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SUNDAY • OCTOBER 5, 2008

CITI: WELLS FARGO BLOCKED FROM BUYING WACHOVIA: The fight over control of Wachovia intensified Saturday, as a judge temporarily agreed to block the sale of the bank by Wells Fargo, Citigroup announced in a news release. State Supreme Court Justice Charles Ramos issued the order blocking the sale of Wachovia Corp., which Wells Fargo & Co. had agreed to purchase in a $14.8 billion deal.

PALIN SAYS OBAMA ‘PALLING AROUND’ WITH TERRORISTS: Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin on Saturday accused Democrat Barack Obama of “palling around with terrorists” because of his association with a former 1960s radical, stepping up the campaign’s effort to portray Obama as unacceptable to American voters. Palin’s reference was to Bill Ayers, one of the founders of the group the Weather Underground. Its members took credit for bombings, including nonfatal explosions at the Pentagon and U.S. Capitol, during the tumultuous Vietnam War era four decades ago. Obama, who was a child when the group was active, served on a charity board with Ayers several years ago and has denounced his radical views and activities. ***LBN-VIDEO LINK: Video…

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AL-QAIDA: US ECONOMIC CRISIS EQUALS MUSLIM VICTORY : An American member of al-Qaida pointed to economic troubles in the United States as proof that “the enemies of Islam” face defeat, in an English-language video released Saturday. In a half hour video message, California-native Adam Gadahn urged Pakistanis to unite against their government and U.S. forces, and taunted Americans over their economic crisis, relating it to their military interventions. “The enemies of Islam are facing a crushing defeat, which is beginning to manifest itself in the expanding crisis their economy is experiencing,” said Gadahn, in a clip of the message distributed by the SITE Intelligence Group, a Washington-based monitor of militant Web sites.

CHANGING MAP: Barack Obamas ambitious strategy to make incursions into Republican territory is gaining new force, while John McCain is scaling back his efforts to capture Democratic states.

POPE DECRIES GODLESS NATURE OF MODERN SOCIETIES : Pope Benedict XVI warned Sunday that modern culture is pushing God out of people’s lives, causing nations once rich in religious faith to lose their identities. Benedict celebrated a Mass in the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls to open a worldwide meeting of bishops on the relevance of the Bible for contemporary Catholics.

FRENCH FM WARNS OF ISRAELI STRIKE ON IRAN NUCLEAR SITES: French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner warned in comments published on Sunday that Israel would strike archfoe Iran before it succeeding in developing nuclear weapons. “I honestly don’t believe (a nuclear weapon) will give any immunity to Iran,” Kouchner said in an interview conducted in English with Israel’s Haaretz newspaper during a two-day visit to the region. “First, because you will eat them before. And this is the danger. Israel has always said it will not wait for the bomb to be ready. I think that (the Iranians) know. Everyone knows.”

LBN-COMMENTARY By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN: I was talking to friend in New York City the other day about the current financial crisis, and she told me about a scene she had just witnessed in the lobby of the Warwick Hotel. Four Swedish tourists, who clearly had been on a shopping spree in Manhattan, fueled by the still cheap dollar, were trying to cram all their purchases into four suitcases. They had bought a hand-held scale one of those you just grip onto the suitcase and lift to make sure all their American goodies were not overweight for the flight home. Another friend of mine in the ship-supply business in Baltimore, Alan Kotz, told me about a German customer who recently put in double his normal order. When Alan asked him if he was aware of how much he had ordered, the German brushed his question away and laughed: Alan, never mind, everything for us is half price. And a good thing it is. Even though the dollar has strengthened a bit lately, we are going to need foreigners and sovereign wealth funds from China, Asia, Europe and the Middle East more than ever to survive this crisis and they are going to need us to be healthy as well. In the process, we are going to become even more intertwined and dependent on the rest of the world. Sarah Palin wont have to worry that she doesnt know what the Bush doctrine is. No one really knew what it meant. But it had something to do with the unilateral exercise of American power, and the next presidents ability to act unilaterally on anything other than vital national security issues is going to be reduced. As the old saying goes: He who has the gold makes the rules. Well, we no longer have as much gold, and until we get some, we will have to pay more heed to the rules of those who lend us theirs.

LBN-MEDIAN INSIDER: ***Long-time radio talk show host Michael Jackson’s somewhat ballyhooed return to the L.A. radio waves ended when KGIL (AM 1260 and 540) dropped him. The station went to a syndicated package of mostly conservative shouters, including Laura Ingraham, Michael Savage, Glenn Beck and Lou Dobbs and Dr. Drew Pinsky.

LBN-NOTICED: ***Mel Gibson, in Massachusetts shooting his newest movie, “Edge of Darkness,” eating with his bodyguard in a private room at Judie’s restaurant in Amherst ***Timbaland meeting Randy Jackson and Ryan Seacrest at Philippe Miami. ***Rapper Jim Jones and Damon Dash hitting on the ladies at Cipriani Downtown in NYC. ***Parkey Posey taking a Physique 57 class in SoHo in NYC. ***Hillary Duff, in skinny jeans, sneakers, T-shirt, hat and sunglasses, squealing with delight at a pair of 5-inch Missoni platform shoes at Chuckies New York on Third Avenue in NYC. ***Approximately 100 power players from Hollywood celebrating the marriage of Variety editor Peter Bart and his wife Phyllis last night at the Melrose Grille in West Hollywood.

LBN-POLITICAL BRIEFING By PEGGY NOONAN: Joe Biden seems to have walked in thinking that she was an idiot and that he only had to patiently wait for this fact to reveal itself. This was a miscalculation. He showed great forbearance. Too much forbearance. She said of his intentions on Iraq, “Your plan is a white flag of surrender.” This deserved an indignant response, or at least a small bop on the head, from Mr. Biden, who has been for five years righter on Iraq than the Republican administration. He was instead mild. The heart of her message was a complete populist pitch. “Joe Six-Pack” and “soccer moms” should unite to fight the tormentors who forced mortgages on us. She spoke of “Main Streeters like me.” A question is at what point shiny, happy populism becomes cheerful manipulation.

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LBN-COMMENTARY By ARIANNA HUFFINGTON: When it comes to leadership, this week proved we are living in a moment of mediocrities — a long moment. Sarah Palin, wearing her ignorance like a beauty pageant tiara, was “annoyed” that she was asked actual questions by Katie Couric. George Bush looked the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression square in the eye…and threw up his hands. Congress stepped into the leadership void and promptly created another one. And the less said about Alberto Gonzales’ week, the better. Desperate times cry out for exceptional leaders. It’s not a matter of stratospheric SAT scores or Mensa-level IQs. What we need is the one thing in short supply: wisdom. It’s in our DNA to fear the evil genius. But we still have to be trained to recognize the dangers of the clueless mediocrity.

LBN-COMMENTARY By BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN: I’ve spent 35 years writing about America, its people, and the meaning of the American Promise. I want that dream back, I want my America back, I want my country back. Now is the time to stand with Barack Obama.

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LBN-SPORTS INSIDER: ***After two decades of searching, the Dodgers found their way back to the National League Championship Series. The Cubs fell apart in October to make it 100 years since they last won the World Series.

LBN-COMMENTARY By MAUREEN DOWD: I had hoped I was finally done with acting as an interpreter for politicians whose relationship with the English language was tumultuous. Theres W.s gummy grammar, of course, like the classic, Is our children learning? And covering the first Bush White House required doing simultaneous translation for a president who never met a personal pronoun he liked or a wacky non sequitur he could resist. Poppy Bush drew comparisons to Warren G. Harding, whose prose reminded H. L. Mencken of a string of wet sponges. … It is so bad that a sort of grandeur creeps into it. When Harding died, E. E. Cummings lamented, The only man, woman or child who wrote a simple declarative sentence with seven grammatical errors is dead. Being mush-mouthed helped give the patrician Bushes the common touch. As Alistair Cooke observed, Americans seem to be more comfortable with Republican presidents because they share the common frailty of muddled syntax and because, when they attempt eloquence, they do tend to spout a kind of Frontier Baroque.

