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Dre, G of the week candidate?
BOSTON (Reuters) - A man charged with murder in Massachusetts was so angry with his lawyer's performance he attacked the attorney in court, trying to strangle him as a shocked judge looked on, Boston radio reported on Wednesday.
"I think he just didn't like the way some of the rulings the judge was making was going yesterday morning," attorney Bruce Carroll told WBZ Radio of the Tuesday morning attack by defendant John Gomes in Boston's Suffolk Superior Court.
"He eventually stood up, started saying something and reached over and grabbed me by the throat," said Carroll.
Several officers intervened before the 6-foot (1.8-meter), 250-pound (113-kg) Gomes was separated from Carroll, the radio reported. Carroll had tried to withdraw from the case last week but the judge denied his request.
BOSTON (Reuters) - A man charged with murder in Massachusetts was so angry with his lawyer's performance he attacked the attorney in court, trying to strangle him as a shocked judge looked on, Boston radio reported on Wednesday.
"I think he just didn't like the way some of the rulings the judge was making was going yesterday morning," attorney Bruce Carroll told WBZ Radio of the Tuesday morning attack by defendant John Gomes in Boston's Suffolk Superior Court.
"He eventually stood up, started saying something and reached over and grabbed me by the throat," said Carroll.
Several officers intervened before the 6-foot (1.8-meter), 250-pound (113-kg) Gomes was separated from Carroll, the radio reported. Carroll had tried to withdraw from the case last week but the judge denied his request.
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Crazy.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian customs officers thought something was fishy when they inspected a man's luggage and found jars of pickled fish.
Closer inspection found 39 condoms of heroin inside the fish.
Officers at Adelaide airport in South Australia "became suspicious about pickled fish fillets inside jars found in the passenger's luggage" Wednesday, a Customs statement said.
"Closer inspection revealed a number of condoms sewn inside the fish pieces," said the statement Thursday.
A 32-year-old Australian man returning from Cambodia was arrested and will be charged with importing more than two kg (4.4 pounds) of heroin, Customs said.
The charge of importing a commercial quantity of drugs carries a penalty of life imprisonment and/or a fine of up to A$825,000 (US$620,000
Closer inspection found 39 condoms of heroin inside the fish.
Officers at Adelaide airport in South Australia "became suspicious about pickled fish fillets inside jars found in the passenger's luggage" Wednesday, a Customs statement said.
"Closer inspection revealed a number of condoms sewn inside the fish pieces," said the statement Thursday.
A 32-year-old Australian man returning from Cambodia was arrested and will be charged with importing more than two kg (4.4 pounds) of heroin, Customs said.
The charge of importing a commercial quantity of drugs carries a penalty of life imprisonment and/or a fine of up to A$825,000 (US$620,000
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Yes, I was very at the time.
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Contaminated tower looms at WTC site
Toxic waste, human remains, keep building's future in the balance
AP | May 25 2006
While debates rage about why more buildings have not gone up at the World Trade Center site, there is one, shrouded in a web of black netting and full of trade center dust, that can’t seem to come down.
The vacant 41-story former Deutsche Bank AG building looms above ground zero, contaminated with toxic waste and still holding tiny body parts more than four years after the trade center collapsed onto it on Sept. 11, 2001. Removing it from the landscape has become a more challenging task than cleaning up the twin towers.
“That’s more or less a vertical Superfund site, and we’re living right next to it,” said neighborhood resident Esther Regelson, referring to a federal program for cleaning up the nation’s most polluted industrial sites. She is concerned that taking down the building improperly will contaminate the area even more.
The eyesore presents different problems for a business district struggling to coax companies back to office space destroyed by terrorists. The first rebuilt skyscraper near ground zero, 7 World Trade Center, opened Tuesday with less than one-fifth of its space rented.
“Having it still there isn’t helping,” said Eric Deutch, president of the Alliance for Downtown New York.
Cleanup stalled
Development officials hope to bring down the building over the next year, making way for a new tower that could offer apartments or a hotel. But the cleanup that began last fall has stalled repeatedly as the Environmental Protection Agency and other regulators cited contractors for violations.
