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Composited from today’s newswires:
Million Dollar Baby knocked ‘em dead at the 77th Annual Academy Awards.
A suicide bomber killed 125 people and wounded 130 by detonating a car near police recruits in a crowded market south of Baghdad on Monday, the single bloodiest attack in Iraq since the fall of Saddam Hussein.
The hard-hitting drama reeled in […]

“…earlier in the day, [Bush] spent more than an hour having what he described as a “candid and open exchange of views” on democratic values with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Just the two presidents and their interpreters were in the room.
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BUSH: So… Pooty poot. The pootster. Pootalicious…
PUTIN: Yes.
BUSH: […]

Death is bearing down on the Pope, his enemies closing in on him. And as we all know, there’s nothing more dangerous than a pope who’s been backed into a corner. In all of nature, no creature lashes back with such vehemence and ferocity - just when you think a pope is down […]

From The Philadelphia Inquirer:
A federal agency’s efforts to remove the words gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender from the program of a federally funded conference on suicide prevention have inspired scores of experts in mental health to flood the agency with angry e-mail.
At issue is a conference on suicide prevention to be held next Monday in […]

From Reuters:
“GAITHERSBURG, Md. - Merck & Co. Inc.’s withdrawn arthritis drug Vioxx is safe enough to rejoin Pfizer’s rival pain relievers Celebrex and Bextra on the U.S. market, an advisory panel said after concluding that all three medicines posed some level of heart risk.
The 17-15 vote on Vioxx’s safety to go to […]

I’ll be heading north this afternoon, north to Berkeley for a live “Wait Wait.” For those of you who are asking - no, there are no more tickets that I can get my paws on. The place is going to be packed, and the doors will have a vacuum seal on them. […]

From: General Herbert Slothrop
To: President Bush
CC: Vice President Cheney, Secretary Rumsfeld, Secretary Rice
Re: Oops
Mr. President,
As you might have heard, the latest test of our missile defense system didn’t completely succeed. We tried to simulate a missile strike from North Korea. The good news is that the simulated missile launched […]

It was a beautiful morning today, bright and sunny, and the promise of tonight’s sweet romance buoyed my already buoyant spirits. And though I’m not from the faith that technically believes in a “St. Valentine,” love’s universal, right? What, I asked myself, could possibly go wrong?
What indeed.
As I strolled down the street, I […]

“Giambi said he had not read the San Francisco Chronicle story, which cited transcripts of his grand jury testimony, and he would not say whether the newspaper’s report was accurate.”
- from The New York Times
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All right, once a steroid-infused musclehead manages to use a new dodge effectively, it’s fair to say that it’s gone mainstream. […]

“When we disagreed, we still disagreed as friends.”
- Condoleezza Rice, speaking in Europe about our relationship with France
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Too true! This reminds me of my relationship with my good friend, a fellow writer I’ll call “Scott.” We’ve had our bumpy moments, but we’ve always remained friends. Let me give you an example.
A couple […]