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Newsmakers: Apr. 26-May. 4, 2011

Vancouver’s pot-friendly mayor, Dr. Seuss’s trouble-making turtle, and Obama’s ‘really big stick’

British parliamentary committee says Rupert Murdoch “not fit” to run international firm

At 81, Australian media mogul Rupert Murdoch has been told by a parliamentary committee in Britain that he’s not fit to run an international company, Reuters reports. Lawmakers in the committee were studying Murdoch’s News Corp. practice of illegal phone hacking and other irregularities at its many media subsidiaries, a scandal that has dragged on for months.