers' (Metromix.com) - The Pang brothers, Danny and Oxide, arrive on American screens with high and horrific expectations, trailing a bloody body of Hong Kong ghost stories (like 2002's ''The Eye'') that the twins have written and directed. A New York Times magazine profile last summer bumped the hype up a notch.

Online retailers discover power of user-generated video clips (International Herald Tribune) - Whether the trend will help build customer traffic and sales over the long term remains a question.

Bears, Colts fans share their undying devotion (Herald & Review) - DECATUR - Duane Chandler admits he can never remember a time when he wasn't a Bears fan and owns a Mike Ditka autographed - oddly enough - baseball to prove it.

Oliver Hudson lives by his own 'Rules' (USA Today) - On the new CBS sitcom Rules of Engagement (9:30 ET/PT tonight), Oliver Hudson plays a newly engaged New Yorker. During the show's initial run, we won't learn how Hudson's character, Adam, met his fiance, Jennifer (Bianca Kajlich), nor how he popped the question.

Sprint, Best, Garmin Worst in Super Bowl XLI Advertising According to Kellogg School of Management Faculty and MBA ... (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance) - K-Fed serving up fries. Amateur commercial directors. But no monkeys in suits. This year's Super Bowl ads offered "safe" humor, and Sprint came away with the win. The telecommunications giant earned an A with this year's highest score from the Kellogg School Super Bowl Advertising Review.

Robbins's Love Demon Returns in City Ballet Revival of `Dybbuk' (Bloomberg.com) - Feb. 5 (Bloomberg) -- Seven devout young men from a long- ago shtetl dance, arms linked, creating an impenetrable wall with their black-clad bodies. Their movement is both angular and sinuous, mirroring Leonard Bernstein's score, which couples modern dissonance with undulating ethnic references.