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gammons_suffers_aneurysm.jpgGammons' Wife: Peter is 'Resting Comfortably' (ESPN)
"Peter is resting comfortably after surgical repair of a brain aneurysm," Gammons' wife, Gloria, said in a statement. The 61-year-old Gammons, a longtime ESPN baseball analyst and Hall of Fame journalist, suffered the aneurysm Tuesday morning near his home on Cape Cod in Massachusetts. He was airlifted to a Boston hospital, where the surgery was performed.

Viacom May Give MTV Unit to Brad Grey (NYP)
Grey, the former talent boss who became head of Paramount last year, could add the film divisions of the MTV and Nickelodeon cable networks to his portfolio under a plan being considered at corporate parent Viacom.

Google To Launch Competitor To PayPal (WSJ via Geek.com)
Based on a news report in the Wall Street Journal and backed up by claims earlier this month by investment bank RBC Capital Markets, Google's rival to PayPal, called GBuy, should be going into public beta sometime this week.

CNN Gets Ratings Jump for Angelina Jolie Interview (USAT)
CNN attracted 1.33 million viewers for Anderson Cooper's interview last week with the U.N. goodwill ambassador and new mother of Brad Pitt's baby, more than doubling the audience Cooper typically gets for his nightly newscast.

Baylor University Accused of Submitting False Info for USNWR College Rankings (Inside Higher Ed)
A researcher with the magazine says that officials with Baylor University School of Law have repeatedly submitted misleading answers to the magazine's questions involving LSAT scores and grade-point averages of first-year students. Baylor officials, meanwhile, insist they've done nothing wrong.

Russian Court Accuses Teen Magazines of Propagating Sexual Activity (Pravda)
Deputy Prosecutor General Sergei Fridinsky said in a letter to education officials that the magazines Molotok, Cool and Cool Girl "exploit underage readers' interest toward sex," and asked that a suit be filed to have the publications shut down. Molotok "regularly publishes materials that pervert underage readers and provoke them to begin sexual life early," Fridinsky wrote.

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