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LBN-OVERHEARD: ***All the way to his guilty verdict, O.J. Simpson was complaining he’s a victim of racism. As a Las Vegas jury last week deliberated armed-robbery charges, a spy reports Simpson told one associate: “This is really depressing. I feel like I’m back in the ’50s – a black man in a white justice system.” ***Publicist Cindi Berger has one headache she won’t miss – her longtime client Sharon Stone is now with Tom Cruise’s p.r. honcho, Paul Bloch. Berger – who saw Stone through a variety of messes, including the wacky actress insulting China and falsely claiming she was a member of Mensa – was fired after Stone lost custody of her son, Roan, to ex-hubby Phil Bronstein. Stone has claimed the assertions in court that she wanted to Botox Roan’s stinky feet were “a lie.

LBN-QUOTE: “My regime before concerts is scrupulous. I have no wine, I don’t speak to anyone all day, I eat moderately and have no sex. Sex is the enemy of the athlete and the artist. Anyway, when it’s not a very important concert, I break that rule” – Andrea Bocelli.

LBN-HISTORY: On October 5, 1947, in the first televised White House address, President Truman asked Americans to refrain from eating meat on Tuesdays and poultry on Thursdays to help stockpile grain for starving people in Europe.

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2. What Makes You Unique? I was brought up working in my dad’s auto mechanic shop and knew more about cars by the age of 6 then most men learn in a lifetime

3. If you could sleep with one celebrity, who would it be? He may not be considered a celebrity by a lot of people, but Brady Quinn! And I don’t even like the Cleveland Browns!

4. If you could have dinner with one dead person, who? Johnny Cash
5. If you could live anywhere in the world for a year, where and why? Greece – that’s where my family is from and I love the country’s laidback culture.

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SATURDAY • OCTOBER 4, 2008

JUICED! Thirteen years to the day after being acquitted of killing his wife and her friend in Los Angeles, O.J. Simpson was found guilty of robbing two sports-memorabilia dealers at gunpoint in a Las Vegas hotel room. The 61-year-old former football star was convicted of all 12 counts late Friday after jurors deliberated for more than 13 hours. He released a heavy sigh as the charges were read and was immediately taken into custody. Simpson, who went from American sports idol to celebrity-in-exile after his murder acquittal, could spend the rest of his life in prison. His attorney said he would appeal.

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PAULSON TO ‘RAPIDLY’ IMPLEMENT RESCUE PLAN: Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson pledged Friday to “move rapidly” on a 700-billion-dollar financial rescue plan passed by Congress giving him authority to buy up assets distressed by the housing collapse. “The American people will appreciate the leadership of their elected representatives and senators who took bold action to help stem a severe credit crunch that threatens to cost many jobs and undermine access to credit for working Americans,” Paulson said after the House of Representatives passed the measure. “We will move rapidly to implement the new authorities, but we will also move methodically.”

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U.S. MILITARY SAYS AL QAEDA IN IRAQ MASTERMIND DEAD: Coalition forces in Baghdad have killed the man believed to be the mastermind of recent bombings in the Iraqi capital, the U.S. military said. Mahir Ahmad Mahmud Judu al-Zubaydi, also known as Abu Rami and Abu Assad, was believed to be the leader of one of al Qaeda in Iraq’s Baghdad networks, the military said in a statement issued Friday. The military said intelligence reports led coalition forces to a building in Baghdad’s Adhamiya neighborhood Friday. They surrounded the building and called on the occupants to surrender but were engaged by small arms fire, the military said. The forces returned fire and killed two people, Abu Rami and a female, the military said.

REPORT: NORTH KOREAN LEADER MAKES PUBLIC APPEARANCE: North Korean leader Kim Jong Il has made his first public appearance in more than a month, a state-run news agency said from Pyongyang on Saturday amid speculation about his health. Kim watched a university soccer game held to mark the 62nd anniversary of the founding of the university named after his late father, North Korea founder Kim Il Sung, the Korean Central News Agency reported.

HOMELAND SECURITY SEEKS CYBER COUNTERATTACK SYSTEM: First, there was “Einstein,” the federal government’s effort to protect itself from cyber attacks by limiting the number of portals to government computer systems and searching for signs of cyber tampering. Then Einstein 2.0, a system now being tested to detect computer intrusions as they happen. And in the future? Perhaps Einstein 3.0, which would give the government the ability to fight back. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff on Friday said he’d like to see a government computer infrastructure that could look for early indications of computer skullduggery and stop it before it happens. The system “would literally, like an anti-aircraft weapon, shoot down an attack before it hits its target,” he said. “And that’s what we call Einstein 3.0.”

LBN-SEE IT:…..Bolivia’s President Evo Morales, wearing a wreath of coca leaves, fruits and flowers, walks through a coca field as soldiers eradicate coca plants in Asunta, Bolivia, Saturday, Oct. 4, 2008. Morales has rejected a request from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, DEA, to fly anti-narcotics missions over Bolivia.

LBN-COMMENTARY By CARL BERNSTEIN: Palin appeared to lack any semblance of the requisite depth, knowledge, or sense of history we should expect in a president or vice president. As a Republican former White House chief of staff said to me, “Palin is evidence of desperation; she is an embarrassment.”

LBN-BOOK NEWS: ***A new book claims to have solved one of the last great mysteries of the 20th century – the identity of “D.B. Cooper,” the notorious hijacker who parachuted from a Boeing 727 in 1971 with $200,000 in cash and vanished without a trace. And, in an odd twist, the culprit has ties to the family of Abraham Lincoln. In “The Last Lincolns: The Rise & Fall of a Great American Family” (Union Square Press), Charles Lachman, executive producer of “Inside Edition” and a former Post reporter, says “Cooper” was really Jack Coffelt, the chauffeur of Abe Lincoln’s great-grandson, Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith. ***Tina Fey, already the busiest of stars thanks to her Emmy-winning role in “30 Rock” and definitive impersonation of Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, is working on a book. According to two publishing officials with knowledge of the negotiations, Little, Brown and Company will release a book of humorous essays by the 38-year-old Fey. Her many writing credits include “30 Rock” and “Saturday Night Live,” and the feature film “Mean Girls.”

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LBN-MEDIA INSIDER: ***Campbell Brown has found resonance with CNN viewers by taking a more opinionated approach on her show, Election Center.

LBN-NOTICED: ***Josh Lucas wearing an “Obama ‘08″ T-shirt at the Vanity Fair after-party at Commerce for opening night of the Naked Angels’ off-Broadway play “Fault Lines”. ***Gore Vidal yukking it up in the front row at LA’s Odyssey Theater for director Mike Leigh’s revival of his 1977 play “Abigail’s Party,” starring Phoebe James. ***Donna Karan celebrating her birthday with a festive crew at The Box in NYC. ***John Mayer downstairs at Frog nightclub on Spring Street in NYC. ***Hollywood legal legend Bruce Ramer having lunch yesterday at Piccolo Paridiso in Beverly Hills. ***Rock and roll legend Danny Goldberg signing copies of his new memoir, Bumping Into Geniuses for friends and fans at Book Soup last night in West Hollywood.

LBN-COMMENTARY By SEN. FRITZ HOLLINGS: Having been governor, I am frequently asked the difference of being a governor and senator. As governor, if you want to raise revenue you raise taxes. As senator, if you want to raise revenue you cut taxes.

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LBN-BUSINESS INSIDER: ***The insurer said it had already drawn down $61 billion of its $85 billion emergency bridge loan, a move that startled credit ratings agencies.

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LBN-COMMENTARY By JAMES J. CRAMER: For more than a year, Ive been a huge bear on housing. From the moment the credit-crisis storm began to form, Ive been shouting in my usual unhinged way about just how bad the devastation would be, and carrying on about how anyone who bought a home in this environment would lose money immediately. At various points along the way, my house-hating judgment has been questioned, but Id say Ive been vindicated by the relentless decline in home values weve seen, the worst since the Great Depression. Even here, in our so-called real-estate-superstar city, prices may not have fallen, but the rate of acceleration has started to soften. These days, I dont know a soul who hasnt jumped on the real-estate-is-an-awful-investment bandwagon. When I interview the once-rabid bulls on housingthose who make their livelihood building and selling homes, like Bob Toll, the CEO of the best home builder in America, Toll BrothersI get grim predictions of nary a turn in sight. When I pressed Toll recently as to whether he sees any light at the end of the tunnel, he quickly answered yes: The light of an oncoming train!

