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SATURDAY • OCTOBER 27, 2007

JUSTICE DEPARTMENT ‘DISMAYED’ OVER RELEASE OF USS COLE BOMBING LEADER: U.S. law enforcement officials Friday blasted Yemen’s release of one of the leaders of the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole, which killed 17 U.S. soldiers.”We are dismayed and deeply disappointed in the government of Yemen’s decision not to imprison [Jamal al-Badawi],” said a Justice Department statement issued by the Department’s National Security Division. “We have communicated our displeasure to Yemeni officials,” the statement said. Former New York City Mayor and presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani promptly called for the U.S. government to cancel $20 million in aid to Yemen for releasing al-Badawi.

IRAQ PLAN TO ADD U.S. TROOPS AT KURDISH BORDER IS REJECTED BY TURKEY: Turkey’s prime minister on Friday rejected an Iraqi proposal that included a military role for the United States in resolving a standoff over raids by Kurdish guerrillas across the rugged border into Turkey.

VICTIMS RETURN TO WILDFIRE WASTELAND: Thousands of Californians forced from their neighborhoods by this week’s wind-whipped wildfires returned home yesterday, some of them finding their property unscathed amid the destruction and others discovering nothing but blackened rubble.

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DEMOCRATS PLAN A SHORTER WORKWEEK: Shortly after winning a majority last year, Democrats triumphantly declared that they would put Congress back to work, promising an “end to the two-day workweek.” And indeed, the House has clocked more time in Washington this year than in any other session since 1995, when Republicans, newly in control, sought to make a similar point.

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MUCH OF U.S. COULD SEE A WATER SHORTAGE: An epic drought in Georgia threatens the water supply for millions. Florida doesn’t have nearly enough water for its expected population boom. The Great Lakes are shrinking. Upstate New York’s reservoirs have dropped to record lows. And in the West, the Sierra Nevada snowpack is melting faster each year. Across America, the picture is critically clear - the nation’s freshwater supplies can no longer quench its thirst.

LBN-NOTICED: ***Tony Blair, family in tow, enjoying the view from the Empire State Building’s Observatory in NYC. ***Harvey Keitel lunching with his wife, Daphna, and son, Hudson, at Cittanuova in East Hampton.

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LBN-BUSINESS INSIDER: ***Homeownership in the U.S. dropped for a fourth consecutive quarter, the longest decline since at least 1981. The proportion of households that own their residences fell to 68.1 percent in the July-September period from 68.3 percent in the prior three months, according to a Census Bureau report. ***Time Warner Inc. said no decision has been made on when Richard Parsons will step down as chief executive officer of the world’s largest media company. ***The board of Merrill Lynch, its frustration mounting over the brokerage firm’s credit losses and the decision-making of its embattled chief executive, E. Stanley O’Neal, has begun to actively consider whether to replace him and with whom, according to people briefed on the board’s deliberations. Merrill Lynch’s directors may be weighing E. Stanley O’Neal’s future, but one thing is already guaranteed: at least a $159 million payday if he steps down. ***The nation’s fleet of commercial planes is aging as carriers put off buying more comfortable and fuel-efficient jets. ***The price of crude oil hit another record high yesterday, capping a wild week on Wall Street, punctuated by widespread rumors and violent market swings.

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LBN-MEDIA INSIDER: ***Todd Cunningham, the assistant managing editor of The L.A. Business Journal, is jumping to the Hollywood Reporter as national editor.

LBN-HOLLYWOOD INSIDER: ***With a writers strike looming, the federal government’s stepping in to mediate negotiations between the WGA and the companies after three months of virtually no movement by either side. The announcement came Friday evening after a day of negotiations concluded with no sign of significant progress. Talks will resume on Tuesday - just a day before the Writers Guild of America contract expires. ***Critically acclaimed singer songwriter Haley Taylor and her band play the Derby VIP Lounge at Friday November 20 at 9:30pm in L.A.

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LBN-VIDEO LINK: Reporter Reports on His Home’s Fiery Destruction

Local “News 8″ reporter Larry Himmel provided a strikingly personal view of the destruction the fires have caused. This dispatch from in front of his home of 25 years.

LBN-BOOK NEWS: ***Having done such a good job turning Britney Spears into a fine and upstanding young woman, the pop tart’s mom, Lynne, yesterday announced plans to pen a book about parenting - just as her daughter fought to get back custody of her own kids. Lynne Spears’ “Pop Culture Mom: A Real Story of Fame and Family in a Tabloid World” will be about her raising three children and will have a religious element, said a spokesman for religious publisher Thomas Nelson. ***Hillary Clinton’s first reaction upon discovering that Bill had carried on an affair with Monica Lewinsky in the Oval Office was that her husband “couldn’t be that insane,” biographer Sally Bedell Smith writes in her upcoming book about the couple, “For Love of Politics.” ***O.J. Simpson’s best-seller “If I Did It” is out in unabridged autobook from Blackstone Audio on six CDs running seven hours.

LBN-WORLD OF ART: Princeton University announced on Friday that its art museum had reached an agreement to return eight ancient works to Italy that the Italian government says were looted and illicitly exported.

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LBN-OVERHEARD: ***The original Capt. Kirk is disheartened he won’t get to boldly go anywhere with his old pal Spock in the new “Star Trek” movie. While Leonard Nimoy is reprising his role in next year’s science-fiction flick, William Shatner is not on board as Kirk. “I couldn’t believe it. I’m not in the movie at all. Leonard, God bless his heart, is in, but not me,” Shatner, 76, told The Associated Press. ***Jeffrey Katzenberg, a co-founder of DreamWorks SKG, was tossed out of the Four Seasons Hotel lounge in NYC after a dust-up with a staffer at the East 57th Street inn the other night, sources say. Witnesses say the Hollywood power player, who is Steven Spielberg and David Geffen’s business partner, commandeered the bustling bar’s tiny service area to better hear his cellphone conversation as the wait staff tried to maneuver around him. Katzenberg ignored bar manager Danny Cooper’s repeated requests to move out of the way. Cooper then told Katzenberg he had to move immediately. That’s when the diminutive mogul got heavy with 6-foot-plus Cooper. “He started shaking his finger and yelling, ‘Who the [bleep] are you? Do you know who I am?’ and then got into a shoving match with [Cooper],” a witness said. ***A lock of socialist revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara’s hair and related items were auctioned on Thursday in Dallas to a Houston-area bookstore owner for the very capitalist sum of $119,500.

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FRIDAY • OCTOBER 26, 2007

‘HUMANITY’S VERY SURVIVAL’ IS AT RISK, SAYS UN: The speed at which mankind has used the Earth’s resources over the past 20 years has put “humanity’s very survival” at risk, a study involving 1,400 scientists has concluded. The environmental audit, for the United Nations, found that each person in the world now requires a third more land to supply his or her needs than the Earth can supply. Thirty percent of amphibians, 23 percent of mammals and 12 percent of birds are under threat of extinction, while one in ten of the world’s major rivers runs dry every year before it reaches the sea.

OIL BRIEFLY SPIKES ABOVE $92 A BARREL: Crude oil prices spiked above $92 in Asia Friday on growing tensions in the Middle East and renewed concern about oil supplies.

BUSH’S EMBRACE; TELLS WILDFIRE VICTIMS: ‘OUR HEARTS ARE HERE’: President Bush yesterday embraced victims of Southern California’s massive wildfires, telling a couple who lost their home: “Our hearts are right here.”

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RANGEL’S $1 TRILLION GRAPPLE WITH GOP; FOES BLAST ‘MOTHER OF ALL TAX HIKES’: New York Rep. Charles Rangel yesterday unveiled a massive new tax bill that the powerhouse lawmaker has dubbed the “mother of all tax reforms” - but Republicans immediately panned it as the “mother of all tax hikes.”

TERRORROCKETS.COM; GOOGLE A WEAPON VS. ISRAEL: Palestinian terrorists are boasting that they’ve been able to pound an Israeli town with rockets and target military sites - thanks to satellite images from Google.

COURT ORDERS TEEN FREED IN CONSENSUAL SEX CASE: The Georgia Supreme Court on Friday ordered that Genarlow Wilson be released from prison, ruling 4-3 that his sentence for a teen sex conviction was cruel and unusual punishment. Wilson, 21, was convicted in 2005 of having oral sex with a consenting 15-year-old girl when he was 17.He has served more than two years in prison.

DADDY’S $10M ‘BAD’ MITZVAH; PLUNDER RAP FOR GI-ARMOR BOSS: The former CEO of the leading supplier of body armor to U.S. soldiers in Iraq was charged yesterday with looting the company to bankroll a lavish lifestyle that included a $10 million bat mitzvah for his daughter. In addition to the bat mitzvah - which included performances by Aerosmith, 50 Cent, Tom Petty, Kenny G and the Eagles - prosecutors said David Brooks got the firm, DHB Industries, to pay for other goodies. Among them were a face lift for his ex-wife; vitamins for his stable of 100 horses; pricey vacations; fancy jewels; an armored car; a $194,000 Bentley; and a $100,000 diamond-studded belt buckle.

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DI CRIED, ‘OH, MY GOD’ BEFORE DEATH: A rescuer who tried to help Princess Diana after her Paris car crash said yesterday that the royal spoke as she lay in the wreckage, repeating the words “Oh, my God.” Damian Dalby told an inquest into Diana’s death that he and his brother rushed over to the princess’ Mercedes after it crashed in the Pont d’Alma tunnel on Aug. 31, 1997.

TEARS SCORE BIG NOTES MEDIA EXPERT: Looks like Ellen DeGeneres’ doggy dealings have been a positive thing for the talk queen after all. Ratings for “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” were up almost 10 percent in the overnight Nielsens for the two days following her emotional breakdown over her adopted mutt, Iggy, who was passed on to another family after Ellen no longer wanted it. “This proves that controversy and media attention draw ratings and sell” notes media expert and author Michael Levine.

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LBN-VIDEO LINK: VIDEO: Bill Clinton Takes On 9/11 Conspiracy Protesters: ‘How Dare You’…

LBN-SPORTS INSIDER: ***NBA Commissioner David Stern said yesterday that more than half of the league’s 56 referees have confessed to breaking its rules by betting in casinos - but that he will not punish them because he considers the rules outdated.

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‘GAY’ WORMS: Altering a gene in the brain of female worms changed their sexual orientation, researchers said yesterday, making female worms attracted to other females. The study in the journal Current Biology reinforces the notion that sexual orientation is hard-wired in the brain, said its authors.

LBN-COMMENTARY By DAVID BROOKS: I realized the magic of the information age is that it allows us to know less. It provides us with external cognitive servants.

LBN-NOTICED: ***The hottest dining room in New York City Tuesday night? Call it a tie. At Le Cirque, while Jack and Suzy Welch dined with Les Moonves and Julie Chen, Taki Theodoracopulos and Alexandra von Schoenberg double-dated with Reinaldo and Carolina Herrera, within hailing distance of Martha Stewart. But at the Waverly Inn, Bono and wife Ali dined with Tony Shafrazi, as Gwen Stefani hung with Andre Balazs and Tim and Helen Shifter. Also there were Beyoncé and Jay-Z, Harvey Weinstein and Georgina Chapman, and Stephen Newhouse with John Leguizamo. ***England’s premier broadcast agent Seamus Lyte having lunch yesterday at Kate Mantilini’s in Beverly Hills. ***Kiefer Sutherland and two buddies drinking beers, playing pool and watching the World Series at Fiddlestick’s on Greenwich Avenue in NYC. ***John Cusack at Elaine’s in NYC with James Lipton, following their taping of Lipton’s “Inside the Actors Studio,” with Will Ferrell two tables away. Be an LBN-Correspondent - send your celebrity sightings to LBNElert@timewire.net.

OWEN WILSON GIVES FIRST INTERVIEW - ON MYSPACE: Owen Wilson has given his first interview since his suicide attempt - to his longtime friend, director Wes Anderson. In the interview, to be posted online Friday at midnight, Wilson talks with the director of his latest film, The Darjeeling Limited, as part of the MySpace Artist on Artist series, according to USA Today.

MEXICANS MISS MONEY FROM RELATIVES UP NORTH: For years, millions of Mexican migrants working in the United States have sent money back home to villages like this one, money that allows families to pay medical bills and school fees, build houses and buy clothes or, if they save enough, maybe start a tiny business.But after years of strong increases, the amount of migrant money flowing to Mexico has stagnated. From 2000 to 2006, remittances grew to nearly $24 billion a year from $6.6 billion, rising more than 20 percent some years. In 2007, the increase so far has been less than 2 percent.

LBN-COMMENTARY BY A. O. SCOTT: “Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead” is a chronicle of destruction — physical, spiritual and moral.

LBN-BUSINESS INSIDER: ***Sales of new U.S. homes unexpectedly rose in September after figures for previous months were revised down. Purchases in creased 4.8 percent to an annual rate of 770,000. August purchases were revised down to an 11-year low of 735,000, the Commerce Department said. ***Bank of America plans to stop making loans to mortgage bro kers by the end of the year, a move that will cut 700 jobs. The exit from “wholesale” mortgage lending is part of the 3,000 job cuts an nounced Wednesday. ***Vonage Holdings agreed to pay as much as $120 million to Verizon Communications to settle a patent-infringe ment dispute. Vonage shares surged in ex tended trading. The company faced the prospect of bankruptcy after losing the case to Verizon, analysts said. ***Holdings Inc., the company being acquired by Sirius Satellite Radio Inc., reported a wider loss in the third quarter because of increased costs to sign up subscribers. The net loss expanded to $145.4 million, or 47 cents a share, from $83.8 million, or 32 cents, a year earlier, XM said yesterday. Sales rose 20 percent to $287.5 million.

LBN-COMMENTARY BY MANOHLA DARGIS: Jimmy Carter isn’t a real saint, but he plays one in “Jimmy Carter Man From Plains.”

LBN-POLITICAL BRIEFING BY DICK MORRIS & EILEEN MCGANN:
Arkansas ex-Gov. Mike Huckabee is shaking up the Republican race. Think of the primary process as a tennis tournament. On the center court, in the semi-final, Rudy Giuliani is defeating John McCain in straight sets. But on the right court, low-seeded Huckabee beat Kansas Sen. Sam Brownback in the quarter-finals for the designation of “Christian Coalition” challenger - and now will face off against ex-Sen. Fred Thompson and Massachusetts ex-Gov. Mitt Romney in the right-court semi-final. The winner will meet Rudy in the finals.

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LBN-MEDIA INSIDER: ***In a unique collaboration during the California wildfires, Tribune’s Los Angeles Times is heading up a special Web project with other local media allowing residents to register data so others will know where they are. More than 1,500 people have registered with Firesearch.latimes.com.

