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Access Industries, a holding company founded by oil baron Len Blavatnik (pictured above), won the auction to buy Warner Music Group Corp. for $3.3 billion in cash, the companies announced Friday morning.  Blavatnik edged out more than a dozen other biddors including Sony Music Group, supermarket magnate Ron Burkle, Platinum Equity, Live Nation Entertainment and investment firm Kohlberg Kravis & Roberts, whose unsolicited offer late last year kicked off the auction process.  Warner Music Group is the home of artists such as Green Day, Metallica and Bruno Mars.

Elite models are prospering as consumers continue to purchase luxury goods.  Checkout the list of highest paid super models in the World.  Pictured below is Gisele Bundchen, a Brazilian model and occasional film actress.  See what other super models made the list.  You won’t see any bra and pantie MySpace posing avatar pics on this list.  Full List after the jump.

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Top 200 Album Sales (Top 10 Hip Hop/R&B)

ESPN writes:

CHICAGO — Chicago Bulls guard Derrick Rose is the youngest Most Valuable Player award-winner in the history of the NBA.

The 22-year-old Rose was officially announced as MVP on Tuesday after leading the Bulls to a 62-20 record and No. 1 seed in the playoffs.

Rose got 1,182 points and 113 first-place votes from a panel of media voters, supplanting Wes Unseld as the youngest to win the award with a runaway win. Orlando’s Dwight Howard (643 points) finished second, Miami’s LeBron James was third, the Lakers’ Kobe Bryant was fourth and Oklahoma City star Kevin Durant finished fifth.

The Chicago-born point guard had a breakout third season, averaging 25 points, 7.7 assists and 4.1 rebounds. After a summer with the U.S. National team, Rose made a significant leap.

During the Bulls’ media day in September, Rose wondered aloud in front of the media why he couldn’t win the MVP award. Eight months later, Rose answered his own question.
“Back in training camp when I said I wanted to be MVP, I wasn’t trying to be cocky at all,” Rose said Tuesday. “I knew that I put a lot of hard work in over the summer in the offseason, and I just wanted to push myself.”

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Allen, TX — A Texas high school is building a $60 million football stadium.

Most of the people living in Allen voted in favor of a $119 million bond for the project. Allen High School’s stadium holds about 14,000 fans but it’s a tight fit believe it or not.

The marching band has more than 600 members, which makes it the largest in the nation. The new stadium will have 18,000 seats and is scheduled to open in 2012.

The Great state of Texas (home of George W. Bush) obviously is not a victim of the recession that has hit hard in cities like Detroit, MI which is scheduled to close half of its public schools (DPS) creating classrooms with 60:1 Student to Teacher ratio for 2012 school year.

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