LBN-HEALTH WATCH: ***One of the nations most influential psychiatrists earned more than $2.8 million in consulting arrangements with drug makers from 2000 to 2007, failed to report at least $1.2 million of that income to his university and violated federal research rules, according to documents provided to Congressional investigators. The psychiatrist, Dr. Charles B. Nemeroff of Emory University, is the most prominent figure to date in a series of disclosures that is shaking the world of academic medicine and seems likely to force broad changes in the relationships between doctors and drug makers.

LBN-THE “INSIDE” STORY: A woman has been refused the morning-after pill because it was against the pharmacists religious beliefs. Ruth Johnson (pictured above), was refused the emergency contraception by a locum pharmacist at a Tesco supermarket. She asked an assistant at the chemist counter for the pill Levonelle, but was told it had to be dispensed by the locum himself. Miss Johnson said: He told me that he would not be allowing me to buy the pill from him because he had a right to refuse to sell it on the basis of his personal beliefs. The pharmacist was of Asian origin, so I asked him if it was because of his Muslim religion and he replied yes. Miss Johnson, of Simons Place, Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire, UK complained to the manager of the Hewitts Circus branch. She said: I was told that it had nothing to do with them and that they couldnt force the pharmacist to sell it, despite him working in their store. A Tesco spokesman said the pharmacist advised Ms Johnson on other places to purchase the pill, but was acting within his rights to refuse to dispense it himself. He said: We do apologize to Miss Johnson for the inconvenience caused. However, the Royal Pharmaceutical Societys code of ethics allows pharmacists the right to refuse.

LBN-COMMENTARY By BILL O’REILLY: This week marks the opening of two highly charged movie comedies. The first, “Religulous,” is a Borat-style journey starring Bill Maher that is designed to demonstrate that anyone who believes in God is a total moron.

LBN-COMMENTARY BY NANCY PELOSI: We are all believers in the free market — it’s part of our democracy. We know that the free markets create jobs, create capital, and create wealth — that’s very important. But recently, left unregulated and undisciplined and unsupervised, they create chaos. That was then; this is now. We’re about the future, and that is the direction we want to take our policy. We want to take our economy in a New Direction for the middle class.

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LBN-OVERHEARD: ***Howard Stern and his longtime girlfriend Beth Ostrosky were married in New York City on Friday night, according to guests who attended the celebration. The guest list for the wedding, held at the restaurant Le Cirque, included Joan Rivers, Barbara Walters, Billy Joel and wife Katie Lee, Jimmy Kimmel, Sarah Silverman and Stern’s radio co-host, Robin Quivers. ***A judge has given his final in the lawsuit over the video of Anna Nicole Smith’s breast augmentation surgery. The judge ruled once and for all … Dr. Gerald Johnson and his wife had no right to peddle the tape. Anna Nicole never gave permission for the video, but the doc insisted he taped surgeries all the time and the confidentiality agreement died when Anna did. But the judge said it wasn’t so.

LBN-QUOTE: “There are a lot of people, because of the downsizing of Wall Street, who wont be getting a paycheck at all. They would love to be involved.”-JOSHUA S. SIEGEL, of Stone Capital Partners, on recruiting people to oversee the Treasurys bailout effort.

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1. Name: Lorelei Shellist

2. Occupation: Author-Spokeswoman- Spiritual Counselor – Life Coach

3. In 10 Years I will be: Living in a quaint house on the beach where constant surf rolls in from a point break.

4. Which band would you like to see reunite? Haven’t they all done that already? Its called the “Alimony Tour”.

5. I confess, I have a problem with authority figures.

6. What was your first car? White ’60s Dodge Lancer

7. If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be? My hair

8. On what occasion do you lie? When a cop pulls me over.

9. What talent would you most like to have? Guitar players talent.

10. E-mail and website: lorelei@runwayrunaway.com http://www.runwayrunaway.com


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SUNDAY • JULY 20, 2008

IRAQI PM DISPUTES REPORT ON WITHDRAWAL PLAN: A German magazine quoted Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki as saying that he backed a proposal by presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq within 16 months. “U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama talks about 16 months,” he said in an interview with Der Spiegel that was released Saturday. “That, we think, would be the right time frame for a withdrawal, with the possibility of slight changes,” he said. But a spokesman for al-Maliki said his remarks “were misunderstood, mistranslated and not conveyed accurately.”

POPE URGES AUSTRALIAN YOUTHS TO SPURN MATERIALISM: Pope Benedict XVI said Sunday a “spiritual desert” was spreading throughout the world and he challenged young people to shed the greed and cynicism of their time to create a new age of hope for humankind. Speaking at a Mass before some 350,000 Roman Catholic pilgrims and a likely television audience of millions more, Benedict wrapped up the church’s six-day World Youth Day festival. He urged the young people in his more than 1 billion-strong flock to be agents of change because “the world needs renewal.”

LBN-MEDIA INSIDER: ***Ann Curry has been moonlighting as a stand-up comic. The soft-spoken “Today” show host shocked the audience when she walked onstage at Caroline’s on Broadway the other night and performed a set. “She had a camera crew from the show with her,” said our spy. “She was filming a segment on facing your worst fears, and hers is public speaking, so she did stand-up.” ***Erin Burnett’s meteoric rise is the most recent example of how television networks try to transform fresh-faced hosts into household names.

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CHINA TO BAR ENTERTAINERS IT DEEMS A THREAT: Foreign entertainers who have taken part in activities that China deems a threat to its sovereignty will not be allowed to perform here, according to new rules posted Thursday on the Web site of the Ministry of Culture. The rules say that the background credentials of performers from foreign countries, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan will be scrutinized. “Those who used to take part in activities that harm our nation’s sovereignty are firmly not allowed to perform in China,” the rules say.

LBN-COMMENTARY BY ROGER FRANSECKY: Here’s several questions to begin your own happiness audit: “Am I living a life I love, and one that allows me to be happy?” Listen to the wisdom of your heart, and tell yourself the truth. Ask yourself: ***What brings vitality to my life? When do I feel most alive? ***What is my proudest achievement? ***What is my greatest gift? My legacy? ***For what are you most grateful? These questions invite you to ponder the symphony of your experience, the missed notes, the flourishes and the coda. I don’t deny that life can be rough, that you can (and will) experience mistakes, excesses, lies and lessons, and on occasional loss, grief and sadness. Even Charles Schultz, the creator of “Peanuts,” the cartoon strip that brought us minor wisdom and wide smiles for decades, suffered his entire life with serious depression, a melancholy temperament and insecurities. Happiness can become your default state and not some elaborate life lie by acknowledging your gifts, your lessons, the people in your “cast” who love and teach, tolerate and celebrate you. You can choose between the ambiguity and clarity.

FOOT PATROL: As gasoline prices soar, police chiefs in towns and cities across the country are ordering their officers out of the car and onto their feet in a budgetary scramble.

LBN-BUSINESS INSIDER: ***Si Newhouse, the chairman of Cond Nast Publications, defies the image of the media baron driven by love of limelight, political influence or money.

LBN-HEALTH WATCH: ***Al Hubbard, architect of the Bush-cum-McCain health plan, compares Americans’ use of the health care system to shoppers who indiscriminately buy caviar while someone else foots the bill.

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LBN-COMMENTARY BY THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN: I am reliably told by a Bush administration official that there is an old saying in Texas that goes like this: “If all you ever do is all you’ve ever done, then all you’ll ever get is all you ever got.” Could anyone possibly come up with a better description of President Bush’s energy policy? America is in the midst of its worst energy crisis in years and what is the big decision our Decider has decided? Drum roll, please: Our Decider decided to lift the executive orders banning drilling for oil and natural gas off the country’s shoreline — even though he knew this was a meaningless gesture because a Congressional moratorium on drilling passed in 1981 remains in force. The economist Paul Romer once said to me that “a crisis is a terrible thing to waste.” President Bush is well on his way to being remembered as the leader who wasted not one but two crises: 9/11 and 4/11. The average price of gasoline in the U.S. last week, according to the Energy Information Administration, was $4.11. After 9/11, Mr. Bush had the chance to summon the country to a great nation-building project focused on breaking our addiction to oil. Instead, he told us to go shopping. After gasoline prices hit $4.11 last week, he had the chance to summon the country to a great nation-building project focused on clean energy. Instead, he told us to go drilling. Neither shopping nor drilling is the solution to our problems.