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LBN-OVERHEARD: ***Leonardo DiCaprio wasn’t always so smooth with the ladies. He was still a virgin at 17, says Russell Crowe in the new issue of Entertainment Weekly, on stands today. “You know, I worked with Leonardo when he was 17 on ‘The Quick and the Dead [1995],’” says Crowe. “He was a virgin, and he’d talk about that constantly. So I’m hoping we have some time so he can fill in what’s happened in between, maybe show some photos, because I’m sure life’s different now.” *** Los Angeles real estate expert Connie De Groot has just launched a new website: www.ConnieDeGroot.com. Ms. De Groot, who is a frequent commentator on Fox News’ Neil Cavuto and Cashin’ In and quoted by the likes of the Los Angeles Times and Wall Street Journal, launched the site to be a repository of information that all buyers and sellers should not go without. ***It’s a sight we never thought we’d see - a stark naked Philip Seymour Hoffman in the very first frame of Sidney Lumet’s latest, “Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead.” The Oscar-winning actor and an equally nude Marisa Tomei kick off the harrowing thriller with a steamy sex scene that had everyone talking Wednesday night at the Cinema Society N.Y. screening of Lumet’s 45th film. ***Fergie is joining Liza Minnelli and Raquel Welch to become a spokes woman for Mac cosmetics, hawking its Mac Viva Glam line, which raises funds for AIDS. ***A photograph owned by Elton John which was seized by police at a gallery as part of a child pornography probe is not an indecent image, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said on Friday.

LBN-DID YOU KNOW? ***9.7 million under the age of 5 died worldwide in 2006? ***10% of motorcyclists in the U.S. are women? ***In 1990 the average motorcyclists age was 32, and today it is 41? ***The Burj Dubai (a hotel, business, and residential complex in the United Arab Emirates) is expected to be 2,625 feet tall? ***The Burj Dubai costs $4.1 billion dollars? Workers have already completed 145 of the 165 floors, working at a pace of 1 floor every 3 days.

LBN-QUOTE: “It makes a big difference when you have someone in the statehouse willing to take the lead.”PRESIDENT BUSH, referring to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s response to wildfires in California.

LBN-HISTORY: On Oct. 26, 1994, Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin of Israel and Prime Minister Abdel Salam Majali of Jordan signed a peace treaty in a ceremony attended by President Clinton.


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THURSDAY • OCTOBER 25, 2007

U.S. ANNOUNCES SANCTIONS AGAINST IRAN: The Bush administration announced sweeping new sanctions against Iran Thursday - the harshest since the takeover of the U.S. Embassy in 1979 - charging anew that Tehran supports terrorism in the Middle East, exports missiles and is engaging in a nuclear build up. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, joined at a State Department news conference by Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, said the steps the Bush administration is taking against the Revolutionary Guard Corps and a number of banks are designed, among other things, to punish Tehran for its support of terrorist organizations in Iraq and the Middle East.

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FIRES’ COST TO INSURERS IS IN RANGE OF $1 BILLION: As bad as the California fires look on television and as horrible as they are for families with homes in their path, the wildfires are doing much less damage than Hurricane Katrina two years ago, and they are going to cost only a fraction of the $41.1 billion that insurance companies paid out for the hurricane.

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KURD KABOOM; TURKS BOMB FOE IN IRAQ CLASH: Turkish warplanes bombed and destroyed several Kurdish militant bases inside northern Iraq yesterday as the undeclared border war escalated sharply, officials said. Turkish officials were weighing whether to carry out their threat to mount a full invasion of the mountainous region to wipe out guerrillas of the Kurdistan Workers Party who have repeatedly waged deadly cross-border attacks.

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GIULIANI: I COULD END ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION IN THREE YEARS: Rudy Giuliani said Wednesday that if elected president he would end illegal immigration in as few as three years by employing the same police tactics he used to reduce the crime rate as New York mayor. “It can be done. It is not impossible,” Giuliani told his audience at a town hall-style meeting. “You can do this, you can stop them at the border.” Giuliani said he would boost the number of border security agents to 18,000 from the current 12,000, and build a fence along the U.S.-Mexico border with technological monitoring to reduce illegal immigration. He also would deploy federal agents along the border at 50-mile intervals, using high-tech monitors to detect people trying to enter the country illegally.

LBN-COMMENTARY By CRAIG HOLLANDER: Scientists guess at what influenza virus might reach the US during the winter. Their work is based on previous flu viruses, and which influenza viruses are traveling through Asia. If they’re correct, the flu shot may be effective in younger adults. Few studies have included the elderly, especially those over 70 years, which accounts for 75% of all flu deaths. Even though the flu shot has increased form 16% to 65% since 1980, mortality studies have been unable to confirm any decline in flu related deaths. Lancet confirms that cohort studies have greatly exaggerated the influenza vaccine benefits. The current studies are insufficient in showing any benefit on mortality that the elderly would derive from the influenza vaccination program. Craig Hollander is a Holistic Health Consultant - to reply to him directly, send an e-mail to LBNElert@timewire.net.

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A TAX PLAN AS TRIAL RUN FOR ‘09 LAW: The House’s leading Democratic tax writer will propose a sweeping overhaul of the tax code on Thursday that would increase taxes on many people with incomes above $200,000 but cut them for most others. The bill, to be introduced by Representative Charles B. Rangel of New York, chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, would also overhaul corporate taxes by eliminating many major tax breaks and lowering overall tax rates.

STRESS MESS IN U.S.; 48% CAN’T SLEEP: We’re stressed out, we can’t sleep, we’re drinking too much - and it’s getting worse. Forty-eight percent of Americans say they’re more stressed now than they were five years ago, and the same percent report regularly lying awake at night because of stress, according to a new study by the American Psychological Association.

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CHINA’S ECONOMY EXPANDS 11.5%: China’s economy, the biggest contributor to global growth, expanded 11.5 percent in the third quarter, adding pressure for faster currency appreciation and higher borrowing costs to curb inflation.

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LBN-HOLLYWOOD INSIDER: ***The LBN E-Lert screens “The Godfather-Part 2″ this Sunday at the Wilshire Screening Room in Beverly Hills. ***Here’s the new benchmark for predicting box-office performance: “If a movie star heads the cast, downgrade the forecasts,” writes Variety chief Peter Bart in the bible of showbiz. He goes on to cite the names of Ben Stiller, Jodie Foster, George Clooney, Halle Berry, Brad Pitt, Mark Wahlberg, Joaquin Phoenix, Jude Law and Jamie Foxx. “All top-lined recent projects that either underperformed or tanked.”

LBN-NOTICED: ***KISS star and artist Paul Stanley having drinks at the Beverly Hills Hotel Polo Lounge with LCO Vice-President Liam Collopy. ***Producer Mike Medavoy speaking to Women in Film at McCormick & Schmicks’s in Beverly Hills last night. ***Super-model Kaki West having lunch with her Mom at the Beverly Hills Hotel yesterday. ***The first nine days of the Fox Business Network were enough to put its crew into a party mood last night. News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch, Fox TV boss Roger Ailes and a few hundred guests celebrated at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The guest list included Jack and Suzy Welch, Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, Harvey and Bob Weinstein, Bo Derek, Henry Kravis and his wife, Marie-Josee Drouin, and Regis and Joy Philbin. ***Hollywood’s Mary-Kate Olsen her companion, writer Derek Blasberg, had their dinner at Soho House in NYC up on the roof terrace so Mary-Kate could chain-smoke through the meal. ***Dan Ackroyd with wife Donna Dixon at Michael’s in Santa Monica.

LBN-SEE IT…..Fire retardant being applied Sunday to the roof of the house of Jeffrey Katzenberg, chief executive of DreamWorks……

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LBN-BUSINESS INSIDER: ***In agreeing to invest $240 million in Facebook, Microsoft did something yesterday it hasn’t done in some time: Beat Google. ***Rick Reilly, who has jumped from Sports Illustrated to ESPN, had been offered the chance to write a movie script as part of his most recent Time Inc. contract. He did so, but the movie never got made. A script he wrote 14 years ago was made into a movie to be released in April. ***Motor Co. on Thursday reported record net profit for the six months to September and revised up its full-year forecast on strong sales overseas.

LBN-SPORTS INSIDER: ***Tony Peña was interviewed on Wednesday for the Yankees’ managerial opening and a decision may be made as early as Friday between Peña, Don Mattingly and Joe Girardi.

LBN-COMMENTARY By RUTH LA FERLA: Lingerie items have become “display pieces,” and corsets, slips, panties and camisoles are as extravagant in their design as Louboutin platforms or a YSL tote.

SIX ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS ARRESTED AT QUALCOMM: Six illegal Mexican immigrants were arrested today by U.S. Border Patrol agents at Qualcomm Stadium, after a report that they were stealing food and water meant for evacuees, according to spokesman Damon Foreman.

UNLIKELY BEATLE EX-WIFE: Heather Mills wants to be played by Reese Witherspoon in the movie of her life, but she wants an unknown to play Paul McCartney, 65. Britain’s Daily Mail reports Mills, 39, flew to L.A. this week for meetings on the biopic, which had been shelved while she was negotiating her divorce settlement with the former Beatle. When talks collapsed last week, “the script was dusted off pretty rapidly,” a source was quoted. “Heather sees this film as the tragic and empowering story of a young model who loses her leg, overcomes her difficulties and marries her prince. But the most interesting part of the tale will be the dark goings-on behind closed doors.”

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BEFORE SHE WAS FAMOUS: Amy Winehouse was making music long before she was saying “no” to rehab. The singer’s debut album, Frank, will be released in the U.S. on Nov. 20. The disc was previously released only in Britain in 2003.

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LBN-OVERHEARD: ***New charges of felony coercion were filed yesterday against O.J. Simpson and three co-defendants in the alleged armed robbery of two sports-memorabilia dealers. The revised complaint also drops charges against Walter Alexander and Charles Cashmore, who pleaded guilty Tuesday to reduced charges. Motown Records founder Berry Gordy was portrayed as a mob-connected sleazebag by Jamie Foxx in “Dreamgirls.” But at Motown’s 50th anniversary at the T.J. Martell gala at the N.Y. Hilton Tuesday night, there was buzz about a new Broadway musical in the works that will tell Berry’s real story with real Motown music instead of ersatz Broadway show tunes. ***Christina Aguilera and Jordan Bratman could be doubling their family. A reliable source says she’s expecting twins. ***The heads of New York’s five Mafia families debated whacking Rudy Giuliani at a 1986 sitdown, according to bombshell testimony Wednesday at the trial of a disgraced FBI agent. Gambino crime boss John Gotti and Colombo head Carmine Persico pushed hard for the hit, but failed to persuade the other three members of the Cosa Nostra commission to okay killing Giuliani, then a mob-busting federal prosecutor.

LBN-DID YOU KNOW? - WHAT AMERICANS SAID: ***77% of Americans said that they would not want to be President Bush’s son-in-law? ***37% of Americans have picked up a hitchhiker? ***63% of Americans said the purpose of sex is recreation instead of procreation? ***17% of Americans said they would trade in their current car for the batmobile? ***36% of Americans said that if they saw a group of Arab men board a plane, they would not get on the flight?

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LBN-HISTORY: On Oct. 25, 1971, the United Nations General Assembly voted to admit mainland China and expel Taiwan.


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WEDNESDAY • OCTOBER 24, 2007

YOU KNEW FAST! FAST! FAST! More than 1 million California residents were forced to flee their homes yesterday - one of the biggest evacuations since the Civil War - as high winds whipped wildfires into unstoppable infernos across portions of the bone-dry Golden State. Yesterday afternoon, the 232,000 LBN E-Lert readers got the news BEFORE…..The Los Angeles Times, USA Today, CNN, Fox News, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, NBC News, etc.

BUSH TO WARN CUBA ON PLAN FOR TRANSITION: President Bush is planning to issue a stern warning Wednesday that the United States will not accept a political transition in Cuba in which power changes from one Castro brother to another, rather than to the Cuban people. As described by an official in a background briefing to reporters on Tuesday evening, Mr. Bush’s remarks will amount to the most detailed response — mainly an unbending one — to the political changes that began in Cuba more than a year ago, when Fidel Castro fell ill and handed power to his brother Raúl.

HOME SALES PLUNGE BY 8 PERCENT: Sales of existing homes plunged by a record amount in September as turmoil in mortgage markets added more problems to a housing industry in its worst slump in 16 years. The National Association of Realtors reported Wednesday that sales of existing homes fell 8 percent in September, the largest decline to show up in records dating to 1999. The seasonally adjusted annual sales rate of 5.04 million existing homes was also the slowest pace on record.

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IRAQ DEATHS ARE FALLING; AS CIVILIANS JOIN FIGHT VS. MILITIAS: October is on course to record the second consecutive decline in U.S. military and Iraqi civilian deaths, and American commanders say they know why: the U.S. troop increase and an Iraqi groundswell against al Qaeda and Shiite militia extremists.

IRAN NUKE NUT HURRIES HOME: President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad cut short a planned two-day visit to Armenia yesterday, officials there said, as the hard-line leader faced growing unhappiness back home over the resignation of Iran’s top nuclear negotiator. The sudden replacement of negotiator Ali Larijani fueled already increasing complaints - even from conservatives who were once his supporters - that the firebrand president was mismanaging Iran’s most vital issues, particularly the confrontation with the West over the nuclear program.

LBN-MEDIA INSIDER: ***KNX radio’s Frank Mottek and L.A. Times columnist Joel Stein spoke last night at the L.A. Leadership Council in Beverly Hills. ***Bill Murray is hosting a 10th anniversary party for Esquire’s editor-in-chief, David Granger, tomorrow night at the Esquire North in Harlem. Aimee Mann will perform.

BUSH IS THE BIGGEST SPENDER SINCE LBJ: George W. Bush, despite all his recent bravado about being an apostle of small government and budget-slashing, is the biggest spending president since Lyndon B. Johnson. In fact, he’s arguably an even bigger spender than LBJ. “He’s a big government guy,” said Stephen Slivinski, the director of budget studies at Cato Institute, a libertarian research group. The numbers are clear, credible and conclusive, added David Keating, the executive director of the Club for Growth, a budget-watchdog group.” He’s a big spender,” Keating said. “No question about it.”

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LBN-THE CLEAR PICTURE BOX: SCREENING FOR TERRORISM: The number of terror watch-list records [1] more than quadrupled over roughly a three-year period: June 2004 — 158,374 | May 2005 — 287,982 | June 2006 — 515,906 | May 2007 — 754,960 [1]: One record reflects one name but not necessarily one person.

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PLENTY O’ JUICE — O.J. RAKED IN $1.2 MIL FROM 2003-05!: Apparently, being found liable for the deaths of two people and making millions aren’t mutually exclusive: O.J. Simpson made nearly $400,000 in income from his NFL pensions every year from 2003 to 2005, for a total of $1.2 million, and even earned $50,000 from what he calls “appearances,” according to tax returns released to the father of Simpson victim Ron Goldman — and obtained by TMZ.