Construction workers, helped by the Fire Department, have another, wrenching task as they sift through debris. They have recovered more than 600 tiny bone fragments so far that had not been found in searches of the building shortly after the attacks.
Family groups and four U.S. senators have asked for more thorough sweeps of the area to search for other fragments.
Before the cleanup began, the 32-year-old building was embroiled in a legal battle between the company, insurers and the government over who was responsible for it.
The tower lay untouched for months after the collapsing south tower tore into it, leaving a 15-story gash in its facade. The building became infested with mold caused by moisture from fire sprinklers and also contains asbestos, lead, mercury and toxic dust from the trade center.
Deutsche Bank got into court battles with several insurers for payments to help take the building down. It also sued the city for more than $500 million in damages to the tower.
New tower planned
The Lower Manhattan Development Corp., the state agency overseeing rebuilding at ground zero, bought the tower for $90 million two years ago after “the private sector was unable to create a solution,” agency President Stefan Pryor said.
It took another year to begin the cleanup because the agency needed the EPA and others to approve one of the most complex demolition plans in the city’s history.
The LMDC hopes to begin dismantling the building from the top down next month. Once it is gone, in a year or so, officials plan to build the last of five proposed towers to replace the trade center there. Planners may develop it into an apartment complex or hotel.
The cleanup, which began in September, caused immediate controversy when several bone fragments were found on the building’s roof. In recent months, hundreds more were found. Family members of Sept. 11 victims, many of whom never recovered remains of their loved ones, were outraged.
Sen. Charles Schumer became the first of four senators to ask the Defense Department to send a specialized military unit — best known for finding the remains of missing soldiers in Vietnam — to search the area for more fragments. The Defense Department is open to sending the elite unit, Schumer said, and “we hope the city will allow them.”
At a state hearing on Thursday, Pryor and Deputy Mayor Daniel Doctoroff said the LMDC and city team are doing a thorough job searching and do not need help.
The EPA suspended the search for remains several times in recent weeks because of problems with the cleanup that included workers sifting for fragments in an asbestos-contaminated area and crews taking out debris that had not been thoroughly cleaned. The agency allowed contractors to resume removing debris on Tuesday.
Health worries
Regelson, who lives directly behind the Deutsche Bank building, said the tower “pretty much saved our lives” on Sept. 11 because it shielded her residence from the south tower’s collapse. But then her asthma worsened, and she developed an acid-reflux problem.
She worries now that taking down the building will spew more pollutants into the air. She is saddened by the discovery of human remains, but said the toxic dust inside the building is more harmful.
“The body parts aren’t going to kill me,” she said.
Toxic waste, human remains, keep building's future in the balance
AP | May 25 2006
While debates rage about why more buildings have not gone up at the World Trade Center site, there is one, shrouded in a web of black netting and full of trade center dust, that can’t seem to come down.
The vacant 41-story former Deutsche Bank AG building looms above ground zero, contaminated with toxic waste and still holding tiny body parts more than four years after the trade center collapsed onto it on Sept. 11, 2001. Removing it from the landscape has become a more challenging task than cleaning up the twin towers.
“That’s more or less a vertical Superfund site, and we’re living right next to it,” said neighborhood resident Esther Regelson, referring to a federal program for cleaning up the nation’s most polluted industrial sites. She is concerned that taking down the building improperly will contaminate the area even more.
The eyesore presents different problems for a business district struggling to coax companies back to office space destroyed by terrorists. The first rebuilt skyscraper near ground zero, 7 World Trade Center, opened Tuesday with less than one-fifth of its space rented.
“Having it still there isn’t helping,” said Eric Deutch, president of the Alliance for Downtown New York.
Cleanup stalled
Development officials hope to bring down the building over the next year, making way for a new tower that could offer apartments or a hotel. But the cleanup that began last fall has stalled repeatedly as the Environmental Protection Agency and other regulators cited contractors for violations.
Construction workers, helped by the Fire Department, have another, wrenching task as they sift through debris. They have recovered more than 600 tiny bone fragments so far that had not been found in searches of the building shortly after the attacks.