LBN-NOTICED: ***A sober Richie Sambora sipping club soda while his Bon Jovi band members guzzled 1985 Sassicaia Cabernet during dinner at The Spotted Pig in NYC. ***Jennifer Hudson buying five pairs of shoes at Steven by Steve Mad den on Ludlow Street in NYC.

LBN-SPORTS INSIDER: ***Greg Norman is one step from rewriting his own history, and the record for the oldest golfer to win an Open, leading the 137th British Open by two strokes after three rounds.

LBN-COMMENTARY BY MAUREEN DOWD: I have a girlfriend in New York who puts her boyfriends through Feats of Strength. Whenever she gets serious about somebody, she brings them home to Wisconsin, ostensibly for a relaxing vacation with her family. Then she leads them through their outdoorsy paces — biking, hiking, golfing, shooting hoops, swimming — to see if they can pass muster with her athletic clan. It starts to dawn on these young men in the middle of their romantic triathlon that they are on a perilous quest and that if they falter, another lad might touch down in Kenosha several months hence. Now Barack Obama is about to embark on his own Feats of Strength.

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LBN-OVERHEARD: ***Oscar De La Hoya’s niece, Daisy – also known as the surgically enhanced, airheaded runner-up on Bret Michael’s reality skankfest, “Rock of Love” – is now dating Dave Navarro, but the show’s done nothing for her career. The former stripper had hoped to hit it big in Hollywood, but instead is doing personal appearances at down-market Jersey Shore restaurants. The Marlin in Beach Haven sent out a flier last week touting “Sunday Lobster Night” and noted that its “Saturday Entertainment” would be Daisy. ***Anne Hathaway’s scheming ex, Raffaello Follieri, is about to get the Vanity Fair treatment. A local source contacted by one of the magazine’s writers said “I worked with Follieri for like a month several years ago. That’s it. I stopped working with him because something struck me as being odd. And I never thought anything more of it. But then I get this call. Vanity Fair is being very thorough. I mean, if they found me – imagine who else they’re talking to?” Follieri, who claimed to be selling Vatican-owned property to private investors, is currently trying to work out a deal with the DA.

LBN-QUOTE: “I think a lot of people in this country have a lot more debt than they let the outside world know. I worked in retail for five years. And men, women would open up their wallets to pay and the credit cards that were in some of the wallets just amazed me.”
DIANE McLEOD, whose home is in foreclosure.

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1. NAME: Sony Holland
2. WHAT MAKES YOU UNIQUE? I’m not the dizzy blond stereotype people might peg me for, but I can play that role if necessary!
3. IF YOU COULD SLEEP WITH ONE CELEBRITY, WHO WOULD IT BE? Charlize Theron. I’m sure that would be fine with my husband too.
4. IF YOU COULD HAVE DINNER WITH ONE DEAD PERSON, WHO? I would love to befriend Marilyn Monroe over dinner and drinks. If you don’t mind I’d like to invite Peggy Lee to join us too.
5. IF YOU COULD LIVE ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD FOR A YEAR, WHERE AND WHY? New York City, because I’m turned on by its intensity and mix of cultures. I never get enough when I visit for a week or two.
6. OCCUPATION: Making songs come alive.
7. WHAT’S THE BEST THING ABOUT YOUR JOB? That special moment on stage when the whole world stops to revel in an exquisite love song.
8. WHO WOULD YOU WANT TO BE IN ANOTHER LIFE? I’d take Marilyn’s body and Einstein’s brains. Killer combo!
9. DO YOU KNOW ANYONE WHO’S HAD SEX FOR MONEY? I have some girlfriends who’ve married for money but that includes a house, a car and credit cards, so it’s not purely a cash transaction. Oh, and sometimes I tip my husband if he does a good job.
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SATURDAY • JULY 19, 2008

BUSH, IN A SHIFT, ACCEPTS CONCEPT OF IRAQ TIMELINE: President Bush agreed to “a general time horizon” for withdrawing American troops in Iraq, the White House announced Friday, in a concession that reflected both progress in stabilizing Iraq and the depth of political opposition to an open-ended military presence in Iraq and at home. Mr. Bush, who has long derided timetables for troop withdrawals as dangerous, agreed to at least a notional one as part of the administration’s efforts to negotiate the terms for an American military presence in Iraq after a United Nations mandate expires at the end of the year.

OBAMA IN AFGHANISTAN: Barack Obama launched his week-long world tour with a brief stop in Kuwait and then began a longer visit to Afghanistan, ahead of planned stops in Iraq, Jordan, Israel, Germany, France and England. The highly anticipated trip was launched in secrecy, with Obama’s campaign refusing to confirm that he had left the country, citing security reasons. The campaign announced early Saturday morning that Obama was on the ground in Kabul, Afghanistan. The U.S. military later said Obama was greeting U.S. troops at Jalalabad airfield in eastern Afghanistan.

U.S. STOCKS BREAK SIX-WEEK SLUMP AS CITIGROUP BEATS ESTIMATES: U.S. stocks snapped a six-week losing streak after better-than-estimated results from Citigroup Inc., JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Wells Fargo & Co. alleviated concern that earnings will extend their yearlong slump.

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IN TALKS, IRAN SAYS NO TO SUSPENDING ENRICHMENT: Tehran on Saturday ruled out freezing its enrichment program, casting doubt over the sense of key nuclear talks between Iran and six world powers less than an hour after they began. The talks – with the U.S. in attendance for the first time – had raised expectations of possible compromise on a formula that would have had Iran agree to stop expanding its enrichment activities. In exchange, the six powers, including the five permanent United Nations Security Council members, would hold off on passing new U.N. sanctions against the Islamic Republic.

BEIJING BEGINS MASSIVE OLYMPIC SHUTDOWN: Beijing’s Olympic shutdown begins Sunday, a drastic plan to lift the Chinese capital’s gray shroud of pollution just three weeks ahead of the games. Half of Beijing’s 3.3 million vehicles will be pulled off the roads and many polluting factories will be shuttered. Chemical plants, power stations and foundries left open have to cut emissions by 30 percent – and dust-spewing construction in the capital will be halted.

TALIBAN THREATEN TO KILL OFFICIALS HELD HOSTAGE: The Pakistani Taliban have taken dozens of hostages, including police officers, paramilitary fighters and even state bank officials, and threatened on Friday to begin killing them unless the government released four of their comrades captured last week. The standoff has grown into one of the most serious recent challenges to the government’s resolve to curb the militants’ rapid expansion. The threat comes just 10 days before Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani is scheduled to meet with President Bush at the White House.

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Participants in a high heel race wait for a start of the event at Red Square in Moscow, Saturday, July 19, 2008. Participants of the high heel run were challenged to race in stilettos of at least 9 cm (2.54 inches).

LBN-BUSINESS INSIDER: ***Merrill Lynch & Co. declined in New York trading after the third-biggest U.S. securities firm reported a wider-than-estimated second-quarter loss on $9.7 billion of credit-market writedowns. ***Google Inc. shares plunged nearly 10 percent Friday after the Internet search leader’s second-quarter earnings missed analysts’ expectations.

CUBA TO GRANT PRIVATE FARMERS ACCESS TO LAND: President RaÃºl Castro continued his rollout of changes in Cuba on Friday with the start of a plan to boost the island’s sluggish food production by granting private farmers access to up to 99 acres of unused government land. Cuba seized land from most large-scale farmers after the 1959 revolution; the latest announcement in the Communist Party newspaper Granma stopped well short of a return to pre-revolution private enterprise.

LBN-HOLLYWOOD INSIDER: ***The Mummy’s scary, but no match for the censor. Director Rob Cohen reluctantly had to trim some bloody footage from “The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor” to get a PG-13 rating.