LBN-NOTICED: ***Barack Obama barely breaks a sweat when he works out. The presidential candidate visited the Century City Equinox gym in L.A. on Saturday at 7 a.m. for a five-minute treadmill walk, followed by a half-hour of wandering from machine to machine, doing one set on each. Mariah Carey got a major welcome yesterday at Macy’s Herald Square, where she made an appearance to promote her new perfume. ***Former L.A. City Councilman Nate Holden, book columnist Connie Martinson and Beverly Hills cosmetic surgeon Dr. Robert Kotler all at Aqua Lounge last night for the L.A. Leadership Counsel. ***Tom Brady celebrating his record six touchdown passes with his supermodel girlfriend, Gisele Bundchen, at Prime 112 in South Beach, where Bill Clinton introduced him to his party as “the greatest quarterback in the world.” Be an LBN Correspondent, send your celebrity sightings to LBNElert@timewire.net.

LBN-COMMENTARY By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN: Boy, am I glad we finally got out of Iraq. It was so painful waking up every morning and reading the news from there. It’s just such a relief to have it out of mind and behind us. Huh? Say what? You say we’re still there? But how could that be — nobody in Washington is talking about it anymore? I don’t know whether it was the sheer agony of the debate over Gen. David Petraeus’s testimony, or the fact that the surge really has dampened casualties, or the failure by Democrats to force an Iraq withdrawal through Congress, or the fact that all the leading Democratic presidential contenders have signaled that they will not precipitously withdraw U.S. forces from Iraq, but the air has gone out of the Iraq debate. That is too bad. Neglect is not benign when it comes to Iraq — because Iraq is not healthy. Iraq is like a cancer patient who was also running a high fever from an infection (Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia). The military surge has brought down the fever, but the patient still has cancer (civil war). And we still don’t know how to treat it. Surgery? Chemotherapy? Natural healers? Euthanasia?

AMTRAK RIDERSHIP HITS A RECORD: A record 25.8 million passengers took Amtrak in the last fiscal year, an increase of 1.5 million over fiscal 2006, the national passenger railroad said yesterday. Ridership for the year ended Sept. 30 surpassed the previous record of 25.03 million set in 2004, before Amtrak transferred some services to a commuter rail operator.

LBN-BUSINESS INSIDER: ***Amazon.com said quarterly profit quadrupled and raised its forecasts for the year. ***Apple rose to a record after a 67 percent jump in fourth-quarter profit on demand for Macintosh computers, iPod players and iPhone handsets. ***United Airlines parent UAL Corp. said third-quarter profit increased 76 percent as the carrier cut capacity to fly fuller planes and raise fares. ***JetBlue Airways posted a third-quarter profit that almost doubled analysts’ estimates as the discount carrier sold more seats per flight at higher fares. ***Sales of existing homes plunged by a record amount in September as turmoil in mortgage markets added more problems to a housing industry in its worst slump in 16 years. ***AT&T, which is the sole supplier of cellphone service on the Apple iPhone, is clearly benefiting from the device’s strong sales.

LBN-COMMENTARY By LYNN CHENEY: When I think back to 9/11, no one thought that we would be six weeks or six months without another attack. The fact that we have been safe for six years is not an accident. History will note the determination with which the President and Vice President pursued a path to keep the nation secure.

LBN-SPORTS INSIDER: ***Don Mattingly, whose true ambition was to be the Yankees manager after Joe Torre when he joined the coaching staff, was said to be impressive Tuesday when he interviewed for the job.

LBN-HOLLYWOOD INSIDER: Jessica Biel will topline UA’s crime thriller “Die a Little,” which the studio has set up with Richard Gladstein through his FilmColony banner and Biel’s Iron Ocean Films. Based on Megan Abbott’s novel, “Die a Little” explores how the lives of a schoolteacher and her LAPD detective brother are turned upside down by a mysterious woman. ***Endeavor has hired Brandt Joel away from CAA, making him a partner in the agency. Joel’s status had been the subject of rumors for the past few weeks, but CAA denied he was going anywhere. He becomes one of several former CAA agents who’ve become Endeavor partners.

ROBERT GOULET NEEDS A LUNG TRANSPLANT: Singer and actor Robert Goulet is heavily sedated and breathing through a respirator in a Los Angeles hospital while he awaits a lung transplant, his wife told The Associated Press on Tuesday.

LBN-COMMENTARY By MAUREEN DOWD: Dick Cheney’s craziness used to influence foreign policy. Now it is foreign policy. He may have lost his buddy in belligerence, Rummy. He may have tapped out the military in Iraq. He may not be able to persuade Congress so easily anymore — except for Hillary — to issue warlike resolutions. He can’t cow Condi into supporting his bullying as he once did, and Bob Gates is doing his best to instill some common sense. Besides, Cheney is running out of time to wreak global havoc; he’s working for a president who is spending his waning days on the job trying to prevent children from getting health insurance. But the vice president may have hit on a devious tactic used by his old boss Richard Nixon.

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TV LEGEND GARY COLLINS BUSTED FOR DUI SMASH UP: TMZ has learned that legendary TV host and actor Gary Collins, 69, was arrested in an L.A. suburb last night on suspicion of drunk driving after sources say his blood alcohol level was over twice the legal limit.

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LBN-OVERHEARD: ***He makes a great Elvis, but Bill Murray is no King of hearts. Posing on the premiere issue of Movies Rock magazine, the “Lost in Translation” star confesses that most women have dated him out of “morbid curiosity.” And the comic candidly described his kissing style as “semi-sloppy.” ***Lawyer David Boies, who represented Al Gore in the Bush vs. Gore 2000 recount battle in Florida, may have a new controversial client in Blackwater CEO Erik Prince, whose security company is under investigation after some of his men opened fire on Iraqi civilians. ***President Bush’s ex-sister-in-law, Sharon Bush, says she healed after her divorce from Neil Bush by becoming a devoted follower of TV evangelist Joel Osteen, for whom she hosted a private reception at the National Arts Club last week. ***James Lipton, the host of U.S. talk show, Inside the Actors’ Studio, once worked as a pimp in Paris, France. The revered TV presenter, who has sat down with Hollywood’s biggest names for in-depth chats about their life and work over the last 13 years, has revealed he once procured clients for French hookers.

DID YOU KNOW? ***The less you use your left hand, the lower your self-image is? ***The number of actual servings in 1 restaurant portion is 3? ***Soaking fruits in liquor increases their levels of disease-fighting antioxidants? ***Whole tart cherries lower the risk of metabolic syndrome? ***The oil from shrimp-like crustaceans called krill is an effective painkiller?

LBN-QUOTE: “I have no idea why we got saved and others didn’t.” — JOHN BECKER, whose house was undamaged in the California wildfires.

LBN-HISTORY: On Oct. 24, 1945, the United Nations charter took effect.


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TUESDAY • OCTOBER 23, 2007

RAGING CALIF. WILDFIRES FORCE 1M TO FLEE: Faced with unrelenting winds whipping wildfires into a frenzy across Southern California, firefighters all but conceded defeat Tuesday to an unstoppable force that has already chased nearly a million people away. Unless the shrieking Santa Ana winds subside, and that’s not expected for at least another day, fire crews say they can do little more than try to wait it out and react — tamping out spot fires and chasing ribbons of airborne embers to keep new fires from flaring. “If it’s this big and blowing with as much wind as it’s got, it’ll go all the way to the ocean before it stops,” said San Diego Fire Capt. Kirk Humphries. “We can save some stuff but we can’t stop it.”

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TUESDAY • OCTOBER 23, 2007

MORE FORCED TO FLEE CALIF. FIRES: Thousands more residents were ordered to evacuate their homes Tuesday, bringing the number of people chased away by the wind-whipped flames that have engulfed Southern California to at least 300,000. By day three, the dozen wildfires had burned more than 700 homes and set 245,957 acres - 384 square miles - ablaze, and the destruction may only be the start for the region. Tuesday’s forecast called for hotter temperatures and more explosive Santa Ana gusts.

BID TO CLAM TENSIONS IN SHOWDOWN WITH KURDS: The United States has opened a diplomatic full court press to keep Turkey from invading northern Iraq, an incursion that could further destabilize the war-torn country and the region.

BIN LADEN TELLS THUGS TO ‘UNITE’: Osama bin Laden has called for Iraqi insurgents to unite and to avoid divisive “extremism,” in an audiotaped message apparently intended to win over Sunnis opposed to al Qaeda’s branch in Iraq. In the audiotape, broadcast yesterday on al-Jazeera television, bin Laden says that insurgents should admit “mistakes” and that he even advises himself not to be extreme in his leadership.

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CHINA MOON SHOT: China will launch its first lunar probe this week, an official said yesterday - weeks after regional rival Japan put one in high orbit over the moon in a big leap forward in Asia’s undeclared space race. The rivalry is likely to be joined soon by India, which plans to send its own lunar probe into space in April.

REPORTS ASSAIL STATE DEPT. ON IRAQ SECURITY: A pair of new reports have delivered sharply critical judgments about the State Department’s performance in overseeing work done by the private companies that the government relies on increasingly in Iraq and Afghanistan to carry out delicate security work and other missions.

AIR-PERIL COVER-UP: Anxious to avoid upsetting air travelers, NASA is withholding results from an unprecedented national survey of pilots that found safety problems such as near-collisions and runway interference occur far more frequently than the government previously recognized.

NEW TO BEING DRY, THE SOUTH STRUGGLES TO ADAPT: For more than five months, the lake that provides drinking water to almost five million people here has been draining away in a withering drought. Sandy beaches have expanded into flats of orange mud. Tree stumps not seen in half a century have resurfaced. Scientists have warned of impending disaster. And life, for the most part, has gone on just as before. The response to the worst drought on record in the Southeast has unfolded in ultra-slow motion. All summer, more than a year after the drought began, fountains sprayed and football fields were watered, prisoners got two showers a day and Coca-Cola’s bottling plants chugged along at full strength. On an 81-degree day this month, an outdoor theme park began to manufacture what was intended to be a 1.2-million-gallon mountain of snow.

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COMPANIES SEEKING IMMUNITY DONATE TO SENATOR: Executives at the two biggest phone companies contributed more than $42,000 in political donations to Senator John D. Rockefeller IV this year while seeking his support for legal immunity for businesses participating in National Security Agency eavesdropping. The surge in contributions came from a Who’s Who of executives at the companies, AT&T and Verizon, starting with the chief executives and including at least 50 executives and lawyers at the two utilities, according to campaign finance reports. The money came primarily from a fund-raiser that Verizon held for Mr. Rockefeller in March in New York and another that AT&T sponsored for him in May in San Antonio.

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ENVIRONMENTAL LAWS WAIVED TO PRESS WORK ON BORDER FENCE: Michael Chertoff, the homeland security secretary, waived several environmental laws yesterday to continue building a border fence through a national conservation area in Arizona, bypassing a federal court ruling that had suspended the fence construction. Citing “unacceptable risks to our nation’s security” if the fence along the border with Mexico was further delayed, Mr. Chertoff invoked waiver authority granted him under a 2005 bill that mandated construction of the fence.

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LBN-MEDIA INSIDER: ***The Christian Filmmakers Academy, a group of Christian filmmakers, is studying animator Walt Disney and how they believe his corporate heirs at the Walt Disney Co. “went astray” from his legacy. The group contends that the company has become “an engine of cultural decline.” ***ABC News says it has ended an investigation into Alexis Debat, a terrorism analyst the network fired for falsifying his résumé. ABC concludes that the reporting he had contributed to the network was sound. In response to the incident, ABC says it will make changes to its hiring practices. ***Another longtime publishing exec is exiting Time Warner’s Time Inc. David Morris, publisher of Entertainment Weekly, is leaving the company after 21 years. The magazine will be swept under a new umbrella group called the Time Inc. Entertainment Group. ***Fox Sports is riding a wave of momentum — and heightened advertiser interest — into the World Series after the seventh and deciding game of the Red Sox-Indians series scored big numbers Sunday night. The Boston Red Sox will take on the Colorado Rockies in the Fall Classic beginning Wednesday night.

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LBN-BUSINESS INSIDER: ***House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank said he’ll seek new federal standards for mortgage lenders and to make companies that bundle loans and sell them as securities accountable. ***Consumer bankruptcy filings last month were up nearly 23 percent from a year earlier, according to the American Bankruptcy Institute, the Wall Street Journal reported on its Web site. It said many homeowners are gambling on bankruptcies to be able to keep their homes amid in creasing home loan defaults. ***GM outsold Toyota in the first nine months of the year, buoyed by sales outside the U.S. GM sold 7.06 million vehicles through September, vs. Toyota’s 7.05 million, the two companies said in separate statements. ***Ian Schrager sued a Web site operator that he accuses of using his name without permission to sell hotel services online. ***Southern California’s business leaders gather tonight for the L.A. Leadership Counsel cocktail party at Aqua in Beverly Hills.

LBN-NOTICED: ***Renowned entertainment attorney Bruce Ramer having lunch yesterday with media expert and author Michael Levine at the Grille in Beverly Hills. ***Whoopi Goldberg schlepping shopping bags on Mercer Street in NYC. ***In Beverly Hills, where Republicans might be even scarcer than in Manhattan, they all fit into Patricia Heaton’s house the other night for an “F.O.A.: Friends of Abe” party. Joining the “Back to You” star and her husband, David Hunt, were Jon Voight, Gary Sinise and Bruce Boxleitner with his wife, Melissa Gilbert. ***LCO President Dawn Miller meeting with APA President Jim Gosnell at the new APA office in Beverly Hills. ***Pish-Posh Victoria Beckham at the Celebrity Vault art gallery on Canon Drive in Beverly Hills. ***Be an LBN-Correspondent, send your celebrity sightings to LBNElert@timewire.net.

LBN-HEALTH WATCH: ***More women who have cancer in only one breast are getting both breasts removed, according to research that found the trend more than doubled in just six years. ***The sharp increase of beef recalls involving E. coli raises questions about whether the Agriculture Department has given the meat industry too much leeway to police itself. ***Poor sleep among the elderly, it turns out, is not because of aging itself, but mostly because of illnesses or the medications used to treat them. ***By all evidence, outrageously bad dreams are a universal human experience. ***Many people who take sleep medications think they work far better than laboratory measurements show they do.

LBN-HOLLYWOOD INSIDER: ***Next month a controversial new documentary “A Mormon President”, will screen in the Mormon Mecca, Salt Lake City. Chances are Romney won’t attend. Mitt declined to be interviewed for the film, which explores anti-Mormon feeling in America.

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LBN-COMMENTARY By CHRIS DODD: The truth is, I never thought I’d be running for president on a platform of restoring the Constitution and America’s standing in the world or something as elementary as honoring the oath of office we take.

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BONUS GIFT: Amy Winehouse is releasing a live DVD, and if you choose to upgrade your purchase, you get the Amy Winehouse weekend essentials: a pint glass and an ashtray. But of course! “I Told You I Was Trouble” is the ironic title of Amy’s new disc, available by itself or in the Double Trouble Combo — which includes the 16 oz. pint glass and 3.5 inch ashtray, both engraved with Amy’s name.