Family groups and four U.S. senators have asked for more thorough sweeps of the area to search for other fragments.
Before the cleanup began, the 32-year-old building was embroiled in a legal battle between the company, insurers and the government over who was responsible for it.
The tower lay untouched for months after the collapsing south tower tore into it, leaving a 15-story gash in its facade. The building became infested with mold caused by moisture from fire sprinklers and also contains asbestos, lead, mercury and toxic dust from the trade center.
Deutsche Bank got into court battles with several insurers for payments to help take the building down. It also sued the city for more than $500 million in damages to the tower.
New tower planned
The Lower Manhattan Development Corp., the state agency overseeing rebuilding at ground zero, bought the tower for $90 million two years ago after “the private sector was unable to create a solution,” agency President Stefan Pryor said.
It took another year to begin the cleanup because the agency needed the EPA and others to approve one of the most complex demolition plans in the city’s history.
The LMDC hopes to begin dismantling the building from the top down next month. Once it is gone, in a year or so, officials plan to build the last of five proposed towers to replace the trade center there. Planners may develop it into an apartment complex or hotel.
The cleanup, which began in September, caused immediate controversy when several bone fragments were found on the building’s roof. In recent months, hundreds more were found. Family members of Sept. 11 victims, many of whom never recovered remains of their loved ones, were outraged.
Sen. Charles Schumer became the first of four senators to ask the Defense Department to send a specialized military unit — best known for finding the remains of missing soldiers in Vietnam — to search the area for more fragments. The Defense Department is open to sending the elite unit, Schumer said, and “we hope the city will allow them.”
At a state hearing on Thursday, Pryor and Deputy Mayor Daniel Doctoroff said the LMDC and city team are doing a thorough job searching and do not need help.
The EPA suspended the search for remains several times in recent weeks because of problems with the cleanup that included workers sifting for fragments in an asbestos-contaminated area and crews taking out debris that had not been thoroughly cleaned. The agency allowed contractors to resume removing debris on Tuesday.
Health worries
Regelson, who lives directly behind the Deutsche Bank building, said the tower “pretty much saved our lives” on Sept. 11 because it shielded her residence from the south tower’s collapse. But then her asthma worsened, and she developed an acid-reflux problem.
She worries now that taking down the building will spew more pollutants into the air. She is saddened by the discovery of human remains, but said the toxic dust inside the building is more harmful.
“The body parts aren’t going to kill me,” she said.
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Edit: I knew it! Interesting read though.
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whats that ???Interesting read? not im some nut who needs to go away?
California lawmakers are considering a bill that would eliminate the words ``mom'' and ``dad'' from school textbooks because they aren't sufficiently inclusive of gay and lesbian couples, reports the Chicago Sun-Times.
Rock bottom!
Just how bad are things for President Bush?
Well, even Clarence Thomas is worried about him.
The other night at a Washington book party for W's sister, Doro Bush Koch, the Supreme Court justice made a beeline for the author, reports the New York Daily News.
``We have to pray for your brother. He's in real trouble,'' Thomas told a wide-eyed Koch, whose older brother is, indeed, suffering from nearly catastrophic public-opinion ratings.
Koch -- whose memoir is My Father, My President: A Personal Account of the Life of George H.W. Bush -- politely thanked Thomas and kept a stiff upper lip.
The sporting news
Dwayne Wade is the Imelda Marcos of the NBA, says Sports Illustrated, which reports that the Miami Heat guard owns about 1,000 pairs of shoes.
He stores 100 pairs in a closet and keeps the rest in the garage.
``My wife thinks I have a problem,'' he tells the mag.
The name game
After naming their first-born girl Moxie CrimeFighter last June, comedian Penn Jillette and wife came up with something a bit more mainstream for their new son -- Zolten Penn, who was born Monday.
``Zolten is a common Hungarian name, it's my wife's maiden name and most importantly, it's the name of Dracula's dog,'' Jillette, the 51-year-old larger half of the comedy-and-magic duo Penn & Teller, tells AP.