LBN-NOTICED: ***David Beckham seems to go incognito when he’s in New York. The soccer superstar, who’s usually trailed 24 hours a day by paparazzi, managed to slip into Nobu 57 for a solo dinner Thursday night. “He had two bodyguards dressed down in jeans and button-downs who stood near him,” said our spy. “He looked so hot, he was wearing a hat and you could tell it was him, but oddly, no one else noticed.” ***L.A. real estate czar Donald Sterling outside Mr. Chow’s last night.

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LBN-SPORTS INSIDER: ***Two-time champion Greg Norman, who hasn’t won on the regular professional golf circuit in 10 years, is in second place at Royal Birkdale, one stroke behind leader K.J. Choi, the only golfer under par.

HALF A MILLION DOLLARS FOUND IN DIAPERS IN MEXICO: A package of baby diapers yielded an unlikely load in Mexico on Friday, according to the defense ministry: nearly half a million dollars in cash. Soldiers conducting a routine check “found in a tractor-trailer a packet of diapers containing 490,300 dollars,” the ministry said in a statement.

LBN-PRESIDENTIAL BACK ROOM: ***Phil Gramm, a top adviser to presidential candidate John McCain, is resigning from the role as campaign co-chairman after his comments that the United States had become a “nation of whiners” who constantly complain about the state of the economy.

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In this photo released by Riverside County Calif., Sheriff’s Department, comedian Andy Dick is shown after being arrested for suspicion of drug possession and sexual battery early Wednesday morning July 16, 2008, in Murrieta, Calif.

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LBN-OVERHEARD: ***Ed McMahon sued a hospital, two doctors and an investment tycoon Friday over a neck injury he has said has left him unable to work, a circumstance he has blamed for his recent money woes. The lawsuit seeks an unspecified amount, claiming negligence, battery, elder abuse and intentional infliction of emotional distress. It was filed in Los Angeles Superior Court against Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, two doctors, and the owner of a home where he says he fell in March 2007. ***Billy Joel bade a stirring farewell to Shea Stadium on Friday during an electrifying, sold-out final show at the same ballpark where the Beatles famously ushered in a new era in rock ‘n’ roll four decades ago. He was joined by an all-star lineup of friends including Paul McCartney, who told Joel, “Came here a long time ago. We had a blast that night and we’re having another one tonight.” ***Paul Simon is suing a wall clock distributor for using the song “Bridge Over Troubled Waters” to keep time. Simon filed suit in Manhattan federal court today, claiming Rhythm USA Inc. has sold 40,000 wall clocks that play versions of his legendary tune. Simon wants to clean the company’s clock to the tune of $10 mil. Like a “Bridge Over Troubled Waters,” that should ease his mind.

LBN-QUOTE: “I would never have imagined that they would turn me down because of what I choose to wear.”
FAIZA SILMI, a Muslim who applied for French citizenship and was turned down because she wears a veil.

LBN-HISTORY: On July 19, 1941, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill launched his “V for Victory” campaign in Europe.

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2. What Makes You Unique? The passion that I focus on what I do – its not just a job.
3. If you could sleep with one celebrity, who would it be? I’m pretty sure that would not be a great idea given my job(did I get away with that one?)
4. If you could have dinner with one dead person, who? This is hard as there are so many industry greats, alive, I would kill to dine withbut I would say Katherine Hepburn.
5. If you could live anywhere in the world for a year, where and why? Where, – Los Angeles – to spend a year as the talent gateway at a major studio, my business is so crossed over now with the US I could learn a huge amount and give back even more from my international skill setWhy, – because then you know everyone, and more that that, they know you!
6. Occupation: Television Agent/Manager
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8. Who would you want to be in another life? I think me again – its been such a trip so far I have a feeling I’ll need another life to get everything done!
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TUESDAY • MAY 6, 2008

AID WORKERS FEAR BURMA CYCLONE DEATHS WILL TOP 50,000: Foreign aid workers in Burma have concluded that as many as 50,000 people died in Saturday’s cyclone, and two to three million are homeless, in a disaster on a scale comparable with the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. The official death count after Cyclone Nargis stood at just under half that by 1300 GMT today, at around 22,500 people dead plus a further 41,000 missing.

OIL HITS RECORD ABOVE $121 ON SUPPLY WOES: Oil futures surpassed $121 a barrel for the first time Tuesday, the spike fueled by worries about threats to supply and a weakening of the U.S. dollar. The surge in oil prices was also fueled by hopes that the U.S. economy will be spared a sharp downturn after the release of data Monday showing an unexpected expansion in the U.S. service sector in April, analysts said.

BUSH PRAISES MEXICAN AMERICANS AT CINCO DE MAYO DINNER: President Bush wished a gathering of dinner guests a “Feliz Cinco de Maya” Monday in his final White House celebration of the Mexican holiday — slightly erring in his Spanish, but serving up a reminder of how he snared Hispanic votes in the last presidential election. While the heated immigration debate has caused some strain between the United States and Mexico, Bush was more conciliatory Monday. He said Cinco de Mayo is a chance to prove the two countries are “connected by more than geography.” He referred correctly to the day, Cinco de Mayo, in other parts of his brief speech.

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GATES SAYS BIG CHANGES IN STORE FOR INTERNET IN NEXT DECADE: Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates said there will be a vast shift in Internet technology over the next decade as he met Tuesday with South Korean President Lee Myung-bak. “We’re approaching the second decade of (the) digital age,” the software mogul and philanthropist told Lee at the start of their meeting at the presidential Blue House, according to a media pool report. “The Internet has been operating now for 10 years,” Gates said. “The second 10 years will be very different.” Microsoft Corp., the South Korean government and South Korean companies are investing $313 million in information technology for vehicles, games and education, according to a Blue House statement.

BERNANKE URGES MORE ACTION TO STEM HOME FORECLOSURE CRISIS: A rising tide of late mortgage payments and home foreclosures poses considerable dangers to the national economy, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke warned anew as he urged Congress to take additional steps to alleviate the problems. “High rates of delinquency and foreclosure can have substantial spillover effects on the housing market, the financial markets and the broader economy,” Bernanke said Monday in a dinner speech to Columbia Business School in New York. “Therefore, doing what we can to avoid preventable foreclosures is not just in the interest of lenders and borrowers. It’s in everybody’s interest,” he said.

LBN-SEE IT…….A child has her mouth disinfected in prevention against a kind of intestinal virus, identified as enterovirus 71 or EV71, at a kindergarten in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province May 6, 2008. Fears of a virus that has killed at least 26 children in China gripped parents in Beijing on Tuesday amid a spreading outbreak of hand, foot and mouth disease……

GAS TAX: State gas taxes often add far more to the price of gas than the 18.4-cent federal excise tax.

MCCAIN WOOS HISPANICS AND LAUNCHES SPANISH WEB SITE: John McCain reached out to Hispanic voters on Monday as he sought to win over a constituency that has moved away from his Republican Party but could prove key in swing states in a close U.S. presidential election in November. The Arizona senator’s campaign launched a Spanish language Web site to mark the Mexican Cinco de Mayo festival and McCain told reporters that “everything about our Hispanic voters is tailor-made to the Republican message.”

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DIARIES SHOW SADDAM FEARED GETTING AIDS IN PRISON: Saddam Hussein feared catching AIDS or other diseases during his U.S.- supervised captivity, a leading Arab newspaper said Monday in publishing excerpts of his prison writings. The London-based Al-Hayat said the comments came in portions of Saddam’s prison dairies that it obtained from U.S. authorities. The U.S. military confirmed some of the late Iraqi leader’s writings had been released. When Saddam found out his U.S. military guards were also using his laundry line to dry clothes, he wrote that he demanded they stop, according to the excerpts. “I explained to them that they are young and they could have young people’s diseases,” Saddam wrote. “My main concern was to not catch a venereal disease, an HIV disease, in this place.” He said some soldiers ignored his request.