LBN-A DIFFERENT VIEW……Arnold Schwarzenegger’s mother-in-law, Eunice Shriver….

LBN-OVERHEARD: ***Heavily huffing hoofer Marie Osmond suddenly collapsed on stage after a robust samba routine on a live “Dancing with the Stars” last night, as a national TV audience watched in horror. “Oh, crap!” the chubby-cheeked former “Donny and Marie” star said after being revived during the wildly popular ABC show that pairs B-list celebrities with professional dancers and then has the public vote on their routines. ***A take-charge Oprah Winfrey flew to South Africa twice in 10 days after her beloved $40 million “dream” school for underprivileged girls was rocked with shocking accusations of physical and, possibly, sexual abuse of students. Winfrey canceled an Oct. 12 appearance at the American Cinematheque awards honoring Julia Roberts to meet with school officials and nervous parents. ***Those old “creative differences” are to blame for director Peter Jackson’s firing of Ryan Gosling from “Lovely Bones.” “Peter couldn’t stand Ryan,” said one source. ***Leonardo DiCaprio is looking for a new model - he’s split with his post-Gisele Bundchen babe, Bar Refaeli. ***If you thought the affair between Vogue’s Anna Wintour and reggae star Bob Marley was a shocker, how about the fling between Sally Quinn, the wife of legendary Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee, and the late Hunter S. Thompson?

DID YOU KNOW? ***The oldest inhabited city is Damascus, Syria? ***After the French Revolution of 1789, selling sour wine was considered against national interest and the merchant was promptly executed? ***The names of all the continents end with the letter they start with? ***In 1843, a Parisian street mime got stuck in his imaginary box and consequently died of starvation? ***A team of University of Virginia researchers released a study promoting the practice of picking one’s nose, claiming that the health benefits of keeping nasal passages free from infectious blockages far outweigh the negative social connotations?

LBN-QUOTE: “When you are trapped by poverty, you are not free.” — U2’s Bono.

LBN-HISTORY: On Oct. 23, 1983, a suicide truck-bombing at Beirut International Airport in Lebanon killed 241 U.S. Marines and sailors; a near-simultaneous attack on French forces killed 58 paratroopers.


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MONDAY • OCTOBER 22, 2007

CHENEY, LIKE PRESIDENT, HAS A WARNING FOR IRAN: Vice President Dick Cheney issued a pointed warning to Iran on Sunday, calling the government in Tehran “a growing obstacle to peace in the Middle East” and promising “serious consequences” if the government there does not abandon its nuclear program. The remarks, just days after President Bush suggested that a nuclear-armed Iran could lead to “World War III,” amounted to Part II of a one-two punch from the administration at a moment when it is trying to persuade its allies in Europe to impose stiffer sanctions on Tehran. Those efforts grew more complicated on Saturday when Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator resigned on the eve of crucial talks with Europe.

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MALIBU ON FIRE; WILDFIRES PUT STARS’ HOMES IN DANGER: Out-of-control wildfires threatened thousands of Southern California homes, including several celebrities, Monday, as firefighters raced to beat back the blazes that have engulfed the region, killing one, destroying buildings and forcing thousands to evacuate.

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IRAQ AND TURKEY SEE TENSIONS RISE AFTER AMBUSH: A brazen ambush by Kurdish militants that left at least 12 Turkish soldiers dead touched off a major escalation in Turkey-Iraq tensions on Sunday, bringing fears that Turkey would retaliate immediately by sending troops across the border into Iraq. But Turkey’s prime minister said he delayed a decision, after Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice personally intervened.

JOINT CHIEFS CHAIRMAN LOOKS BEYOND CURRENT WARS: The new chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff plans to press Congress and the public to sustain the current high levels of military spending — even after the Iraq war — arguing for money to repair and replace worn-out weapons and to restore American ground forces he described as “breakable,” though not yet broken. The new chairman, Adm. Mike Mullen, expressed deep concerns that the long counterinsurgency missions in Iraq and Afghanistan have so consumed the military that the Army and Marine Corps may be unprepared for a high-intensity war against a major adversary.

KILLER MACAQUE ATTACK; INDIAN OFFICIAL DIES AFTER WILD MONKEY ATTACK: Wild monkeys attacked a senior government official - who then fell from a balcony at his home and died yesterday. New Delhi Deputy Mayor S.S. Bajwa was rushed to a hospital after the attack by a gang of rhesus macaques, but succumbed to head injuries sustained in his fall, The Press Trust of India news agency and The Times of India reported. Many government buildings, temples and residential neighborhoods in New Delhi are overrun by rhesus macaques, which scare passers-by and occasionally bite visitors or snatch food from them.

WHO READS THE LBN E-LERT?: Six (6) U.S. Senators along with approximately 232,000 other “influencers”.

LBN-MEDIA INSIDER: ***Two media figures: L.A. Times columnist Joel Stein and KNX anchor Frank Mottek are the joint guests of honor at the L.A. Leadership Counsel tomorrow at 6:30pm at Aqua Lounge in Beverly Hills. ***Fox Business Network, which launched Oct. 15, apparently took some viewers away from rival CNBC during its first four days on the air. From Oct. 15 to 18, CNBC averaged 257,000 viewers from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m., down 12% from 293,000 weekday watchers the previous week.

LBN-HOLLYWOOD INSIDER: ***The vampire chiller “30 Days of Night” bloodied the competition at the box office over the weekend, according to studio estimates released yesterday ***ICM has upped Nicole Clemens to co-head of the agency’s motion picture literary department. She joins current co-heads Doug MacLaren and Nick Reed. In her new post, Clemens will be responsible for day-to-day management of the department. ***Crash co-producers Cathy Shulman and Tom Nunan are suing former colleague Bob Yari, who has controlling interest in the Best Picture Oscar winner, claiming they’re still owed a share of the profits.

LBN-NOTICED: ***Newly engaged Rose McGowan sitting on fiancé Robert Rodriguez’s lap and showing off her ring at a dinner hosted by the Marni fashion line for their latest store in L.A. ***Famed literary agent Sterling Lord, Sylvia Miles and Candida Royalle at restaurateur Zarela Martinez’s 60th birthday bash at her East 50s eatery in NYC. ***Kathy Griffin and beau Steve Wozniak making out at the Monte Carlo Resort/Casino in Las Vegas after her sold-out show at the Mandalay Bay.

LBN-COMMENTARY BY MARK DEO: We may be paying 30 to 50 cents more per six pack and several microbrewers will not survive the year due to the recent shortage of hops. Bad weather and poor planning left growers short on supply ratcheting-up the price of the little flowers that make beer taste good. All this goes to show that even small business players need to be concerned about supply chain management. Are you in touch with your suppliers issues? What contingencies do you have in place to ensure that you have the raw materials you need to ensure your market success? If not, you better hop to it! Mark Deo is Executive Director of The Small Business Advisory Network (SBA Network) and executive business coach. To reply directly to him, send an e-mail to LBNElert@timewire.net.

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LBN-BUSINESS INSIDER: ***Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson told the World Bank meeting in Washington yesterday that the institution should focus on lending to poor countries and trim funds for China, India and other middle-income nations that are luring private capital. Middle-income countries accounted for more than half of the $23 billion in World Bank aid last year. New World Bank President Robert Zoellick has said he favors continuing such lending. ***Chrysler LLC’s contract with the United Auto Workers has been rejected by bigger union locals during the first three days of voting and supported by smaller groups, dimming prospects for the accord’s approval.

LIKE MOTHER, LIKE DAUGHTER: Meryl Streep’s daughter Mamie Gummer, is headed to The Great White Way. She was overheard at The Plumm telling a pal that her play “The Autumn Garden,” which she starred in over the summer in Williamstown, is coming to Broadway and she’ll be in it.

LBN-A DIFFERENT VIEW……The late President Gerald R. Ford…..

LBN-OVERHEARD: ***Maternally challenged Britney Spears may be paying lip service to the wholesome image of star mom Angelina Jolie - with a shocking new pair of look-alike puckers. Spears was spotted ducking into a doctor’s office for a collagen injection on Friday, then reappearing with considerably thicker lips, according to reports. ***Bad-boy belter Kid Rock battered a man at a Waffle House in Atlanta yesterday, cops said. The moody musician, whose real name is Robert James Ritchie, and five members of his entourage were busted in the early-morning brawl. ***Ellen DeGeneres’ latest doggy dealing wasn’t the first time she’d passed along a pup she’d adopted, says a Los Angeles producer who gave the talk-show queen a pooch she quickly got rid of. Kerri Randles says she gave DeGeneres a male mutt named Stormy two years ago, only to find out less than two months later that fickle Ellen had re-gifted him to a member of her staff. ***Michael Tylo Jr., son of soap opera star Hunter Tylo, has died in a swimming pool accident. He was 19.

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LBN-CURRENTLY READING: Henry Winkler (star of ‘Berkeley’) is reading The Secret Servant by Daniel Silva.

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LBN-HISTORY: On Oct. 22, 1962, President John F. Kennedy announced an air and naval blockade of Cuba, following the discovery of Soviet missile bases on the island.

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SUNDAY • OCTOBER 21, 2007

HALF SHUN HILL: Half of likely voters nationwide would never vote for Hillary Rodham Clinton in next year’s presidential election, a poll released yesterday reveals. Nearly 50 percent of 10,000 registered voters surveyed ruled out supporting New York’s junior senator, according to the Zogby Interactive poll. That is up from the 46 percent who said in March that they’d refuse to vote for her.

SYRIA SHUTS MAIN EXIT FROM WAR FOR IRAQIS: Long the only welcoming country in the region for Iraqi refugees, Syria has closed its borders to all but a small group of Iraqis and imposed new visa rules that will legally require the 1.5 million Iraqis currently in Syria to return to Iraq.

LBN-BUSINESS INSIDER: ***Americans may be paying less for poultry this winter thanks to a chicken war that has broken out between the U.S. and Russia.

LBN-COMMENTARY BY THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN: People often ask: I want to get greener, what should I do? New light bulbs? A hybrid? A solar roof? Well, all of those things are helpful. But actually, the greenest thing you can do is this: Choose the right leaders. It is so much more important to change your leaders than change your light bulbs. Why? Because leaders write the rules, set the standards and offer the tax incentives that drive market behavior across a whole city, state or country. Whatever any of us does individually matters a tiny bit. But when leaders change the rules, you get scale change across the whole marketplace. And the energy-climate challenge we face today is a huge scale problem. Without scale, all you have is a green hobby. Have no illusions, everything George Bush wouldn’t do on energy after 9/11 — his resisting improved mileage for cars and actually trying to weaken air-conditioner standards — swamped any good works you did. Fortunately, the vacuum in the White House is being filled by leaders from below.

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TIGHTER BORDER DELAYS RE-ENTRY BY U.S. CITIZENS: United States border agents have stepped up scrutiny of Americans returning home from Mexico, slowing commerce and creating delays at border crossings not seen since the months after the Sept. 11 attacks. The increased enforcement is in part a dress rehearsal for new rules, scheduled to take effect in January, that will require Americans to show a passport or other proof of citizenship to enter the United States. The requirements were approved by Congress as part of antiterrorism legislation in 2004.

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LBN-COMMENTARY BY BEN STEIN: I just want to say that a good, fresh Taco Supreme from Taco Bell is more tasty than just about anything at any fancy-pants restaurant anywhere in the world. And they didn’t pay me, and they don’t even know me. Just for perspective.

LBN-COMMENTARY BY MAUREEN DOWD: I’m a microtrend. Hillary’s programmer says so. I’m mentioned in a section of Mark Penn’s new book, “Microtrends,” called “Impressionable Elites.” It could have been worse. At least I wasn’t in the sections on Cougars, French Teetotalers, The Mildly Disordered, Aspiring Snipers or Unisexuals. Unisex, a trend started by hip hair salons in the ’70s, has blossomed into a “third-sex category” that some say will be “the next wave of the civil rights movement,” Mr. Penn writes. “Sure, only a few people take opposite-sex hormones, or dress up in their spouse’s clothes,” he says, “but since the 1970s there has been a substantial blurring of the line between ‘male’ and ‘female’ in terms of habits, tastes, and fashions. And the marketers are picking up on it.”

LBN-SNAP:…..Jerry Seinfeld…..

INDIAN IMMIGRANTS’ SON NEW LA. GOVERNOR: U.S. Rep. Bobby Jindal easily defeated 11 opponents and became the state’s first nonwhite governor since Reconstruction, decades after his parents moved to the state from India to pursue the American dream. Jindal, a 36-year-old Republican, will be the nation’s youngest governor. He had 53 percent with 625,036 votes with about 92 percent of the vote tallied. It was more than enough to win Saturday’s election outright and avoid a Nov. 17 runoff.

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LBN-COMMENTARY BY FRANK RICH: Charles D. Riechers, not the first suicide connected to the Iraq war’s corruption scandals, is a window into the culture of the whole debacle.

MAHER MUZZLES MORON: Bill Maher can add “security guard” to his job description, alongside “comedian” and “political commentator,” after helping remove a rowdy protester from his weekly HBO show. Maher was talking science during Friday’s “Real Time with Bill Maher” panel discussion when a man in the audience stood, held up a smuggled-in sign that read, “9/11 is a cover-up fraud,” and shouted.

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LBN-MEDIA INSIDER: ***Entertainment critic Gary Franklin died earlier this month in Chatsworth, California after several strokes.

LBN-COMMENTARY BY DOUG GILES: The atheist’s days of running circles around the Christian with their darling questions are drawing to a close. Yes, the fat lady just wrenched herself off her humongous backside, has cleared her throat and now is fixin’ to sing the finale on the atheist’s ability to have fun with their specious little fairy tales at the Christians’ expense. That is if the Christian will buy, devour, commit to memory and stand up and challenge the pouty anti-God cabal with the atheist-slaying facts found in two new books from Regnery namely, What’s So Great about Christianity and The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Bible.

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LBN-BOOK NEWS: ***The infamous Dupont twins, Richard and Robert, are shopping a book deal about their wild youth misspent at Studio 54 and Andy Warhol’s Factory. The twins, who once worked for Martha Stewart, are repped by literary agent David Kuhn and have received a lot of attention since New York magazine profiled them and their debauchery last week. They’re promising to spill details of their friendships, loves and nights out with Mick Jagger, Truman Capote, Halston, Salvador Dali and Jackie Onassis.

WHO READS THE LBN E-LERT: The Mayors of San Diego, Baltimore, Miami, Boston and Philadelphia along with approximately 232,000 other “influencers”.

LBN-SPORTS INSIDER: ***Max McGee, the unexpected hero of the first Super Bowl and a long-time challenge for Hall of Fame coach Vince Lombardi, died Saturday after falling from the roof of his home, police confirmed. He was 75.

