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In Other News...

U.S. Sets Conditions for Peacekeeping Missions
We get top billing, our own trailer, and immunity from prosecution.

Temperature Hits 200º in Boston
Symposium on global warming forced to move inside.

No CEO's, CFO's Caught Stealing Today
But it's still early.

Fossett Will Write About Successful Solo Balloon Trip Around Earth on Sixth Try
Working title: "Some People Have Way Too Much Money."


News Quiz

Which of the following international agreements has the United States NOT abrogated or refused to sign: International Criminal Court Treaty, Kyoto Global Warming Treaty, Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, Biological and Chemical Weapons Treaty, Land Mine Treaty, Small Arms Treaty, Rice Krispies Treaties. Hint: agreement does not limit the deployment of marshmallows.




Quotes, Part II

"Mr. Bush had filed disclosures of his stock trades in Harken Energy, where he was a director, as much as eight months late. The ethical call? Blame Harken's lawyers. A presidential spokesman assured us that this infraction amounted to nothing more than driving 60 in a 55-mile-per-hour zone. That will surely bring good cheer to those Harken shareholders who were left holding the stock that Mr. Bush sold, with no insider's knowledge, of course, just before it tanked." - Frank Rich in the NY Times.

"So, in the end, the younger Bush was cleared of insider trade wrongdoing by his personal attorney and by his father's vice-presidential counsel, a virtual impossibility for the average U.S. citizen." - Tom Flocco in Scoop.