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DANGER DAY: HILLARY FACES ‘15-POINT DEFEAT’ IN NC; SEES INDIANA WIN: Hillary Clinton’s inner circle now fears a stinging defeat is likely in North Carolina. “Look, we worked hard and gave it our best shot, but the demographics, well, they are what they are,” a top campaign source explained to the DRUDGE REPORT as voting began Tuesday morning. The campaign now believes a 15 point loss, or more, would not be surprising. Her team will work hard throughout the day to lower all expectations in North Carolina. The campaign hopes media attention will stay fixated on the competition in Indiana, where 72 delegates are on the line, and Clinton internals show a victory!

LBN-BUSINESS INSIDER: ***The owner of Tropicana casinos in Atlantic City and Las Vegas has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, nearly five months after New Jersey regulators stripped the Tropicana Casino and Resort of its license. ***In the failed Microsoft-Yahoo marriage it was Google that played the odd dual role of unwitting matchmaker and self-interested spoiler.

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LBN-NOTICED: ***Music attorney Gary Stiffelman having lunch yesterday at Breeze Restaurant in the Century City Hotel. ***New York Times best selling author Robert Shemin (How Come That Idiot’s Rich and I’m Not?) visiting the LCO offices in L.A. for a meeting with his publicist, Liam Collopy. ***BE AN LBN-CORRESPONDENT – send your celeb sightings to LBNElert@TimeWire.net.

LBN-PRESIDENTIAL BACK ROOM: ***Clinton’s attacks on oil prices as artificially inflated, Enron-style, keep escalating, and today she appeared to threaten to break up the organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. “We’re going to go right at OPEC,” she said. “They can no longer be a cartel, a monopoly that get together once every couple of months in some conference room in some plush place in the world, they decide how much oil they’re going to produce and what price they’re going to put it at,” she told a crowd at a firehouse in Merrillville, IN.

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LBN-MEDIA INSIDER: ***Sumner Redstone is downplaying speculation of a “battle” between his Viacom and CBS, saying such talk “has been manufactured” by the media. Redstone also says: “We cannot tolerate piracy by anyone, including YouTube.” ***NBC Universal plans to announce that $3 million will be the entry price for a commercial at the 2009 Super Bowl. While individual slots have sold at that level before, it has never been the starting point for negotiations for the dozens of 30-second ads sold for the game. ***Former “CBS Evening News” anchor Dan Rather will be on the air Tuesday night at HDNet for coverage of the North Carolina and Indiana presidential primaries. The “conversation”-style reporting will be televised live in front of an audience at the Newseum in Washington, D.C. ***The New York Times and MSNBC are joining forces for a new political show, “The New York Times Special Primary Edition,” hosted by John Harwood. Times-journos will handicap the election in the series of specials. Segments will also run on NYTimes.com. ***Playboy Enterprises is reporting that it swung to a first-quarter loss of $3.1 million from a profit of $1.5 million in the year-earlier period. The Chicago-based firm cites “continued structural and economic pressures on the company’s domestic media businesses” for the decline.

LBN-SPORTS INSIDER: ***Still saddened by the death of his filly Eight Belles, the owner Rick Porter said Monday that he had no regrets about running her in the Kentucky Derby.

LBN-COMMENTARY By MICHIKO KAKUTANI: Fareed Zakaria contends that the age of unipolar American power is over, writing that “we are moving into a post-American world, one defined and directed from many places and by many people.”

SLED DOGS: Scientists are studying sled dogs that run the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in an attempt to understand why the dogs are “fatigue-proof.”

LBN-HEALTH WATCH: ***A growing band of researchers is trying to redefine how diseases are classified — by looking at their genetic underpinnings. ***A new study indicates that a high-fat diet has proved effective in reducing seizures in children whose epilepsy does not respond to medication.

LBN-COMMENTARY BY BENEDICT CAREY: Exaggeration, it seems, can be part of a plan for self-improvement.

LBN-BOOK NEWS: ***Peter Olson, the chief executive of Random House and one of the most powerful figures in U.S. book publishing, will step down in the next few weeks, according to two executives at Bertelsmann, the German media conglomerate that owns the division.

LBN-HOLLYWOOD INSIDER: ***Jerry Bruckheimer and Michael Bay may be re-teaming for a Warner Bros. TV drama series that could air on HBO. The project, says Variety, is loosely based on the 2006 documentary “Cocaine Cowboys.” ***Media Rights Capital has hired longtime CAA agent Tory Metzger as president of its film group. She will oversee production, business affairs, sales and marketing, and sit on MRC’s greenlight committee. ***APA has hired former UTA agents Jonathan Perry and Brian Dow as part of plans to expand the agency. Perry’s clients include Alyson Hannigan, Ashley Scott, Moira Kelly, Audrina Patridge and the Kardashian family. He also will rep newly signed APA clients Gina Gershon, Vinnie Jones, Tom Arnold, and Yeardley Smith.

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LBN-OVERHEARD: ***After a separation lasting more than three years now sparked by former Gov. James McGreevey’s admission on national television that he was a gay American, he and his estranged wife, Dina Matos McGreevey, arrived for divorce proceedings Tuesday morning. ***Jennifer Aniston has Sheryl Crow to thank – or not – for her hookup with John Mayer last week. A spy in Miami said, “Sheryl insisted they meet and, well, the rest is history.”

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FRIDAY • MAY 2, 2008

STOCKS RISE AND DOW CROSSES 13,000 AS DOLLAR ADVANCES: Wall Street shot higher Thursday as investors, while anticipating another dismal jobs report Friday, viewed the rising dollar and falling oil prices as promising signs for the economy. The Dow Jones industrial average soared nearly 190 points to close above 13,000 for the first time since Jan. 3.

REGULATORS ZERO IN ON CREDIT CARD REFORM: Federal regulators are pushing ahead to stop abuses by credit card issuers at a time when the $2 trillion industry has come under increasing scrutiny. On Thursday, the Office of Thrift Supervision, responsible for overseeing the nation’s savings and loans, endorsed a seven-point plan to tackle “unfair” and “deceptive” practices by companies that issue credit cards. The plan would allow consumers more time to pay their monthly bill. It would prevent companies from applying interest-rate increases retroactively to pre-existing balances. And it would ban “double cycle billing,” a practice that computes finance charges based on previous billing cycles.

CROWDS ARE SMALLER AT PROTESTS BY IMMIGRANTS: Relatively small crowds of thousands of immigrants and their supporters marched in several cities on Thursday to demand civil rights at a time when crackdowns against illegal immigrants are rising. The May Day demonstrations were significantly smaller than in previous years, and gone were calls for a nationwide boycott of businesses and work, as protest leaders had urged last year. The Spanish-language D.J.’s who had heavily promoted previous marches stuck largely to their regular programming. And disagreements among advocates over the best approach to winning legal status for illegal immigrants had diminished organizing firepower, with many groups turning their attention to voter registration and citizenship drives.

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HOME DEPOT TO CLOSE 15 UNDERPERFORMING US STORES: It’s been 4 1/2 years since former Home Depot Chief Executive Bob Nardelli’s bold prediction that the home improvement retailer could sustain “unlimited growth” without significantly affecting sales at established stores. That statement was made during much better economic times. The Atlanta-based company, under different leadership, a different growth philosophy and amid an ailing housing market, put the brakes Thursday on some of its future expansion plans and said it would do what was previously unthinkable — close 15 of its underperforming flagship stores.

FEWER LATINO IMMIGRANTS IN U.S. SENDING MONEY HOME: More than three million Latin American immigrants in the United States, responding to the economic downturn and new uncertainties about their future, have stopped sending money home to their families in the last two years, according to a survey released on Wednesday by the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington. Only 50 percent of some 18.9 million Latino immigrants in this country now send money regularly to relatives in their home countries, compared with 73 percent two years ago, the survey found.

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MAYBE NEXT TIME: Police in Texas said a 21-year-old man was arrested and accused of trying to cash a check for $360 billion. Police in Fort Worth said they arrested Charles Fuller last week when bank tellers noticed the ridiculously large amount and called the woman whose name was on the check. The woman said Fuller is her daughter’s boyfriend, but she had not given him a check–and certainly not one for billions of dollars. Fuller has been charged with fraud, police said. Police said they found 2 ounces of marijuana and a gun in his pockets when they arrested him, so he also faces charges foe unlawfully carrying a weapon and possession of marijuana.