LBN-VIDEO LINK: David Letterman v. Richard Simmons, Round #4,726 Why, you ask, does Richard Simmons subject himself to Letterman’s humiliation year after year after year?

LBN-COMMENTARY BY MIKE FARRELL: I’m worried because the same media that turned Saddam into Hitler now confers the title on the hapless tool Ahmadinejad. Despite the disaster in Iraq, the neocons remain in full-throated war cry.

LBN-A DIFFERENT VIEW…..The late George Harrison…..

LBN-OVERHEARD: ***”Lord of the Rings” star Orlando Bloom could face felony charges for briefly leaving the scene of a Hollywood car crash, it was reported yesterday. The LAPD is expected to turn the case over to the district attorney “in a week or so,” according to the Web site TMZ. ***Friends of ex-reality star Brittny Gastineau are worried over her drastic weight loss. “She’s trying to get her modeling career off the ground, and she’s only 105 pounds now,” said a friend of the 5-foot-11 star of “Gastineau Girls.”

DID YOU KNOW? ***The first McDonald’s restaurant opened in Des Plaines, Illinois in 1955; first day’s revenues were $366.12. ***Although calcium is important to bone strength, 99% of the calcium in the human body is in the teeth. ***Canadian researchers have developed a computer program that can never be beaten at the game checkers. ***47% of dogs in the United States sleep in a family member’s bed. ***A team of scientists melted Antarctic ice and revived bacteria frozen for 8,000,000 years.

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Soul to soul, our shadows rollAnd I’ll be with you when the deal goes down—–Bob Dylan.

LBN-HISTORY: On Oct. 21, 1879, Thomas Edison invented a workable electric light at his laboratory in Menlo Park, N.J.

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SATURDAY • OCTOBER 20, 2007

BLACK FRIDAY II; DOW PLUNGES 366.94 ON CRASH ANNIVERSARY: In a fitting tribute to the 20th anniversary of the stock market crash of 1987, the bottom fell out of the Dow yesterday as corporate earnings continued to fall short of expectations and crude oil prices marched upward. The Dow Jones industrial average dropped 366.94 points, or 2.64 percent, to 13,522.02 - the biggest one-day decline in two months.

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AFTER BOMBING, BHUTTO ASSAILS OFFICIALS’ TIES: Looking pale and shaken the day after she survived a suicide bomb attack, the opposition leader Benazir Bhutto said Friday that she had warned the Pakistani government that suicide bomb squads were going to go after her on her return to the country and that it had failed to act on the information. Ms. Bhutto did not blame the president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, for the bomb blasts and said extremist Islamic groups who wanted to take over the country were behind the attacks, which killed 134 people. But she pointed the finger at government officials who she said were sympathetic to the militants and were abusing their powers to advance their cause. She did not identify them on Friday, but said she had in a letter to the government this Tuesday. It was not clear if she was implicating the officials directly or accusing them of dragging their feet on her warning.

MOVIE AND TV WRITERS AUTHORIZE A CALL TO STRIKE: Screenwriters, by a sizable majority, authorized their leaders to call a strike against Hollywood’s producers as early as Nov. 1, in votes disclosed Friday. Meanwhile, bargainers for both sides this week felt their way toward something missing from their stalled talks: the kind of unofficial conversations that led to deals in the past.

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IRAN TO FIRE ‘11,000 ROCKETS IN MINUTE’ IF ATTACKED: Iran warned on Saturday it would fire off 11,000 rockets at enemy bases within the space of a minute if the United States launched military action against the Islamic republic. “In the first minute of an invasion by the enemy, 11,000 rockets and cannons would be fired at enemy bases,” said a brigadier general in the elite Revolutionary Guards, Mahmoud Chaharbaghi. “This volume and speed of firing would continue,” added Chaharbaghi, who is commander of artillery and missiles of the Guards’ ground forces, according to the semi-official Fars news agency. The Iranian government announced Saturday that its top nuclear negotiator had resigned, a move seen as a victory for hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that could bring about an even tougher stance in ongoing talks.

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OFFICIAL: AIR ATTACK TARGETED NASCENT NUCLEAR FACILITY BUILT WITH NORTH KOREAN ‘EXPERTISE’: Israeli officials believed that a target their forces bombed inside Syria last month was a nuclear facility, because they had detailed photographs taken by a possible spy inside the complex, ABC News has learned. The Bush administration has steadfastly refused to say anything about the Israeli raid on Syria, or to confirm what was hit. But ABC News has learned of the apparent mole and other dramatic and secret details about the events leading up to the airstrike, plus the evidence that supported it.

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NO BACKUP IF ATLANTA’S FAUCETS RUN DRY: With the South in the grip of an epic drought and its largest city holding less than a 90-day supply of water, officials are scrambling to deal with the worst-case scenario: What if Atlanta’s faucets really do go dry? So far, no real backup plan exists. And there are no quick fixes among suggested solutions, which include piping water in from rivers in neighboring states, building more regional reservoirs, setting up a statewide recycling system or even desalinating water from the Atlantic Ocean.

LBN-HEALTH WATCH: ***Cold and cough medicines don’t work in children and shouldn’t be used in those younger than 6, federal health advisers recommended yesterday. ***The nation’s schools have made “considerable improvements” in nutrition, fitness and health over the last six years, according to a new government survey

LBN-MEDIA INSIDER: ***The two principal owners of The Phoenix New Times were arrested Thursday, but were then released and charges of disclosing information about a grand jury dropped. ***After Rush Limbaugh referred to Iraq war veterans critical of the war as “phony soldiers,” he received a letter of complaint signed by 41 Democratic senators. He decided to auction the letter, which he described as “this glittering jewel of colossal ignorance,” for charity, and he pledged to match the price, dollar for dollar. On Thursday night, Mr. Limbaugh, the conservative radio talk show host, said he thought the letter would bring in as much as $1 million. He was wrong. When the eBay auction closed yesterday afternoon, the winning bid was $2.1 million. It is the largest amount ever paid for an item sold on eBay to benefit a charity. The money will go to the Marine Corps-Law Enforcement Foundation Inc., a nonprofit organization in New Jersey that provides scholarships and other assistance to families of Marines and federal law enforcement officials who die or are wounded in the line of duty. Mr. Limbaugh is a director of the organization, which had total revenues of $5.2 million last year. ***Media expert and author Michael Levine speaks today to The Independent Writers of Southern California at the Veterans Memorial Building in Culver City.

LBN-NOTICED: ***Film and TV composer Bill Conn having dinner last night with health expert Craig Hollander at the Border Grill in Santa Monica.

PELOSI REBUKES STARK FOR IRAQ COMMENTS: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi rebuked a fellow San Francisco Bay-area liberal Friday for what she said were “inappropriate” comments about Iraq during a congressional debate. During a debate on children’s health care Thursday, Rep. Pete Stark accused Republicans of sending troops to Iraq to “get their heads blown off for the president’s amusement.”

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FRED’S SENATE VOTES OFTEN LIBERAL: Fred Thompson insists he’s the most consistently conservative Republican in the race for president, yet he often championed the cause of liberal trial lawyers by voting against tort reform, his Senate voting record shows. “[The majority of his votes were] against measures seeking to discourage runaway lawsuits,” said the Club for Growth, a pro-business group.

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LBN-SPORTS INSIDER: ***Embattled former NFL superstar Michael Vick is practically homeless. Vick’s Georgia mansion went on the market earlier this week for $4.5 million. His real-estate agent, Tony Funari, said there were already several serious inquiries into the lakefront home in the wealthy Sugarloaf Country Club community of Duluth, an Atlanta suburb. ***Joe Torre had a hunch it would come to this. And when the New York Yankees offered him a one-year contract with a hefty paycut, performance-based bonuses — and no room to negotiate — he was insulted and figured he had no choice but to walk away. “The fact that somebody is reducing your salary is just telling me they’re not satisfied with what you’re doing,” Torre said Friday at a news conference. “There really was no negotiation involved. I was hoping there would be, but there wasn’t.

LBN-BOOK NEWS: ***Harry Potter fans, the rumors are true: Albus Dumbledore, master wizard and Headmaster of Hogwarts, is gay. J.K. Rowling, author of the mega-selling fantasy series that ended last summer, outed the beloved character last night while appearing before a full house at Carnegie Hall.

LBN-BUSINESS INSIDER: ***Overstock.com rose the most in more than two weeks after saying its third-quarter loss narrowed to $4.7 million, or 20 cents a share, compared with $24.5 million, or $1.19, a year earlier. ***Wachovia Corp. reported its first earnings decline in six years and missed analysts’ estimates after a record $1.3 billion of writedowns for bad loans and mortgage-backed securities. ***Yahoo! Inc.’s chief marketing officer is leaving the company in two weeks, joining a management exodus that has unfolded as the firm tries to snap out of a financial funk.

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LBN-OVERHEARD: ***Bill Maher can add “security guard” to his job description alongside comedian and political commentator. Maher helped security give the boot to a rowdy protester from the studio of his weekly HBO show Real Time with Bill Maher on Friday night, and it was all captured on live television. Maher was talking science during one of his weekly panel discussions when a protester in his audience stood, held up a smuggled-in sign reading “9/11 is a cover up fraud” and shouted comments to the same effect.

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FRIDAY • OCTOBER 19, 2007

QAEDA MASSACRE TARGETS BHUTTO; PAKISTAN BIG OK AS BLASTS KILL 125+: Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto - who strongly supports America’s war on terror - narrowly escaped assassination yesterday when horrific explosions rocked her motorcade and slaughtered her supporters as she returned after eight years in exile.

SENATORS CLASH WITH NOMINEE ABOUT TORTURE: President Bush’s nominee for attorney general, Michael B. Mukasey, declined Thursday to say if he considered harsh interrogation techniques like waterboarding, which simulates drowning, to constitute torture or to be illegal if used on terrorism suspects. On the second day of confirmation hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Mr. Mukasey went further than he had the day before in arguing that the White House had constitutional authority to act beyond the limits of laws enacted by Congress, especially when it came to national defense. He suggested that both the administration’s program of eavesdropping without warrants and its use of “enhanced” interrogation techniques for terrorism suspects, including waterboarding, might be acceptable under the Constitution even if they went beyond what the law technically allowed. Mr. Mukasey said the president’s authority as commander in chief might allow him to supersede laws written by Congress.

DEMS SHORT OF VETO KO: House Democrats were unable yesterday to override President Bush’s veto of their pre-election year effort to expand a popular government health insurance program to cover about 10 million children.

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NERVY NIFONG IS BILL-IFIED: The North Carolina Attorney General’s Office has refused former prosecutor Mike Nifong’s request that the state represent him or pay his legal bills from a civil lawsuit against him filed by three Duke lacrosse players cleared of rape. Nifong, who left his Durham County job in disgrace after the disastrous prosecution, had cited his role as a constitutional officer of the state.

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HASTERT TO LEAVE BEFORE TERM ENDS: Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert will resign before his term ends 15 months from now, ending a 21-year career in Congress, Republican aides said yesterday.

LBN-NOTICED: ***Prominent cosmetic surgeon Dr. Robert Kotler was saluted last night at a book signing cocktail party at Spa 415 in Beverly Hills. ***Madonna in the eye of a hurricane of people at the Peninsula Lounge. ***Tyra Banks getting her hair done at Warren Tricomi in West Hollywood. ***Fergie and Josh Duhamel at Whiskey Blue in L.A.’s W. ***Jamie-Lynnn Sigler sweater shopping at Intermix in Los Angeles. ***Janet Jackson celebrating her niece’s birthday at L Scorpion in Hollywood. Be an LBN Correspondent - send your celeb sightings to LBNElert@timewire.net.

DOG WALK OF FAME: Bow wow, and take a bow: The furry and famous of the silver screen are being honored with their own walk of fame in London. The first inductees will be six dogs chosen by public vote from a short list that includes Lassie and Toto of “The Wizard of Oz,” organizers said yesterday.

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LAST ‘RAT’ PACKS IT IN; JOEY BISHOP: 1918-2007: Joey Bishop, the stone-faced comedian who found success in nightclubs, television and movies, but became most famous as a member of Frank Sinatra’s Rat Pack, has died at 89.

LBN-MEDIA INSIDER: ***When the American Magazine Conference tapped Men’s Health editor David Zinczenko as this year’s chairman, his toughest challenge was to book a speaker for the group’s annual event in Boca Raton, Fla., on Oct. 28. Zinczenko seems pleased he landed former presidential press secretary Tony Snow, who stepped down just last month. “Tony’s got some serious cojones to grant this kind of access,” says Zinczenko. “But when you’ve stared down cancer more than once, a few hundred media executives isn’t nearly as scary.” Other power players jetting to Boca for the schmoozefest include Arianna Huffington, Dan Rather, NBC Universal digital president Beth Comstock and Chrysler CEO Robert Nardelli. ***In an effort to counter a string of bad news, CBS’s chief executive delivered a strong message to his programming troops last spring: find us another hit, fast.

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LBN-COMMENTARY BY MANOHLA DARGIS: With “Gone Baby Gone,” Ben Affleck has taken a satisfyingly tough look into conscience, to those dark places where some men also go astray.

LBN-BOOK NEWS: ***Paul McCartney - from one hot-water bucket into another. Following the lovely and gracious ex-wife, Heather, comes now another zap. Denny Laine, from the 1980s, from the band Wings, is doing an autobio that opens McCartney’s centuries-old marijuana arrest when en route to Japan. Sir Paul won’t be happy.

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LBN-POLITICAL BRIEFING BY PEGGY NOONAN: Where do things stand now with Hillary Clinton? What is her trajectory almost a year since it became clear she was running for the presidency? Some time back I said she doesn’t have to prove she is a man, she has to prove she is a woman. Her problem is not her sex, as she and her campaign pretend. That she is a woman is a boon to her, a source of latent power. But to make it work, she has to seem like a woman.

LBN-HOLLYWOOD INSIDER: ***Ellen DeGeneres’ talk show was put on hold for a day because of her emotionally wrenching dog-adoption drama. “It’s been a long week and a tough week and we decided to take a long weekend and be back on Tuesday,” said Laura Mandel, a spokeswoman for Telepictures Productions, which produces “The Ellen DeGeneres Show.”

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LBN-COMMENTARY By JACK KEMP: Dear senators and members of Congress: I recently visited NASDAQ on behalf of NFL Hall of Famer Ronnie Lott to help raise money for his “All Stars Helping Kids” program, and while I was there I had the opportunity to say in my luncheon remarks on Wall Street that I’ve long believed that where capital investment and trade are crossing borders, armies don’t. In an increasingly flat world, to draw on Thomas Friedman’s very apt metaphor for our globalizing planet, it behooves us to welcome foreign investment and trade and take caution not to discourage it out of fear or shortsighted protectionist measures. Yes, we have to be careful, but an open world trading system leads ultimately to a more peaceful and prosperous world.