Daily driblet
The New York City metropolitan area is home to 7 percent of the U.S. population and 23 percent of the nation's psychiatrists, says the New York Times.
Like a pariah
Madonna's tour opened in Los Angeles over the weekend in typically humble style: At one point, she appears wearing a crown of thorns and suspended from a mirrored cross.
But U.S. Catholic leaders tell the Los Angeles Times that the aging pop idol's antics are ``too pathetic'' to merit a boycott.
This day in music
1964 -- No. 1 Billboard hit: Love Me Do,the Beatles.
No beef over this!
The purple mini-mite formerly known as Prince -- and known as Prince once again -- has been named the ``world's sexiest vegetarian'' in PETA's annual online poll.
Prince, 47, shares the honor with Kristen Bell, the 25-year-old star of Veronica Mars.
A strict vegan, Prince wrote in the liner notes of his latest album, 3121, about the evils of wool production.
Tempus fugit
Bob Dylan is 65 today.
The final word
Bob Dylan's new radio show has begun on XM Radio. I understand it's also being simulcast in English.
-- Jay Leno
Rock bottom!
Just how bad are things for President Bush?
Well, even Clarence Thomas is worried about him.
The other night at a Washington book party for W's sister, Doro Bush Koch, the Supreme Court justice made a beeline for the author, reports the New York Daily News.
``We have to pray for your brother. He's in real trouble,'' Thomas told a wide-eyed Koch, whose older brother is, indeed, suffering from nearly catastrophic public-opinion ratings.
Koch -- whose memoir is My Father, My President: A Personal Account of the Life of George H.W. Bush -- politely thanked Thomas and kept a stiff upper lip.
The sporting news
Dwayne Wade is the Imelda Marcos of the NBA, says Sports Illustrated, which reports that the Miami Heat guard owns about 1,000 pairs of shoes.
He stores 100 pairs in a closet and keeps the rest in the garage.
``My wife thinks I have a problem,'' he tells the mag.
The name game
After naming their first-born girl Moxie CrimeFighter last June, comedian Penn Jillette and wife came up with something a bit more mainstream for their new son -- Zolten Penn, who was born Monday.
``Zolten is a common Hungarian name, it's my wife's maiden name and most importantly, it's the name of Dracula's dog,'' Jillette, the 51-year-old larger half of the comedy-and-magic duo Penn & Teller, tells AP.
Daily driblet
The New York City metropolitan area is home to 7 percent of the U.S. population and 23 percent of the nation's psychiatrists, says the New York Times.
Like a pariah
Madonna's tour opened in Los Angeles over the weekend in typically humble style: At one point, she appears wearing a crown of thorns and suspended from a mirrored cross.
But U.S. Catholic leaders tell the Los Angeles Times that the aging pop idol's antics are ``too pathetic'' to merit a boycott.
This day in music
1964 -- No. 1 Billboard hit: Love Me Do,the Beatles.
No beef over this!
The purple mini-mite formerly known as Prince -- and known as Prince once again -- has been named the ``world's sexiest vegetarian'' in PETA's annual online poll.
Prince, 47, shares the honor with Kristen Bell, the 25-year-old star of Veronica Mars.
A strict vegan, Prince wrote in the liner notes of his latest album, 3121, about the evils of wool production.
Tempus fugit
Bob Dylan is 65 today.
The final word
Bob Dylan's new radio show has begun on XM Radio. I understand it's also being simulcast in English.
-- Jay Leno
Crown_amps
Banned
Dobbs: Bush, Congress tell working folk to go to hell
CNN | May 25, 2006
by Lou Dobbs
NEW YORK - President Bush says that the installation of the new Iraqi government was a "watershed event," but at the same time warns Americans of the challenges and loss as we continue to prosecute the war against Iraqi insurgents. Sen. Harry Reid declares that legislation that would render English the national language is racist.
Thirty-seven Democrats vote for full amnesty for all illegal aliens in this country, even though nobody really knows whether the number is 11 million, 12 million or 20 million. The Senate Republican leadership demands that a "comprehensive immigration reform" plan must be passed before this Memorial Day weekend. And the president signs into law a tax cut that raises taxes on the educational funds of teenagers saving for college.
