Wikinews Shorts: November 2, 2007
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==Baseball's Dodgers hire Joe Torre==
[[w:Joe Torre|Joe Torre]] will be the new manager of the [[w:Los Angeles Dodgers|Los Angeles Dodgers]] [[w:Major League Baseball|Major League Baseball]] franchise, according to a team announcement on Thursday. Torre had been manager of the [[w:New York Yankees|New York Yankees]] since 1996.

[[w:Grady Little|Grady Little]] had been the Dodgers manager until Tuesday when he resigned from the team with one year remaining on his three-year contract.

'''Sources'''
*{{source|url=http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/baseball/mlb/wires/11/01/2010.ap.bbn.dodgers.torre.6th.ld.writethru.0941/
|title=Torre hired to manage Dodgers
|author=Associated Press
|pub=Sports Illustrated
|date=November 1, 2007}}
*{{source|url=http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20071101&content_id=2290648&vkey=news_mlb&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb
|title=It's official: Dodgers hire Torre
|author=Ken Gumick
|pub=mlb.com
|date=November 1, 2007}}
*{{source|url=http://www.reuters.com/article/sportsNews/idUSL0101542520071101
|title=FACTBOX: Los Angeles Dodgers manager Joe Torre
|author=
|pub=Reuters
|date=November 1, 2007}}

==S&P CNX Nifty hits all-time high of 6,000==
[[w:S&P CNX Nifty|S&P CNX Nifty]], the leading [[w:stock market index|index]] for large companies on the [[w:National Stock Exchange of India|National Stock Exchange of India]], reached a historic high of 6000 points before dropping by Thursday's closing to 5,866.45 points.

The recent successes in [[India]] stock markets raised concerns that stocks are being valued too highly, causing an [[w:Economic bubble|economic bubble]] that could be subject to correction.

'''Sources'''
*{{source|url=http://www.business-standard.com/common/storypage.php?autono=303002&leftnm=0&subLeft=0&chkFlg=
|title=Nifty touches intra-day high
|author=BS Reporter/Mumbai
|pub=Business Standard
|date=November 2, 2007}}
*{{source|url=http://www.zeenews.com/articles.asp?aid=404776&sid=BUS&ssid=52&news=Nifty%20joins%20the%20party,%20hits%206000%20for%20first%20time%20ever
|title=Nifty hits 6000 for first time ever
|author=Zeenews Bureau
|pub=ZeeNews (India)
|date=November 2, 2007}}

==American screenwriters' strike set for Monday==
Writers for [[United States|American]] film and television productions are scheduled to walk off the job Monday leaving entertainment programming struggling for scripts. The [[w:Writers Guild of America|Writers Guild of America]] is demanding that their members receive payments for "new media" distribution of their works such as Internet downloads.

The union's contract expired on Wednesday. Production of many television series and films will continue in the short term because of scripts that are already written. However, a strike will have an immediate impact on talk shows whose writing relies on current events. The last strike by the Writers Guild in 1988 lasted nearly half a year.

'''Sources'''
*{{source|url=http://www.cbc.ca/arts/tv/story/2007/11/02/strike-screenwriters.html
|title=Hollywood screenwriters set to strike Monday
|author=
|pub=CBC News
|date=November 2, 2007}}
*{{source|url=http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/TV/11/02/hollywood.talks/index.html
|title= Hollywood horror show: Writers to strike
|author=
|pub=CNN
|date=November 2, 2007}}
*{{source|url=http://www.wga.org/subpage_member.aspx?id=2204
|title=Contract 2007
|author=
|pub=Writers Guild of America
|date=November 2, 2007}}

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Grady Little had been the Dodgers manager until Tuesday when he resigned from the team with one year remaining on his three-year contract.

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The recent successes in India stock markets raised concerns that stocks are being valued too highly, causing an economic bubble that could be subject to correction.

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The union's contract expired on Wednesday. Production of many television series and films will continue in the short term because of scripts that are already written. However, a strike will have an immediate impact on talk shows whose writing relies on current events. The last strike by the Writers Guild in 1988 lasted nearly half a year.

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