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SINGER AMY WINEHOUSE ARRESTED IN NORWAY: British singer-songwriter Amy Winehouse was arrested in Norway for marijuana possession and held overnight, a police official said Friday. Winehouse, her husband Blake Fielder-Civil and a third person were released at around 7:00 a.m. Friday after paying $715 in fines, Prosecutor Lars Morten Lothe said.

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UNTIMELY: Rod Stewart’s 27-year-old son, Sean, showed up to court 25 minutes late Thursday to plead not guilty to felony charges of assault and vandalism stemming from an alleged attack on a couple in the Hollywood Hills in April. The judge warned Stewart to be punctual for his next court date, a Nov. 26 pretrial hearing. “People have to come to court on time,” the judge said. “I’m not waiting for defendants.”

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THURSDAY • OCTOBER 18, 2007

TORRE DECLINES YANKEES’ OFFER TO CONTINUE AS MANAGER: Joe Torre is out as manager of the New York Yankees, rejecting a substantial pay cut after the team failed to make it past the first round of the playoffs for the third straight year. Torre turned down a $5 million, one-year contract Thursday that still would have made him the highest paid manager in baseball. Bench coach Don Mattingly is the leading contender to replace Torre, who led the Yanks to 12 straight playoff appearances and won four World Series championships. Yankees broadcaster Joe Girardi, the NL Manager of the Year with Florida in 2006, is another top contender. “It’s a difficult day,” general manager Brian Cashman said. Torre, who took over the team to start the 1996 season, made his decision after traveling from New York to the team’s spring training complex in Tampa. He was accompanied by Cashman and chief operating officer Lonn Trost.

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THURSDAY • OCTOBER 18, 2007

MOST FAKE BOMBS MISSED BY SCREENERS; 75% NOT DETECTED AT LAX; 60% AT O’HARE: Security screeners at two of the nation’s busiest airports failed to find fake bombs hidden on undercover agents posing as passengers in more than 60% of tests last year, according to a classified report obtained by USA TODAY. Screeners at Los Angeles International Airport missed about 75% of simulated explosives and bomb parts that Transportation Security Administration testers hid under their clothes or in carry-on bags at checkpoints, the TSA report shows.

BHUTTO BACK IN PAKISTAN AFTER 8-YEAR EXILE: Benazir Bhutto, the Pakistani opposition leader and former prime minister, arrived in Pakistan this afternoon, ending her eight-year exile in a return that is expected to reconfigure the country’s already unsettled political landscape. She stepped down onto the tarmac at Karachi airport at around 2 p.m. local time after a flight from the United Arab Emirates, wearing a green shalwar kameez — a traditional Muslim outfit — and white head scarf, the colors of the Pakistani flag.

ATTORNEY GENERAL PICK TREADS CAREFUL LINE AT HEARING: President Bush’s nominee for attorney general, Michael B. Mukasey, promised on Wednesday to block political meddling at the Justice Department but did not distance himself from the Bush administration’s most controversial antiterrorism policies. Appearing at a confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Mr. Mukasey, a retired federal judge from New York, walked a careful line. He tried to assure lawmakers that he would be far more independent of the White House than the previous attorney general, Alberto R. Gonzales, while not backing away from many of the disputed policies that Mr. Gonzales advocated on Mr. Bush’s behalf.

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RICE PRAYS FOR PEACE MIRACLE: After praying at the traditional birthplace of Jesus, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said yesterday that Israelis and Palestinians are facing a “moment of opportunity” for peace. Wrapping up four days of shuttle diplomacy, Rice pushed for a proposed, U.S.-hosted peace conference.

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PUTIN WARNS U.S. OVER MISSILE SHIELD: Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday the United States was seeking ways to resolve differences over a planned missile shield, but warned that Moscow could re-deploy weapons if its concerns were not heeded. Washington plans to place interceptor missiles in Poland and a radar system in the Czech Republic as part of a shield it says is needed to counter possible missile attacks from “rogue states” such as Iran and North Korea.

IRAQI CONTRACTS WITH IRAN AND CHINA CONCERN U.S.: Iraq has agreed to award $1.1 billion in contracts to Iranian and Chinese companies to build a pair of enormous power plants, the Iraqi electricity minister said Tuesday. Word of the project prompted serious concerns among American military officials, who fear that Iranian commercial investments can mask military activities at a time of heightened tension with Iran.

O.J. COHORT: GUNS WERE ALL HIS IDEA: O.J. Simpson wanted armed men with him when he confronted two sports-memorabilia dealers, according to a co-defendant who has agreed to plead guilty and testify against the former football star. “O.J. said ‘Hey, just bring some firearms,’ ” Walter Alexander told police, according to a transcript of his tape-recorded statement obtained by The Associated Press.

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LBN-COMMENTARY By PAULA DUFFY: Tiger Woods has set a new standard for understanding the power of celebrity endorsements. Gatorade’s decision to let Tiger have his own line of products proves that he has transcended the ordinary. Without much fanfare Nike became the first sponsor to go that route with Tiger. He is allowed to use his own TW logo on his golf hat during the first few days of golf tournaments; the Nike Swoosh takes second place to Tiger’s own brand. The difference with this new arrangement is that a press release has been issued about it. I’ll bet the reason Tiger and Buick parted ways is because Tiger wanted his own branded model Buick and they said no. Are they crazy? Paula Duffy is founder of Incidental Contact: ‘A sports learning site for women.’ To respond to her, send an e-mail to LBNElert@timewire.net.

LBN-HEALTH WATCH: ***A single gene may be crucial for the final stages of sperm-cell formation and could help explain why some men are infertile, researchers said yesterday. Laboratory mice who lacked the gene had a significantly lower sperm count and were infertile, researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill discovered. ***A cheap drug that prevents a complication in pregnancy could save the lives of tens of thousands of women in poor countries each year, a health group said yesterday. Eclampsia, which pushes blood pressure to fatal levels, kills 63,000 women a year, the international nonprofit EngenderHealth said.

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MAINE MIDDLE SCHOOL TO OFFER CONTRACEPTIVES: After an outbreak of pregnancies among middle school girls, education officials in this city have decided to allow one school’s health center to make birth control pills available to girls as young as 11. King Middle School will become the first middle school in Maine to make a full range of contraception available, including birth control pills, patches and condoms. There are no national figures on how many middle schools provide such services. Most middle schoolers range in age from 11 to 13.

LBN-NOTICED: ***Tina Fey, in sunglasses, walking a baby stroller on West 79th Street in NYC with her husband. ***Victoria Beckham at The Celebrity Vault Gallery in Beverly Hills last night. ***Drew Barrymore dining at the Formosa Café in Hollywood. ***Jennifer Aniston running into Lisa Kudrow at the Sunset Tower Hotel in West Hollywood. *** Brooke Burke sipping cocktails and planning her wedding nuptials at the Wedding Salon In L.A. ***Jessica Alba enjoying a massage at Ole Henriksen Face/Body in Los Angeles. ***A relaxing Ben Affleck playing baseball on his Nintendo Wii between takes of He’s Just Not That Into You in L.A .

BRITNEY’S VISITATION SUSPENDED: TMZ has learned Britney Spears has had her visitation rights with her kids suspended until she complies with all court orders. The order by L.A. County Commissioner Scott Gordon came after K-Fed’s lawyer, Mark Vincent Kaplan, went to court yesterday for an emergency hearing.

LBN-COMMENTARY By GOV. BILL RICHARDSON: Real leadership is about making the tough choices, and knowing when it is time to make bold moves. Ending this war requires real change, not more incrementalism.

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LBN-BUSINESS INSIDER: ***Wall Street ended a volatile session mixed yesterday as investors’ concerns about sluggish housing and tight credit intensified their unease over a motley batch of corporate profits. The Dow fell 20.40, or 0.15 percent, to close at 13,892.54, paring the session’s worst losses. The Dow fell more than 130 points in earlier trading. ***Tiffany & Co., the world’s second- largest luxury-jewelry retailer, said it will open more stores in the U.S. than previously planned, using a smaller store format targeting shoppers who buy jewelry for themselves. Tiffany expects to operate as many as 170 stores in the U.S., the company said yesterday. ***Rabbit-eared televisions are officially going the way of the 8-Track tape. Best Buy, the nation’s biggest consumer electronics retailer, said yesterday that it has yanked all analog TVs from its store shelves to make way for digital sets. ***EBay reported a third-quarter net loss of $936 million, or 69 cents per diluted share, compared with a profit of $281 million, or 20 cents per diluted share, a year earlier. The loss was due to a $1.39 bil lion write-down on the purchase of Web-based phone service Skype. ***E*Trade, this year’s worst-performing U.S. brokerage stock, re ported its first loss in five years and slashed its 2007 forecast because of rising costs for bad debt at its online bank.

MILITARY INADVERTENTLY RECRUITS GAYS: The Army, Navy and Air Force unwittingly advertised for recruits on a website for gays, who are barred from military service if they are open about their sexual orientation. When informed Tuesday by USA TODAY that they were advertising on GLEE.com, a networking website for gay professionals, recruiters expressed surprise and said they would remove the job listings.

LBN-HOLLYWOOD INSIDER: ***Although SAG and AFTRA will have to band together soon for tough contract negotiations with studios and nets, internecine warfare has broken out between them over contract poaching, among other issues. The Screen Actors Guild has taken a blistering shot at the American Federation of Television & Radio Artists for poaching contracts on cable shows, prompting AFTRA to accuse SAG of trying to muscle its way into control of the smaller union. ***UTA will defer salaries of high-level agents and executives earning six figures or more — repeating a move it made when a Hollywood strike loomed six years ago. Those employees will defer 20% of their paychecks, beginning on Nov. 1, if the Writers Guild goes on strike or studios institute a lockout in November. ***British actress Deborah Kerr, who shared one of cinema’s most famous kisses with Burt Lancaster in “From Here to Eternity,” has died, her agent said Thursday. She was 86. Kerr, who suffered from Parkinson’s disease, died Tuesday in Suffolk, eastern England, he said.

LBN-COMMENTARY BY RALPH PETERS: We simplify the problems of others. It’s bad enough when we do it to family and friends, but it can be fatal when we simplify the problems of the developing world. The generally accepted line is that all civilian leaders are good, while military coups are always bad. Like most such generalities, it’s often wrong. Our prejudice is on display again as Benazir Bhutto, a feudal landlord posing as a democrat, returns to Pakistan.

LBN-MEDIA INSIDER: ***Shares in the New York Times Co. skidded to their lowest level in a decade Wednesday after disgruntled Morgan Stanley fund manager Hassan Elmasry sold his entire stake.

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NORMAN MAILER IN HOSPITAL AFTER SURGERY: Norman Mailer is recovering in a hospital after surgery to remove scar tissue around his lung, his daughter-in-law said Wednesday.

WEDDING PLANNER: Tracey Edmonds has revealed she plans to wed Eddie Murphy “before the end of the year.” The setting for the wedding will be “someplace far away and fun,” Edmonds told People, with just “very close friends and family” looking on.

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LBN-OVERHEARD: ***Claudia Schiffer says there’s only one supermodel in the world today. Gisele Bundchen. She says: “You’re only a ’supermodel’ if you’re on all the covers the world over at the same time - and that’s Gisele. I’ve seen her in Europe, France, Brazil, U.S.”. ***Francis Ford Coppola disses Robert De Niro, Jack Nicholson and Al Pacino in a surprising critique of three of America’s greatest actors. In the new GQ magazine, Coppola reveals that he’s disappointed in the three as they’ve gotten older — and richer.

LBN-DID YOU KNOW? ***There are more plastic flamingos in the U.S. than real ones? ***In Tokyo, they sell toupees for dogs? ***Recycling one glass jar saves enough energy to watch T.V. for 3 hours? ***Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying? ***Every day 20 banks are robbed? The average take is $2,500.

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WEDNESDAY • OCTOBER 17, 2007

PLAN WOULD EASE F.C.C. RESTRICTION ON MEDIA OWNERS: The head of the Federal Communications Commission has circulated an ambitious plan to relax the decades-old media ownership rules, including repealing a rule that forbids a company to own both a newspaper and a television or radio station in the same city. Kevin J. Martin, chairman of the commission, wants to repeal the rule in the next two months — a plan that, if successful, would be a big victory for some executives of media conglomerates. Among them are Samuel Zell, the Chicago investor who is seeking to complete a buyout of the Tribune Company, and Rupert Murdoch, who has lobbied against the rule for years so that he can continue controlling both The New York Post and a Fox television station in New York. The proposal appears to have the support of a majority of the five commission members, agency officials said, although it is not clear that Mr. Martin would proceed with a sweeping deregulatory approach on a vote of 3 to 2 — something his predecessor tried without success. In interviews on Wednesday, the agency’s two Democratic members raised questions about Mr. Martin’s approach. Mr. Martin said he was striving to reach a consensus with his fellow commissioners, both on the schedule and on the underlying rule changes, although he would not say whether he would move the measures forward if he were able to muster only three votes. In recent months, industry executives had all but abandoned the hope that regulators would try to modify the ownership rules in the waning days of the Bush administration.

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MORE PROOF: BORDERS OUT OF CONTROL: A Mexican national infected with a highly contagious form of tuberculosis crossed the U.S. border 76 times and took multiple domestic flights in the last year, according to Customs and Border Protection interviews and documents obtained by The Washington Times. The Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency was warned by health officials on April 16 that the frequent traveler was infected, but it took the Homeland Security officials more than six weeks to issue a May 31 alert to warn its own border inspectors, according to Homeland Security sources who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of retribution. Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR) is a highly contagious illness and also resistant to the two most commonly used drugs to treat TB. It is the same dangerous strain of tuberculosis that concerned health officials when Andrew Speaker, a 31-year-old Atlanta lawyer, slipped into the U.S. from Europe via a flight to Canada.

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WEDNESDAY • OCTOBER 17, 2007

BUSH WARNS OF WORLD WAR III IF IRAN GOES NUCLEAR: US President George W. Bush said Wednesday that he had warned world leaders they must prevent Iran from getting nuclear weapons “if you’re interested in avoiding World War III.” “We’ve got a leader in Iran who has announced that he wants to destroy Israel,” Bush said at a White House press conference after Russia cautioned against military action against Tehran’s suspect atomic program. “So I’ve told people that, if you’re interested in avoiding World War III, it seems like you ought to be interested in preventing them from having the knowledge necessary to make a nuclear weapon,” said Bush.

WIRETAP BATTLE: The White House yesterday threatened to veto a new federal wiretapping law poised for a approval by House Democrats today because it “falls far short” of giving the intelligence community the tools it needs to fight the war on terror.

RUDY’S PL-NO BOAST; SAYS ‘95 ARAFAT TOSS PROVES ‘I’M LEADER’: Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani said yesterday that his controversial decision to boot Yasser Arafat out of Lincoln Center shows he’s a more decisive leader than his chief rivals in either party. Giuliani swiped at Hillary Rodham Clinton, Barack Obama and Mitt Romney as he gleefully recounted the 1995 Arafat incident - which sparked headlines around the world - to members of the Republican Jewish Coalition in Washington, D.C.

