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Simon Cowell is on the move. "American Idol's" star judge and Fox plan to launch a U.S. version of his wildly popular British music talent show "The X Factor" in 2011, people close to the situation said. As a result, this year may be Cowell's last with a full-time presence on the nation's most popular television series, which begins its ninth season Tuesday. The network and the British television personality, famous on both sides of the Atlantic, have been furiously negotiating for days, and an agreement on the new program, in which Cowell would again be a judge, could be announced as early as this week. Losing "American Idol's" linchpin...