MONTREAL - The long-anticipated sale of Rio Tinto’s (LSE:RIO) aluminum packaging division has run into tight credit markets that could be hampering efforts to sell the business to one buyer, industry analysts said Friday.

Wimbledon champion Venus Williams has withdrawn from next week’s Montreal Cup, the WTA Tour said on Friday.

Ross Marowits, The Canadian Press July 25, 2008 - 5:17 p.m. MONTREAL - The long-anticipated sale of Rio Tinto’s (LSE:RIO) aluminum packaging division has run into tight credit markets that could be hampering efforts to sell the business to one buyer, industry analysts said Friday.

Rob Cohen knows how to walk away from a franchise. The director behind such high-octane hits as XXX and The Fast and the Furious wasn’t involved in what he calls the ”lackluster sequels” to his movies that studios churned out without him.

I suppose it seems absurd to accuse a funeral-home comedy of being lifeless. But any episode of Six Feet Under had more sharp, mordant wit and freewheeling derangement than you’ll find in Just Buried.

Nazism in America - Curse of the Bush Nazis: I bet you thought that Nazi was a religious term pertaining to the Nazarenes. Wrong! The Nazis are the Niggardly Asinine Zionist Idiots, arising from the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion and the Plans of the Synagogue of Satan.

VANCOUVER — It’s not getting any easier for quarterback Anthony Calvillo and the Montreal Alouettes. Montreal’s high-octane passing attack has faced solid CFL defences the last two weeks, losing at home to the Calgary Stampeders, then on the road Saturday to the Saskatchewan Roughriders.

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