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MUSHARRAF RIVAL PREPARES FOR RETURN: The Pakistani opposition leader and former prime minister Benazir Bhutto confirmed today her determination to return to her home city of Karachi on Thursday after an eight-year absence, despite threats from militants and pressure from the government to delay her return.

BUSH PRODS CONGRESS ON SPENDING BILLS: President Bush has accused Congress of dragging its feet on key pieces of legislation and urged quick action on budget and children’s health measures. Bush also said the U.S. is making clear to Turkey that it should not send large numbers of troops into Iraq. It is Bush’s first White House news conference since Sept. 20 and it comes just a day before the Democratic-controlled House will try to override his veto of a popular children’s health program. That vote is not expected to succeed.

SOAP KOS VIRUSES: Hand washing with just soap and water is a simple and effective way to stunt the spread of respiratory viruses, researchers said. Tom Jefferson and colleagues at the Cochrane Collaboration analyzed 51 clinical studies. The findings underscore recommendations from the World Health Organization about the benefits of hand washing to limit transmission of viruses.

ARRGH, PIRATE ATTACKS UP: Maritime pirate attacks worldwide shot up 14 percent in the first nine months of 2007 from a year earlier, with Somalia and Nigeria showing the biggest increases, an international watchdog said.

LBN-BOOK NEWS: ***Sidney Poitier’s LIFE BEYOND MEASURE: Letters to My Great-Granddaughter, heartwarming stories and life lessons in the form of letters to his granddaughter, sold to Jane Friedman for Harper One, for publication in Mary 2008, by Mort Janklow at Janklow & Nesbit (world). ***LA Magazine editor RJ Smith’s THE ONE - THE LIFE OF JAMES BROWN, a comprehensive biography, not only presenting a complete portrait of his personal life, but also placing Brown in his proper place in the pantheon of popular culture icons, sold to Bill Shinker and Brett Valley at Gotham, in a pre-empt, by Paul Bresnick at Paul Bresnick Agency (NA). ***Journalist William Lobdell’s LOSING MY RELIGION: How Covering Faith in America Shattered a Journalist’s Beliefs, written after spending 8 years covering religion for the Los Angeles Times, sold to Steve Ross at Collins, by Tricia Davey at Sanford J. Greenburger Associates (world English). ***Actor, comedian, and Howard Stern radio personality Artie Lange’s TOO FAT TO FISH, written with Anthony Bozza, a memoir told in a series of stories drawn from his life, sold to Julie Grau, for Flying Dolphin, for publication in early 2009, by Richard Abate at Endeavor (NA). ***Psychologist, professor, dean and expert on the phenomenon of lying, Robert Feldman’s lively analysis of the underlying causes, functions and implications of deception in contemporary society, including the discovery that in a ten-minute conversation, the average person lies two to three times, sold to Jonathan Karp at Twelve, at auction, by Gillian MacKenzie at the Gillian MacKenzie Agency (NA). ***Bill Clinton is falling off the best-seller lists. Sales for the former president’s “Giving,” a handbook for civic activism published by Alfred A. Knopf with an announced first printing of 750,000, have dropped far since its release in early September, when Clinton made numerous media appearances, including interviews with Oprah Winfrey, etc. ***Disney Publishing Worldwide is moving its headquarters from 114 Fifth Ave. in New York City 25 miles north to new offices in White Plains, N.Y. The company is moving approximately 175 employees in several stages and expects to have most of the book group in the new location by the end of the month.

LBN-COMMENTARY BY MAUREEN DOWD: Now comes “Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week.” David Horowitz’s conservative Freedom Center has designated next week the time to “break through the barrier of politically correct doublespeak that prevails on American campuses, if you want to help our brave troops, who are fighting the Islamo-Fascists abroad.” The Freedom Center’s terrorism awareness program is urging college students to stage sit-ins outside the offices of women’s studies departments to protest “the silence of feminists over the oppression of women in Islam” and to distribute pamphlets on Islamo-Fascism. Their titles include “The Islamic Mein Kampf,” “Why Israel is the Victim” and “Jimmy Carter’s War Against the Jews.” Even before Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week, the Republican presidential candidates were pitching in yesterday at the Republican Jewish Coalition Victory 2008 Forum here.

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COOL ON GORE: Al Gore’s Nobel Peace Prize hasn’t translated into a significant increase in support for a presidential bid, notes media expert and author Michael Levine. Asked if they would like to see the former vice president run in 2008, people said no by a 13 percent margin, about the same as last March, when people opposed a run by 19 percent according to a Gallup Poll.

LBN-MEDIA INSIDER: ***Former gossip columnist Mitchell Fink is producing and hosting “Heads-Up Handicapping,” a new weekly horse-racing show for the NYC Off-Track Betting channel debuting Saturday.

SEX, NAZI, BURRITO AND VIAGRA: WHO GOOGLES WHAT?: Internet users in Egypt, India and Turkey are the world’s most frequent searchers for Web sites using the keyword “sex” on Google search engines, according to statistics provided by Google Inc. Germany, Mexico and Austria were world’s top three searchers of the word “Hitler” while “Nazi” scored the most hits in Chile, Australia and the United Kingdom, data from 2004 to the present retrievable on the “Google Trends” Web site showed. Chile also came in first place searching for the word “gay,” followed by Mexico and Colombia.

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LBN-COMMENTARY BY PAUL SIMON: I am asking those of you who supported the veto to reexamine your conscience, to find compassion in your heart for our most vulnerable and sweetest citizens. I am asking you to change your vote.

SWEARING AT WORK BOOSTS TEAM SPIRT, MORALE: RESEARCH: Regular swearing at work can help boost team spirit among staff, allowing them to express better their feelings as well as develop social relationships, according to a study by researchers. Yehuda Baruch, a professor of management at the University of East Anglia, and graduate Stuart Jenkins studied the use of profanity in the workplace and assessed its implications for managers.

LBN-BUSINESS INSIDER: ***Apple plans to lower the price of music sold without copyright protection to 99 cents a song from $1.29, undercutting rivals less than five months after adding these tracks to its iTunes store. ***CBS Corp said it has signed a new employment contract with CEO Leslie Moonves that extends his term to 2011. Moonves will now earn $3.5 million per year, compared with his previous salary of $5.9 million, which included $2.9 million in deferred compensation. He will also be eligible for a performance-based bonus and receive “significant” equity-based compensation tied to the company’s stock performance, a plan which he had resisted in the past. ***NCR Corp., the world’s largest manufacturer of automated teller machines, will lease an entire floor of 7 World Trade Center, the first of the buildings destroyed in the Sept. 11 attacks to be rebuilt.

LBN-COMMENTARY BY MAYOR RUDY GIULIANI: Honestly, in most respects, I don’t know Hillary’s experience. She’s never run a city, she’s never run a state. She’s never run a business. She has never met a payroll. She has never been responsible for the safety and security of millions of people, much less even hundreds of people. So I’m trying to figure out where the experience is here. It would seem to me that in a time of difficult problems and war we don’t want on the job training for an executive. The reality is that these areas in which - maybe there are some areas in which she has experience but the areas of having the responsibility of the safety and security of millions of people on your shoulders is not something Hillary has ever had any experience with.

DRUG-RESISTANT STAPH GERM’S TOLL IS HIGHER THAN THOUGHT: A dangerous germ that has been spreading around the country causes more life-threatening infections than public health authorities had thought and is killing more people in the United States each year than the AIDS virus, federal health officials reported yesterday. The microbe, a strain of a once innocuous staph bacterium that has become invulnerable to first-line antibiotics, is responsible for more than 94,000 serious infections and nearly 19,000 deaths each year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention calculated.

LBN-HOLLYWOOD INSIDER: ***Extending an olive branch to television and film writers, the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers is withdrawing an unpopular proposal on residual payments that had threatened to derail contract talks. The current contract is still set to expire Oct. 31.

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BIKE SPILLS COST $200M: More than 10,000 children and teens go to the hospital every year in the United States after falling off or crashing their bicycles, racking up $200 million in hospital fees, Ohio State University researchers reported yesterday. They estimated that 10,700 children are hospitalized annually for bicycle-related injuries, with an average stay of three days. And too few appear to have been wearing helmets.

LBN-NOTICED: ***The power lunch crowd at Michael’s in NYC yesterday was at maximum potency. Henry Kissinger, who once observed that “power is the ultimate aphrodisiac,” was there with Faye Wattleton, of Planned Parenthood fame. Also spotted: Barry Diller, Michael Eisner, Charlie Koppelman with Ken Starr, Allen Grubman with Clive Davis, Julio Santo Domingo. Andrew Stein with his two strapping sons, and “Today” boss Jim Bell with Sony Music boss Andrew Lack. ***Martha Coolidge at the O-Bar on Santa Monica Blvd in L.A. ***It’s official - Jon Tisch is a married man. One of New York’s most beloved philanthropists quietly wed Lizzie Rudnick on Oct. 2 at the Four Seasons restaurant in NYC in front of family members. ***Harold Ford Jr. - the possible next Tennessee governor - celebrating his engagement to Emily Threlkeld with seven of their nearest and dearest at ‘21′ in NYC. ***”Survivor” host Jeff Probst in the same workout class as Kelly Ripa at Physique 57 in NYC.

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LBN-SPORTS INSIDER: ***Tiger Woods will have his own brand of sports drink next year, under an endorsement deal announced yesterday with Gatorade that marks a couple of firsts for the world’s No. 1 golfer - his first U.S. deal with a beverage company and his first licensing agreement.

LBN-COMMENTARY BY THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN: Van Jones is a rare bird. He’s a black social activist in Oakland, Calif., and as green an environmentalist as they come. He really gets passionate, and funny, when he talks about what it’s like to be black and green: “Try this experiment. Go knock on someone’s door in West Oakland, Watts or Newark and say: ‘We gotta really big problem!’ They say: ‘We do? We do?’ ‘Yeah, we gotta really big problem!’ ‘We do? We do?’ ‘Yeah, we gotta save the polar bears! You may not make it out of this neighborhood alive, but we gotta save the polar bears!’ “Mr. Jones then just shakes his head. You try that approach on people without jobs who live in neighborhoods where they’ve got a lot better chance of getting killed by a passing shooter than a melting glacier, you’re going to get nowhere — and without bringing America’s underclass into the green movement, it’s going to get nowhere, too.

LBN-COMMENTARY BY DEEPAK CHOPRA: The purpose of art is to make us yearn for transcendence and to spur us on to find it in the real world. For me, Elizabeth did just that.

LBN-VIDEO LINK: Ellen Sobs For The Return Of Confiscated Dog…

USING THE FORCE: George Lucas tells the Los Angeles Times that he has “just begun work” on a live-action TV series based on the Stars Wars franchise, though familiar faces such as Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader won’t be making an appearance. “It has nothing to do with Luke Skywalker or Darth Vader or any of those people. It’s completely different.”

CURTAIN CALL: Clay Aiken is joining the cast of Broadway’s Spamalot on Jan. 18, playing one of the leads, Sir Robin. The American Idol alum will stay with the Tony-winning musical through May 4.

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LBN-OVERHEARD: ***Elayne Boosler is bristling at Caroline’s Comedy Club owner Caroline Hirsch. As we reported, Hirsch rips the comic in an upcoming book, “Comedy at the Edge,” claiming she’s hard to work with and blew off a gig because she didn’t like the opening act, Emo Phillips. But Boosler says: “Emo Phillips is my best friend. I gave him away at his wedding. I did seven out of eight shows for Caroline and didn’t do the last because she wouldn’t let the head of the ad agency that did my ‘Dry Idea’ ad for Gillette in to see the show. She still owes me $3,000. She goes out of her way to trash me. It’s probably the size of her ego that she’s still carrying on like this.” ***Remember the name Tif McMillin. The doe-eyed blonde from Utah - after steady gigs in L.A. at the Spider Club, Viper Room and the Derby - makes her New York debut tonight at the CMJ (College Music Junket) concert at Avalon, where up-and-coming acts showcase for campus bookers. The Sheryl Crow sound-alike will be back in L.A. on Halloween for the opening of 86, the Steve Adelman club in a Hollywood basement that was once a speakeasy owned by Rudolph Valentino. ***President Shimon Peres, who is a personal friend and great fan of celebrated singer Barbra Streisand, hopes to persuade her to come to Israel for the country’s 60th anniversary celebrations in May 2008.

LBN-CURRENTLY READING: Jim Keppler, of Keppler Speakers, is reading Disney War by James B. Stewart.

DID YOU KNOW? ***According to research, the most productive work day is Tuesday and the least productive work day is Friday? ***About 70% of Americans who go to college admit to doing it just to make more money? ***A Hungarian named Ladislo Biro invented the first ballpoint pen in 1938? ***A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette in South Bend, Indiana? ***27% of female lottery winners hid their winning ticket in their bra?

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TUESDAY • OCTOBER 16, 2007

OPEC CONCERNED ABOUT OIL PRICES, BUT WON’T UP OUTPUT-SECRETARY GENERAL: The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries believes current record oil prices are too high, but has no plans to boost oil production beyond what it has already agreed to increase starting in November, OPEC Secretary General Abdalla Salem el-Badri said Tuesday. El-Bari, who took over earlier this year in his post, said crude prices - which touched a nominal record of $87.97 a barrel hit earlier Tuesday - were being driven by market speculators and didn’t reflect supply and demand fundamentals.

IN IRAN, PUTIN WARNS AGAINST MILITARY ACTION: President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia told a summit of five Caspian Sea nations in Iran today that any use of military force in the Caspian region was unacceptable and in a declaration the countries agreed that none of them would allow their territories to be used as a base for launching military strikes against any of the others.”We should not even think of making use of force in this region,” Mr. Putin said.

CREATION OF PALESTINIAN STATE A PRIORITY: RICE: It’s time for a Palestinian state to be created, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice declared yesterday as she prodded Israeli and Palestinian officials toward a breakthrough at next month’s Middle East peace conference.

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LAURA MIDEAST TRIP: First Lady Laura Bush will travel to the Middle East next week to promote one of her signature issues, awareness and treatment of breast cancer, as Washington tries to improve its image in the Arab world. The White House said yesterday she would visit Jordan, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates Oct. 20-26.

IMUS BACK IN SADDLE:; GETS A.M. GIG 6 MONTHS AFTER ‘HO’ FIASCO: Don Imus is coming back to radio. The nation’s No. 1 talk station, WABC Radio, will begin airing Imus starting the first week in December, sources close to the deal confirmed yesterday.