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CUBA’S PROBLEMS: President RaÃºl Castro’s tinkering may be tiny compared to Cuba’s problems, but he is still shaking up the country.

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LBN-PRESIDENTIAL BACK ROOM: ***Speaking of math — the Obama campaign rolls out another former DNC chairman’s endorsement on Friday: Paul Kirk, a superdelegate who led the party from 1985-1989, is coming out for Obama.

LBN-BUSINESS INSIDER: ***Citing unnamed people familiar with the matter, the Wall Street Journal reported early Friday that the world’s largest software maker may be preparing to go straight to Internet pioneer Yahoo’s shareholders. ***Main Street may be struggling, but Wall Street is on a bit of a roll. Despite a drumbeat of bad economic news, the stock market is up — almost 11 percent in the last few weeks. Junk bonds, those risky corporate IOUs, are rallying. The value of financial shares, bank loans, tricky credit derivatives — up, up, up. Many on Wall Street, the epicenter of the credit mess, seems to think that the worst is over. ***Amazon.com is fighting back with a lawsuit trying to strike down New York state’s new law forcing the online retailer to collect sales taxes on the state’s behalf.

LBN-MEDIA INSIDER: ***The once-frosty relationship between Fox News and the Democratic candidates seems to have grown warmer as they find each other useful. ***Playwright, actor and filmmaker Tyler Perry, media mogul Rupert Murdoch, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg are among the newsmakers on Time magazine’s list of the world’s 100 most influential people.

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AIRLINES SLOW DOWN FLIGHTS TO SAVE ON FUEL: Drivers have long known that slowing down on the highway means getting more miles to the gallon. Now airlines are trying it, too – adding a few minutes to flights to save millions on fuel. Southwest Airlines started flying slower about two months ago, and projects it will save $42 million in fuel this year by extending each flight by one to three minutes.

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APRIL U.S. SALES SHOW SHIFT TO SMALLER CARS: Automakers reported higher sales of small cars as oil and gasoline prices climbed to record highs in April, but said Thursday that overall vehicle sales in the United States plummeted during the month. Sales decreased 23 percent from April 2007 at General Motors and 19 percent at Ford Motor. Toyota’s sales fell 4.5 percent, and Nissan’s declined 1.6 percent. The numbers are adjusted to account for two more selling days in April this year.

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MERRY MARRIED CAREY; TIES KNOT WITH TOY CANNON: “Touch My Body” singer Mariah Carey, 38, got secretly hitched yesterday to her 27-year-old boyfriend after a one-month relationship, shocking the chart-topping songbird’s family and friends. Carey married TV actor Nick Cannon at the home she just bought in Eleuthera in the Bahamas, a source close to the singer said.

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LBN-OVERHEARD: ***After three decades of keeping mum, Barbara Walters is disclosing a past affair with married U.S. Senator Edward Brooke, whom she remembers as “exciting” and “brilliant.” ***A statement from Sheryl Lowe. It reads: “As a mother of two young boys, it is sickening and disgusting that Mrs. Allred and Ms. Boyce would stoop so low as to drag a child into this latest, baseless, predatory lawsuit. To falsely attack my husband is one thing, to attack me is another, but to do this to our son reveals not only their lack of character, but how far they are willing to go to play the ‘lawsuit lotto.’” ***Joe Francis has been cleared of sex charges in L.A. An L.A. County Superior Court judge has dismissed the sexual battery charge against the “GGW” founder, because no one can find the alleged victim.

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THURSDAY • MAY 1, 2008

CHINESE BUILD SECRET NUCLEAR SUBMARINE BASE: Satellite imagery shows that a substantial harbor has been built which could house a score of nuclear ballistic missile submarines and a host of aircraft carriers. In what will be a significant challenge to US Navy dominance and to countries ringing the South China Sea, one photograph shows China’s latest 094 nuclear submarine at the base just a few hundred miles from its neighbors. The US Department of Defense has estimated that China will have five 094 nuclear submarines operational by 2010 with each capable of carrying 12 JL-2 nuclear missiles.

LEADER OF AL-QAIDA IN SOMALIA REPORTEDLY DIES IN AIRSTRIKE: The U.S. military killed a man believed to be the head of al-Qaida in Somalia and 10 others in an airstrike overnight, an Islamic insurgent group said Thursday. The U.S. military confirmed an attack on a suspected al-Qaida target but did not identify the target. Aden Hashi Ayro was killed when the airstrike struck his house in the central Somali town of Dusamareeb, about 300 miles north of Mogadishu, said Sheik Muqtar Robow, a spokesman for the Islamic al-Shabab militia.

ACLU: PENTAGON DOCUMENTS HIGHLIGHT INTERROGATION METHODS: The military continued to use abusive interrogation methods on detainees after a 2003 directive meant to end such practices, the American Civil Liberties Union said Wednesday after reviewing newly released documents. The Department of Defense documents shed light on the use of psychologists in military interrogations and the failure of medical workers to report abuse of detainees, the ACLU said.

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LBN-POLITICAL BACK ROOM: ***Republican John McCain is making promises that would cost billions of taxpayer dollars, yet he is vague about how he would pay for them. McCain is handing around a campaign grab bag of goodies. There are little treats like a summer gas-tax holiday and new mortgages for struggling homeowners, and there are big plums like tax breaks for corporations and families with children. ***A leader of the Democratic Party under Bill Clinton switched his allegiance to Barack Obama on Thursday and urged fellow Democrats to end the bruising nomination fight. “This has got to come to an end,” former Democratic National Committee Chairman Joe Andrew told reporters in his hometown of Indianapolis just days before Tuesday’s crucial state primary. He said he planned to call all the other superdelegates he knows and encourage them to back Obama.

WHITE HOUSE ADMITS FAULT ON ‘MISSION ACCOMPLISHED’ BANNER: White House said Wednesday that President Bush has paid a price for the “Mission Accomplished” banner that was flown in triumph five years ago but later became a symbol of U.S. misjudgments and mistakes in the long and costly war in Iraq. Thursday is the fifth anniversary of Bush’s dramatic landing in a Navy jet on an aircraft carrier homebound from the war. The USS Abraham Lincoln had launched thousands of airstrikes on Iraq. “Major combat operations in Iraq have ended,” Bush said at the time. “The battle of Iraq is one victory in a war on terror that began on Sept. 11, 2001, and still goes on.” The “Mission Accomplished” banner was prominently displayed above him–a move the White House came to regret as the display was mocked and became a source of controversy.

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WILL CARDS FOR INMATES SOLVE CRIMES? Inmates in 58 county jails across New York are getting playing cards with the pictures of missing persons in hopes the photos will jog memories and help solve cold cases. Under a state Senate pilot program, 7,200 decks of cards are being sent to the jails. They include telephone numbers of tip lines that offer rewards to anyone — including prisoners — who provide information about the crimes. The cards were paid for with a $10,000 grant from Republican Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno from funds he controls.

MUKESH AMBANI’S $2 BILLION HOME WORLD’S MOST EXPENSIVE: The 27-storey skyscraper being built in Mumbai by Mukesh Ambani, the richest person in India, could be the world’s largest and costliest home with a price-tag nearing two billion dollar. “When the Ambani residence is finished in January, completing a four-year process, it will be 550 feet high with 4,00,000 square feet of interior space,” Forbes said in a report on its website. Earlier in March, Mukesh Ambani was ranked as the fifth richest person in the world with a net worth of 43 billion dollars by the magazine.

NOW WORLD’S FIRST CLONED HORSE GIVES BIRTH TO ‘PERFECTLY HEALTHY’ FOAL: The world’s first cloned horse has given birth to a foal. Prometea, cloned in 2003 by Italian professor Cesare Galli, gave birth to Pegasus six weeks ago, the geneticist said. Professor Galli said that both mare and foal were doing well and added that he planned to create other cloned horses for reproduction.

POLICE: WOMAN BELIEVED TO BE ‘D.C. MADAM’ KILLS HERSELF: A woman police believe to be convicted Washington escort service operator Deborah Jeane Palfrey committed suicide, officials said Thursday. Police said the body was found in a shed near Palfrey’s mother’s home Thursday morning. There was a suicide note, but police did not disclose its contents or how she killed herself.