Never before in our country's history have both the president and Congress been so out of touch with most Americans. Never before have so few of our elected officials and corporate leaders been less willing to commit to the national interest. And never before has our nation's largest constituent group -- some 200 million middle-class Americans -- been without representation in our nation's capital.(Watch why Dobbs said Mexico's leader is in charge of U.S. immigration policy -- 3:16)
George W. Bush's approval ratings have slumped to the lowest of his presidency. The approval rating for Congress is even lower, and nearly three-quarters of Americans believe the country is headed in the wrong direction.
But what is our government doing about that? The president is staying the course in Iraq and apparently demanding little of his generals to create a new, far more effective strategy for urgent success. Of course, he also wants a guest-worker program and amnesty of millions of illegal aliens. And Congress, faced with midterm elections in just over five months, is intent on giving the president what he wants and telling working men and women and their families, American citizens all, to go to hell.
Illegal aliens are more important to this Congress than securing our borders and our ports, more important than those legal immigrants who have waited in line and who follow the law. The Senate has added to the litany of lunacy that makes up what it calls reform: Illegal aliens would only have to pay back taxes on three of the past five years, they will not be prosecuted for felonies such as identity theft or purchasing or using fraudulent Social Security cards, and unlike millions of visa holders who have to leave the country to have them renewed, they may simply remain in the United States while this Congress and this president give away all the benefits and privileges of American citizenship.
This is an outright assault in the elitist war on the middle class. And working men and women who've already borne the pain of losing good-paying manufacturing jobs and having middle-class jobs outsourced to cheap foreign labor markets are faced with the onslaught of more illegal immigration and cheap labor into the American economy. This president and Congress talk about bringing illegal aliens out of the shadows while they turn out the lights on our middle class.
President Bush and his most trusted advisers tell us how well our economy is doing, how many jobs have been created and how so-called free trade will enrich the lives of the same people whose livelihoods these policies are destroying.
It's hard not to think of the trusted adviser to Catherine the Great who sought to hide from her the embarrassing and shoddy condition of Ukrainian and Crimean villages by having elaborate facades built to divert her attention and to mask an uncomfortable reality. I don't know whether Karl Rove is President Bush's Grigori Potemkin or whether George Bush has created Potemkin villages all by himself. But the facades are cracking, and phony fronts of failed policies are quickly crumbling.
Six thousand unarmed National Guardsmen working as adjunct rear support to our undermanned, under-equipped Border Patrol is not border security. Three million illegal aliens continue to cross our borders and depress wages by hundreds of billions of dollars every year. The millions of manufacturing and middle-class jobs lost over the last five years have been replaced by lower-wage employment.
The president's faith-based commitment to so-called free trade will likely lead to a $1 trillion U.S. current account deficit this year and a trade debt of $4.5 trillion after 30 years of trade deficits. And while the president and Congress point to No Child Left Behind as a solution to our educational crisis, we're failing an entire generation of Americans whose test scores continue to fall and whose high school dropout rates would be embarrassing to a third-world country.
And a third-world country is what we will be if our elected officials don't soon come to their senses.
CNN | May 25, 2006
by Lou Dobbs
NEW YORK - President Bush says that the installation of the new Iraqi government was a "watershed event," but at the same time warns Americans of the challenges and loss as we continue to prosecute the war against Iraqi insurgents. Sen. Harry Reid declares that legislation that would render English the national language is racist.
Thirty-seven Democrats vote for full amnesty for all illegal aliens in this country, even though nobody really knows whether the number is 11 million, 12 million or 20 million. The Senate Republican leadership demands that a "comprehensive immigration reform" plan must be passed before this Memorial Day weekend. And the president signs into law a tax cut that raises taxes on the educational funds of teenagers saving for college.
