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• 7. FINANCIAL PIONEER DIES AT 80
• Muriel "Mickie" Siebert started as a trainee on Wall Street and became the first woman to own a seat on the New York Stock Exchange.
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• 8. GOING TO THE SUPER BOWL? PACK A PARKA
• The Farmers' Almanac predicts a blizzard will hit the Northeast before the NFL title game at open-air MetLife Stadium in New Jersey.
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• 9. MILEY CYRUS GRABS THE LIMELIGHT
• The provocative pop star shimmies, slithers and sways -- and sings, too -- in stealing the show at the MTV Video Music Awards.
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• 10. NADAL RIDING 10-MATCH WIN STREAK INTO US OPEN
• The Spaniard carries a lot of momentum into the tournament but could be hindered by an ailing left knee.
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AP News in Brief
Navalny, Russia's charismatic opposition leader, shakes up Moscow mayor campaign
• MOSCOW (AP) -- A motley gaggle of hipsters, mothers with children and two babushkas with hair dyed bright red gather to listen to something they haven't heard in over a decade: a stump speech for Moscow mayor.
• Alexei Navalny, the anti-corruption blogger and leader of Russia's protest movement, is trying to take his following offline and into the street, waging a traditional campaign of hand-shaking and leaflet drives to win voters outside his base of the young and web-savvy.
• Navalny has little hope of defeating incumbent Sergei Sobyanin -- but polls show his star is rising. And if he gets a big chunk of the vote, the Kremlin will face pressure to show leniency over his five-year prison sentence, and the grassroots protest movement that fizzled out after Vladimir Putin's return to the presidency last year may gain new wind.
• Sobyanin, meanwhile, is playing the regal incumbent: Throughout the campaign, the Kremlin-backed politician has been all but invisible, allowing the constant drone of jackhammers or whiff of fresh paint that are signs of a Moscow makeover to re (Continued on page 22)
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