DROUGHT-STRICKEN SOUTH FACING TOUGH CHOICES: For the first time in more than 100 years, much of the Southeast has reached the most severe category of drought, climatologists said Monday, creating an emergency so serious that some cities are just months away from running out of water. In North Carolina, Gov. Michael F. Easley asked residents Monday to stop using water for any purpose “not essential to public health and safety.” He warned that he would soon have to declare a state of emergency if voluntary efforts fell short.

CHINA WARNS U.S. ON DALAI LAMA TRIP: Chinese officials warned the United States not to honor the Dalai Lama, saying a planned award ceremony for the Tibetan spiritual leader would have “an extremely serious impact” on relations between the countries. Speaking at a Foreign Ministry briefing and on the sidelines of the Communist Party’s ongoing 17th National Congress, the officials condemned the Dalai Lama as a resolute separatist and said foreign leaders must stop encouraging his “splittist” mission.

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2ND COHORT TO FLIP ON O.J.: A second co-defendant in the O.J. Simpson armed-robbery case said yesterday that he will plead guilty to a reduced charge and testify against Simpson and four others in the alleged hotel-room theft of sports collectibles from two memorabilia dealers. Walter Alexander, 46, of Mesa, Ariz., told a judge he will plead guilty to conspiracy to commit robbery, a felony. He could face between one and six years in prison.

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LBN-BUSINESS INSIDER: ***AOL said in an internal memo that it planned to lay off 2,000 employees, or about 20 percent of its work force, beginning today. ***Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said the housing slump will be a “significant drag” on U.S. growth into next year, though evidence of a broader impact on spending is limited. Credit markets have improved, he told the Economic Club of New York, while a full recovery will take time “and we may well see some setbacks.” ***Mattel reported third-quarter profit and sales that missed analysts’ estimates after the recall of 21 million Chinese- made products in the past two months. Net income declined 0.9 percent to $236.8 million, or 61 cents a share, from $239 million, or 62 cents, a year earlier. ***Wall Street extended its retreat Tuesday after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said the night before that the slumping housing market remains a ‘’significant drag'’ on the economy.

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LBN-MEDIA INSIDER: ***Randi Rhodes was mugged on Sunday night on 39th Street and Park Ave, nearby her Manhattan apartment, while she was walking her dog Simon. According to Air America Radio late night host Jon Elliott, Rhodes was beaten up pretty badly, losing several teeth and will probably be off the air for at least the rest of the week. At of late Monday night we have not able to locate any press accounts of the attack and nothing has been posted on the AAR website. ***Disney spent $2.14 million in the first half of 2007 to lobby the federal government, according to a disclosure form. The company lobbied on issues including digital television, patent reform, copyright protection, online child safety, and government spending on homeland security. ***Initial reactions were lukewarm to the debut of Rupert Murdoch’s Fox Business Network on Monday. “They appear to have a rooting interest in prices going up,” observes news analyst Andrew Tyndall. “It’s normally not a good sign of journalism when you’re rooting for an outcome.” ***Nearly 16% of American households who use the Internet watch television broadcasts online, according to a report by The Conference Board and TNS. The top reasons: personal convenience, portability, a preference for computer viewing, and to avoid watching commercials. ***Total advertising pages for U.S. consumer magazines dipped 1% for the first nine months of 2007 when compared to the same period last year, according to the Magazine Publishers of America. The newly redesigned BusinessWeek and Newsweek dropped 16.4% and 8.5%, respectively.

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GOSSIP IS STRONGER THAN TRUTH: Gossip is more powerful than facts, a study showed yesterday, suggesting people believe what they hear through the grapevine even if they have evidence to the contrary. In the study, researchers gave students playing a computer game money they could give to others in a series of rounds. The students, meanwhile, also wrote notes about how others played the game that everyone could review. Students tended to give less money to people described as “nasty misers” or “scrooges” and more to those depicted as “generous players” or “social players,” says the research in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The researchers then took the game a step further and showed the students the actual decisions made by fellow players. But they also supplied false gossip that contradicted that evidence. In these cases, the students based their decisions to award money on the gossip, rather than the hard evidence, showing such information is a powerful tool, said Ralf Sommerfeld, an evolutionary biologist at the Max Planck Institute in Germany, who led the study. “Rationally if you know what the people did, you should care, but they still listened to what others said,” Sommerfeld said.

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LBN-HOLLYWOOD INSIDER: ***Media expert and author Michael Levine hosts a 35th Anniversary screening of the classic films “Godfather” and “Godfather Part 2″ this Sunday and next Sunday at 3pm at the posh Wilshire Screening Room in Beverly Hills for media, celebrities and friends. ***Hilary Swank has signed on to star in another Oscar vehicle: a biopic about Amelia Earhart. The star was at a party in her honor for her Guerlain fragrance, My Insolence, at the Bel Air Hotel.

LBN-BOOK NEWS: ***Michael’s, the New York eatery for the media elite, is celebrating the publication of “Welcome to Michael’s” (Little, Brown) with a reception Tuesday night. The new cookbook includes “the voices of media luminaries who share their own opinions about the Michael’s experience.”

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FAMILY FIRST: Gloria Estefan has been forced to cancel her performance on Dancing with the Stars this week because her mother is very ill, her publicist tells E! News. The singer rushed home to Miami Monday morning to be by her mother’s side. No word on whether ABC has a replacement in mind.

PAY UP: Michael Jackson was ordered Monday to pay $175,000 in overdue attorneys’ fees to a Torrance law firm that did some work for him during his child molestation trial. Ayscough & Marar sued the entertainer in February 2006 and was awarded $256,000 in July. Monday’s award compensates the firm for having to hire an attorney to sue Jackson.

LBN-OVERHEARD: ***At last, some good news for imprisoned “Girls Gone Wild” czar Joe Francis. Two Florida women who stripped down for one of his videos, then sued claiming they were taped without permission, have recanted and issued an apology. ” ‘Girls Gone Wild’ and Joe Francis have suffered as a result of this lawsuit and our actions,” Brooke Patsolic and Christina Brose said in a statement. Francis will be interviewed tomorrow, for the first time in six months, for “On the Record w/Greta Van Susteren.” ***Joel Siegel was fondly remembered at a memorial service yesterday by friends and colleagues who recalled the movie critic’s wisecracking ways. ABC anchor Charlie Gibson joked that Siegel “sent the best Christmascards, and for a Jew that’s not bad. One of the best was a picture of him with Ray Charles which read, ‘Gene Shalit and I want to wish you a Merry Christmas, Ray Charles.’ ” Diane Sawyer read an e-mail from Siegel in which he told her he scheduled a cancer screening on the day he was to review “Deuce Bigelow.” ***Guns N’ Roses star Slash says life on the road in the ’80s was more than just playing shows, it was trying to dodge sexual diseases. In his memoir, “Slash,” the guitar-crunching rocker writes: “I remember spending most of my days off in and out of a variety of VD clinics . . . I was dating a porno chick as well as this sweet little junkie jailbait girlfriend I had.”

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LBN-CURRENTLY READING: Filmmaker John Waters (’This Filthy World’) is reading Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice by Janet Malcolm.

LBN-QUOTE: “If you are going through hell, keep going!”—–Winston Churchill.

LBN-HISTORY: On October 16, 1793, Marie Antoinette was beheaded during the French Revolution.

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MONDAY • OCTOBER 15, 2007

OIL FUTURES HIT NEW RECORD ABOVE $86: Oil prices surged as high as $86 a barrel Monday for the first time after OPEC said crude production by non-member countries likely falling even as global demand for oil is rising. Prices were also supported by concerns that Turkish forces will pursue Kurdish rebels into Iraq, disrupting oil supplies, and by technical buying by investment funds.

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MONDAY • OCTOBER 15, 2007

RUSSIANS FEAR BID TO KILL PUTIN: President Vladimir Putin has been warned by his security services of a possible plot to assassinate him during a visit to Iran this week, the Kremlin said yesterday. The Russian Interfax news agency reported yesterday that suicide bombers were preparing to attack Putin.

GEN. PEEVES MCCAIN: Sen. John McCain yesterday slammed retired Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, the former top commander in Iraq, who late last week said a failure of leadership had led to a “nightmare.” “I had meetings that Gen. Sanchez was present where he advocated the strategy that he now is so critical of,” said McCain (R-Ariz.) on ABC’s “This Week.” “I wish that he had given us the benefit of that knowledge at the time,” added the presidential hopeful.

CHINA’S LEADER CLOSES DOOR TO REFORM AT MEETING: Chinese President Hu Jintao promised to address social fissures, a degraded environment and rampant corruption during his second term as China’s top leader, but he all but ruled out more than cosmetic political reform in his opening address today at the ruling Communist Party’s 17th National Congress. Mr. Hu spoke extensively about his “scientific view of development,” a set of lofty, vague principles supporting harmonious economic, social and political development.

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WILD-TURKEY ALERT: Turkey’s military chief said yesterday that if Congress approves a resolution branding the 1915 killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks as genocide, ties between the NATO allies would never be the same again. Ankara is a critical ally for Washington, because of its border with Iraq. Some analysts believe the vote could weaken Washington’s influence over Turkey and result in a Turkish incursion into northern Iraq to crush Kurdish rebels using the territory as a base.

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CRAIG’S NEW ‘SEX’ APPEAL: Sen. Larry Craig says he will file an appeal today over a judge’s refusal to allow him to withdraw his guilty plea stemming from his arrest in an airport bathroom sex sting. In an interview yesterday with KTVB-TV, Craig repeated he will not resign his post in the Senate and said he will continue to work his legal options.

AOL TO CUT GLOBAL WORK FORCE BY 20 PERCENT: AOL is cutting its global work force by an additional 2,000 jobs as it continues a transition from Internet access provider to online advertising company. The elimination of 20 percent of its work force comes on top of 5,000 positions cut last fall, after AOL said it would try to boost traffic to its ad-supported Web sites by giving away AOL.com e-mail accounts, software and other features once reserved for paying subscribers. “This realignment will allow us to increase investment in high-growth areas of the company, while scaling back in areas with less growth potential or those that aren’t core to our business,” AOL Chief Executive Randy Falco told employees Monday.

105-FOOT DINOSAUR UNEARTHED IN PATAGONIA: The skeleton of what is believed to be a new dinosaur species — a 105-foot plant-eater that is among the largest dinosaurs ever found — has been uncovered in Argentina, scientists said Monday. Scientists from Argentina and Brazil said the Patagonian dinosaur appears to represent a previously unknown species of Titanosaur because of the unique structure of its neck. They named it Futalognkosaurus dukei after the Mapuche Indian words for “giant” and “chief,” and for Duke Energy Argentina, which helped fund the skeleton’s excavation.

AUSSIE PM CALLS ELECTIONS: Prime Minister John Howard yesterday called general elections in Australia for Nov. 24, cautioning voters about his opponent’s plans for a withdrawal from Iraq and reminding them that his own administration has overseen the country’s long economic boom. Howard, one of Washington’s staunchest allies in Iraq, is seeking a fifth term.

LBN-SPORTS INSIDER: ***The brooms will be at the ready and the champagne on ice tonight in Denver, where the Rockies can nail down their first World Series berth by completing a four-game sweep of Arizona. The Diamondbacks face a challenge only one major league team has been able to overcome. The Boston Red Sox came back from a 3-0 deficit to defeat the New York Yankees in the 2004 ALCS. Colorado’s Franklin Morales will face Micah Owings in a matchup of rookies who have never faced each other’s teams.

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RAPPER TO APPEAR MONDAY ON WEAPONS CHARGES: T.I. was to make his initial court appearance Monday following his weekend arrest on weapons charges. The 27-year-old rapper, whose real name is Clifford Harris, faces allegations from federal officials that he planned to pick up machine guns and silencers he had his bodyguard buy for him.

LBN-BUSINESS INSIDER: ***Applebee’s International Inc. has agreed to settle a class-action law suit challenging the pro posed $1.9 billion sale of the restaurant operator to IHOP Corp. ***Builders broke ground in September on the fewest houses in 12 years, government reports this week are expected to show. Economists predict housing starts fell 3.6 percent to an annual rate of 1.285 million, said a survey ahead of a report Wednesday by the Commerce Department. ***Call it a sequel, but cinema advertising is having another blockbuster year. Revenue from in-theater advertising topped $456 million last year, up more than 15 percent from $395 million the year before, according to a new report from the Cinema Advertising Council.

3 AMERICANS TO SHARE NOBEL PRIZE IN ECONOMICS: The Nobel Prize in economics was awarded today to three Americans for their work in mechanism design theory, a branch of economics that looks at the design of institutions in situations where markets do not work properly.

ALZHEIMER’S TEST: Researchers have developed a blood test that may be able to predict whether mild memory lapses are early signs of Alzheimer’s. In a study published in the journal Nature Medicine, an international team described 18 cell-signaling blood proteins that predicted the disease’s onset with 90 percent accuracy. The researchers said a prediction could come two to six years before onset, which could prove useful in the search for treatments.

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LE SEPARATION: C’est la vie. French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his stunning, jet-setting wife, Cecilia, are expected to announce as early as today they are separating after nearly 11 years of marriage, according to The Observer in London. The couple had briefly separated in 2005, after she allegedly had an affair.

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CAN FOX WIN ITS FRONTAL ASSAULT AGAINST CNBC?: The team leading the Fox Business Network into battle with CNBC, the entrenched leader in cable business news, has made no secret that it intends to do in the realm of business news exactly what the Fox News Channel did in general news. As in: conquer. And even before today’s premiere, there are already indications of just how fiercely the battle will be waged. In a pep talk to his troops Friday afternoon, Roger Ailes, the chairman of both networks, said, “I’m not interested in anything short of a revolution.”

U.S. CANCER DEATH RATES ARE FOUND TO BE FALLING: Death rates from cancer have been dropping by an average of 2.1 percent a year recently in the United States, a near doubling of decreases that began in 1993, researchers are reporting. “Every 1 percent is 5,000 people who aren’t dying,” said Dr. Richard L. Schilsky, a professor of medicine at the University of Chicago and president-elect of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. “That’s a huge sense of progress at this point.”

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LBN-HOLLYWOOD INSIDER: ***Tyler Perry’s Why Did I Get Married?” took the No. 1 spot at the box office over the weekend, according to studio estimates released yesterday. The debuting “dramedy” about marital trials and tribulations scored $21.5 million, and gave Tyler Perry his third No. 1 hit as a director in four tries, said Jeff Bock, an analyst with box-office tracker Exhibitor Relations.

LBN-HEALTH WATCH: ***The maker of an implanted heart defibrillator said today it suspended sales of a wire lead that could cause the device to stop working or give an unnecessary shock. The equipment may have contributed to five deaths, Medtronic Inc. said.

LBN-MEDIA INSIDER: ***All media, including print and television, will be digital within 10 years, says Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, in his opening keynote at the Association of National Advertisers’ conference. “Everything will be delivered digitally. All media and all advertising will have to take that into account.” ***NBC is preparing for Jay Leno’s exit from “The Tonight Show” in 2009. But as the date draws closer, Leno is becoming reluc