Never before in our country's history have both the president and Congress been so out of touch with most Americans. Never before have so few of our elected officials and corporate leaders been less willing to commit to the national interest. And never before has our nation's largest constituent group -- some 200 million middle-class Americans -- been without representation in our nation's capital.(Watch why Dobbs said Mexico's leader is in charge of U.S. immigration policy -- 3:16)
George W. Bush's approval ratings have slumped to the lowest of his presidency. The approval rating for Congress is even lower, and nearly three-quarters of Americans believe the country is headed in the wrong direction.
But what is our government doing about that? The president is staying the course in Iraq and apparently demanding little of his generals to create a new, far more effective strategy for urgent success. Of course, he also wants a guest-worker program and amnesty of millions of illegal aliens. And Congress, faced with midterm elections in just over five months, is intent on giving the president what he wants and telling working men and women and their families, American citizens all, to go to hell.
Illegal aliens are more important to this Congress than securing our borders and our ports, more important than those legal immigrants who have waited in line and who follow the law. The Senate has added to the litany of lunacy that makes up what it calls reform: Illegal aliens would only have to pay back taxes on three of the past five years, they will not be prosecuted for felonies such as identity theft or purchasing or using fraudulent Social Security cards, and unlike millions of visa holders who have to leave the country to have them renewed, they may simply remain in the United States while this Congress and this president give away all the benefits and privileges of American citizenship.
This is an outright assault in the elitist war on the middle class. And working men and women who've already borne the pain of losing good-paying manufacturing jobs and having middle-class jobs outsourced to cheap foreign labor markets are faced with the onslaught of more illegal immigration and cheap labor into the American economy. This president and Congress talk about bringing illegal aliens out of the shadows while they turn out the lights on our middle class.
President Bush and his most trusted advisers tell us how well our economy is doing, how many jobs have been created and how so-called free trade will enrich the lives of the same people whose livelihoods these policies are destroying.
It's hard not to think of the trusted adviser to Catherine the Great who sought to hide from her the embarrassing and shoddy condition of Ukrainian and Crimean villages by having elaborate facades built to divert her attention and to mask an uncomfortable reality. I don't know whether Karl Rove is President Bush's Grigori Potemkin or whether George Bush has created Potemkin villages all by himself. But the facades are cracking, and phony fronts of failed policies are quickly crumbling.
Six thousand unarmed National Guardsmen working as adjunct rear support to our undermanned, under-equipped Border Patrol is not border security. Three million illegal aliens continue to cross our borders and depress wages by hundreds of billions of dollars every year. The millions of manufacturing and middle-class jobs lost over the last five years have been replaced by lower-wage employment.
The president's faith-based commitment to so-called free trade will likely lead to a $1 trillion U.S. current account deficit this year and a trade debt of $4.5 trillion after 30 years of trade deficits. And while the president and Congress point to No Child Left Behind as a solution to our educational crisis, we're failing an entire generation of Americans whose test scores continue to fall and whose high school dropout rates would be embarrassing to a third-world country.
And a third-world country is what we will be if our elected officials don't soon come to their senses.
PHI BETA WHATTA?
``Commencement speeches,'' said Doonesbury's daddy, Garry Trudeau, ``were invented in the belief that college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated.''
Playing off that wiseguy comment, Reader's Digest prints a couple of speeches that it says will jolt the new grads awake.
Here's Jon Stewart, accepting an honorary degree at his alma mater, the College of William & Mary:
``When I think back to the people who have been in this position before me, from Benjamin Franklin to Queen Noor of Jordan, I can't help but wonder what has happened to this place. As a person, I am honored to get it; as an alumnus, I have to say I believe we can do better.''
•
Harvard alum Conan O'Brien warned the grads there that they were in for a lifetime of: ``And you went to Harvard?''
``Accidentally give the wrong change in a transaction,'' he told them, ``and it's, `And you went to Harvard?' Forget just once that your underwear goes inside your pants and it's, `And you went to Harvard?' ''
The sporting news
Michelle Wie this year will compete on the LPGA Tour, PGA Tour, European PGA Tour, Asian Tour and Japan PGA Tour, reports AP.
