Craig Becker stepped down from the board in December after serving under a recess appointment by President Obama since March 2010.

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Across the board, Johnny Damon has impressive career numbers — Hall of Fame worthy, he says — reflecting a rare combination of longevity and well-rounded skills.

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Global media tycoon Rupert Murdoch received a strong endorsement from the board of directors of his News Corp. on Wednesday, a day after British lawmakers investigating a phone hacking scandal said Murdoch was “not a fit person” to run a major international company.

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IT DOESN’T ADD up. Mitt Romney, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, inadvertently added some detail Sunday night to his promise to lower individual income tax rates by 20 percent across the board. Overheard by reporters as he spoke to a group of donors, Mr. Romney gave for the first time a glimpse of how — or so he claims — he would accomplish this rate-lowering without losing revenue. “I’m going to probably eliminate, for high-income people, the second-home mortgage deduction,” Mr. Romney said. Deductions for state and local income and property taxes could be on the chopping block as well. “By virtue of doing that, we’ll get the same tax revenue, but we’ll have lower rates,” he explained. Read full article > >

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IT DOESN’T ADD up. Mitt Romney, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, inadvertently added some detail Sunday night to his promise to lower individual income tax rates by 20 percent across the board. Overheard by reporters as he spoke to a group of donors, Mr. Romney gave for the first time a glimpse of how — or so he claims — he would accomplish this rate-lowering without losing revenue. “I’m going to probably eliminate, for high-income people, the second-home mortgage deduction,” Mr. Romney said. Deductions for state and local income and property taxes could be on the chopping block as well. “By virtue of doing that, we’ll get the same tax revenue, but we’ll have lower rates,” he explained. Read full article > >

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President Obama’s landmark health-care initiative, long touted as a means to control costs, will actually add more than $340 billion to the nation’s budget woes over the next decade, according to a new study by a Republican member of the board that oversees Medicare financing. Read full article > >

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Dereck Chisora and David Haye may face life bans for their Munich brawl, the British Boxing Board of Control’s Robert Smith confirms.

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Chisora & Haye may face life bans

Iain Duncan Smith says there could have been “chaos” if ministers had overruled the board of RBS and vetoed a £963,000 share bonus for its boss.

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NHL commissioner Gary Bettman announced Monday night that the board of governors have voted to adopt a four-conference alignment beginning next year. Two conferences will have eight teams and the other two will have seven. The Capitals will play in a division that includes Carolina, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, New Jersey and the New York Rangers and Islanders. Clubs in the six-team divisions will play each other six times, three times at home and three times on the road. Read full article > >

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Gary Bettman says NHL to adopt four-conference alignment

Edgar M. Bronfman Jr., a major player in the music industry, is stepping down as chairman of the board.

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National Board of Review also gave Scorsese Best Director.

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National Board of Review also gave Scorsese Best Director.

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Arlington County taxicab riders will pay 10 cents more per mile in 2012, the County Board decided Saturday, and passengers younger than 12 who accompany a full-fare customer will get a free ride. The fare increase was intended to help cabbies who have gone more than three years without one. Originally the board planned to raise the “drop fee,” the charge when the meter starts running, by 25 cents and require all 765 licensed cabs to accept credit cards. About 90 percent of the taxis accept credit cards. Read full article > >

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A move by Congress may allow members of the board that oversees Reagan National and Dulles International airports to be removed by their appointing bodies and increase the size of the panel, which is supervising the construction of the Metrorail extension to Loudoun County . Rep. Frank R. Wolf (R-Va.) has pushed for legislation that would expand the board of the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority from 13 to 17. Under his plan, Virginia would get two new appointments and Maryland and the District would each get one additional member. Read full article > >

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Transportation bill would expand board of Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority

Borrowing costs for European governments jumped across the board Tuesday, and new data confirmed that the region’s economy is slowing , evidence on two key fronts that leaders of the euro area have yet to contain its stubborn financial crisis. The rise in interest rates hit Spain, Italy and — perhaps most worrying — France. French borrowing costs outstripped German costs, which serve as a regional benchmark, by the most since the adoption of the euro more than a decade ago. Read full article > >

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Jump in euro-zone interest rates hits France