High on the hog
It was a good week for class warfare, reports The Week, after police in Hamburg, Germany, began hunting a gang of robbers dressed as superheroes who have been stealing Kobe beef fillets, smoked salmon and champagne from upscale shops and restaurants and giving it all to the poor.
•
But it was a bad week for impulse purchases, says the mag, after a Chinese businessman bought a used Russian MiG fighter jet on eBay for $34,730 before learning that there is no realistic way of shipping it to China from its present home in Idaho. Zhang Cheng now is seeking a refund.
This day in music
2002 -- More than two dozen people are injured in a mosh pit stampede while Eminem is performing at RFK Stadium in Washington, D.C.
The name game
Geri Halliwell has named her infant daughter Bluebell Madonna. The 33-year-old singer, also known as Ginger Spice of the Spice Girls, tells Hello! mag she'd been inspired by seeing the spring flowers during her pregnancy.
Daily driblet
The phosphoric acid in soda pop is so strong that it can be used to loosen rusted screws and remove toilet stains, says FHM.
A-list or $-list?
Even Paris Hilton was amazed after she collected $200,000 just for showing up at a charity event in Cannes. And FoxNews.com reports she was paid $1 million for a similar event in Vienna a few weeks ago.
What does she have to do for the money?
``All I had to do was wave, like this,'' she tells the New York Post, imitating Queen Elizabeth II's stately palm swivel.
The final word
Instead of sneaking in, if you want to be a U.S. citizen, do it the right way. Have Angelina Jolie adopt you.
-- Jimmy Kimmel
``Commencement speeches,'' said Doonesbury's daddy, Garry Trudeau, ``were invented in the belief that college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated.''
Playing off that wiseguy comment, Reader's Digest prints a couple of speeches that it says will jolt the new grads awake.
Here's Jon Stewart, accepting an honorary degree at his alma mater, the College of William & Mary:
``When I think back to the people who have been in this position before me, from Benjamin Franklin to Queen Noor of Jordan, I can't help but wonder what has happened to this place. As a person, I am honored to get it; as an alumnus, I have to say I believe we can do better.''
•
Harvard alum Conan O'Brien warned the grads there that they were in for a lifetime of: ``And you went to Harvard?''
``Accidentally give the wrong change in a transaction,'' he told them, ``and it's, `And you went to Harvard?' Forget just once that your underwear goes inside your pants and it's, `And you went to Harvard?' ''
The sporting news
Michelle Wie this year will compete on the LPGA Tour, PGA Tour, European PGA Tour, Asian Tour and Japan PGA Tour, reports AP.
High on the hog
It was a good week for class warfare, reports The Week, after police in Hamburg, Germany, began hunting a gang of robbers dressed as superheroes who have been stealing Kobe beef fillets, smoked salmon and champagne from upscale shops and restaurants and giving it all to the poor.
•
But it was a bad week for impulse purchases, says the mag, after a Chinese businessman bought a used Russian MiG fighter jet on eBay for $34,730 before learning that there is no realistic way of shipping it to China from its present home in Idaho. Zhang Cheng now is seeking a refund.
This day in music
2002 -- More than two dozen people are injured in a mosh pit stampede while Eminem is performing at RFK Stadium in Washington, D.C.
The name game
Geri Halliwell has named her infant daughter Bluebell Madonna. The 33-year-old singer, also known as Ginger Spice of the Spice Girls, tells Hello! mag she'd been inspired by seeing the spring flowers during her pregnancy.
Daily driblet
The phosphoric acid in soda pop is so strong that it can be used to loosen rusted screws and remove toilet stains, says FHM.
A-list or $-list?
Even Paris Hilton was amazed after she collected $200,000 just for showing up at a charity event in Cannes. And FoxNews.com reports she was paid $1 million for a similar event in Vienna a few weeks ago.
What does she have to do for the money?
``All I had to do was wave, like this,'' she tells the New York Post, imitating Queen Elizabeth II's stately palm swivel.
The final word
Instead of sneaking in, if you want to be a U.S. citizen, do it the right way. Have Angelina Jolie adopt you.
-- Jimmy Kimmel
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