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OUTRAGE IN ITALY: ITALY POSTS INCOME DETAILS ON WEB: There has been a fury in Italy after the outgoing government published every Italian’s declared earnings and tax contributions on the internet. The tax authority’s website was inundated by people curious to know how much their neighbors, celebrities or sports stars were making. The Italian treasury suspended the website after a formal complaint from the country’s privacy watchdog. The information was put on the site with no warning for nearly 24 hours.

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U.S. HAS MANDELA ON TERRORIST LIST: Nobel Peace Prize winner and international symbol of freedom Nelson Mandela is flagged on U.S. terrorist watch lists and needs special permission to visit the USA. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice calls the situation “embarrassing,” and some members of Congress vow to fix it. The requirement applies to former South African leader Mandela and other members of South Africa’s governing African National Congress (ANC), the once-banned anti-Apartheid organization. In the 1970s and ’80s, the ANC was officially designated a terrorist group by the country’s ruling white minority. Other countries, including the United States, followed suit. “This is a country with which we now have excellent relations, South Africa, but it’s frankly a rather embarrassing matter that I still have to waive in my own counterpart, the foreign minister of South Africa, not to mention the great leader Nelson Mandela,” Rice said.

LBN-BUSINESS INSIDER: ***Soaring prices for food, gas and other everyday needs pushed consumer spending to a faster pace than expected in March. The Commerce Department reported Thursday that consumer spending was up 0.4 percent, double the increase that economists had forecast. ***Microsoft Corp. directors failed to decide on the next step in the pursuit of Yahoo! Inc. yesterday, leaving open the debate over whether to walk away from the $44.6 billion bid or fight to replace the Internet company’s board. ***Nearly 7 1/2 months after its chief executive said there were no plans to cut the number of its core retail stores, The Home Depot Inc. announced Thursday that it is shuttering 15 of them amid a slumping U.S. economy and housing market. The move will affect 1,300 employees. ***Starbucks, faced with a sharp drop-off in customers, reported on Wednesday that earnings declined 21 percent during the second quarter. Starbucks reported that net income declined to $108.7 million, or 15 cents a share, from $150.8 million, or 19 cents a share, in the year-ago quarter. The company said revenue rose 12 percent, to $2.5 billion.

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MEMPHIS PRINCIPAL ACCUSED OF OUTING GAY STUDENTS: Attorneys for the American Civil Liberties Union say Daphne Beasley, the principal of Hollis F. Price Middle College High School in South Memphis, went way beyond her role as educator. The ACLU says in September 2007, Beasley asked her staff to give her the names of students who were couples, heterosexual and homosexual, because she wanted to keep an eye on them to cut down on public displays of affection. She’s accused of publicly posting the names of those students, including two boys, Andrew and Nicholas, who had just started dating. The ACLU says that in doing so, Beasley revealed their relationship to other students, teachers and even their parents.

TMZ IDENTIFIES 14-YEAR-OLD ALLEGED SEX CRIME VICTIM: Breaking with standards widely followed by the mainstream news media, the celebrity Web site TMZ posted a story Wednesday about a 14-year-old who’s a movie star’s son and an alleged sex crime victim, and it ran the boy’s picture. The story said the boy was in a relationship with a 22-year-old woman, whose ex-boyfriend tipped off police that she was having sex with a minor. Almost all news organizations refrain from identifying sex crime victims, let alone show their picture, because of the stigma often attached to it, said Kelly McBride, ethics group leader at the journalism think tank Poynter Institute. Harvey Levin, managing editor of TMZ, refused to speak about the decision to run the story.

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WEDNESDAY • APRIL 30, 2008

AL QAEDA, COHORTS REMAIN WORST TERRORISM THREAT: U.S.: Nearly seven years after the September 11 attacks, al Qaeda remains the biggest terrorist threat to the United States and its allies, the U.S. State Department said in an annual report on Wednesday. The country-by-country survey of terrorism trends and incidents in 2007 said al Qaeda had used tribal areas of Pakistan to reconstitute some operational capabilities, replace killed or captured fighters and rebuild its leadership.

FEDERAL RESERVE CUTS KEY INTEREST RATE BY QUARTER-POINT: The Federal Reserve cut a key interest rate by a quarter-point, a smaller move than the aggressive easing it undertook earlier this year. The Fed action, announced Wednesday after a two-day regular meeting, pushed the federal funds rate down to 2 percent, its lowest level since late 2004. It marked the seventh consecutive rate cut by the central bank since it began easing credit conditions last September to combat the growing threat of a recession brought on by a deep housing slump and credit crisis. The rate cut will mean lower borrowing costs throughout the economy as banks reduce their prime lending rate, the benchmark for millions of consumer and business loans.

ROGER WATERS’ LOST OBAMA PIG IS FOUND: A giant helium-filled pig didn’t drift off to hog heaven after it was released into the night sky during Roger Waters’ performance at the Coachella music festival. It’s been found – in pieces. Two couples found tattered halves of the inflatable swine in their yards, a few miles from festival grounds in the Southern California desert. Concert organizers had offered a $10,000 reward for the pig’s return. On Tuesday, pieces of the plastic carcass were examined. “That’s definitely our pig,” producer Bill Fold said. The two couples will split the cash reward, Fold said.

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ECONOMY GROWS BY ONLY 0.6 PERCENT IN 1ST QUARTER OF 2008: The bruised economy limped through the first quarter, growing at just a 0.6 percent pace as housing and credit problems forced people and businesses alike to hunker down. The country’s economic growth during January through March was the same as in the final three months of last year, the Commerce Department reported Wednesday. The statistic did not meet what economists consider the classic definition of a recession, which is a retraction of the economy. This means that although the economy is stuck in a rut, it is still managing to grow, even if modestly.

FATHER OF LSD DIES: Albert Hofmann, the father of the mind-altering drug LSD whose medical discovery inspired – and arguably corrupted – millions in the 1960s hippie generation, has died. He was 102. For decades after LSD was banned in the late 1960s, Hofmann defended his invention. “I produced the substance as a medicine. … It’s not my fault if people abused it,” he once said. The Swiss chemist discovered lysergic acid diethylamide-25 in 1938 while studying the medicinal uses of a fungus found on wheat and other grains at the Sandoz pharmaceuticals firm in Basel. He became the first human guinea pig of the drug when a tiny amount of the substance seeped onto his finger during a laboratory experiment on April 16, 1943. “I had to leave work for home because I was suddenly hit by a sudden feeling of unease and mild dizziness,” he subsequently wrote in a memo to company bosses. He said his initial experience resulted in “wonderful visions.”

LBN-COMMENTARY By KARL ROVE: When it comes to choosing a president, the American people want to know more about a candidate than policy positions. They want to know about character, the values ingrained in his heart. For Mr. McCain, that means they will want to know more about him personally than he has been willing to reveal.

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HIRING LEAPS IN PUBLIC SECTOR: Federal, state and local governments are hiring new workers at the fastest pace in six years, helping offset job losses in the private sector. Governments added 76,800 jobs in the first three months of 2008, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports. That’s the biggest jump in first-quarter hiring since a boom in 2002 that followed the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

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DANGERS REMAIN FOR VIRGINIANS DIGGING THROUGH TWISTER DEBRIS: From the governor to the people whose homes were demolished, Virginians were amazed and grateful that a tornado that injured 200 people killed no one. But in many ways, police and fire officials say, the worst may lie ahead. In disasters like these, Bob Spieldenner recalls, the aftermath can bring as much danger as the storm itself. “That’s the way it was with Hurricane Isabel,” the Virginia Department of Emergency Management spokesman said, referring to the last major natural calamity to hit Suffolk, a city of 80,000 west of Norfolk. “There were more people injured in the cleanup after Isabel than in the storm itself. We had people die of carbon monoxide (from running generators indoors), falling off roofs, falling out of trees,” he said.

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LBN-BUSINESS INSIDER: ***Citigroup Inc., under pressure to bolster capital depleted by mounting losses, sold $4.5 billion of stock, 50 percent more than it planned. ***The European Union has approved a German bailout of WestLB, a regional bank that lost billions from U.S. mortgages gone bad. Germany can now put up 5 billion euros ($7.8 billion) to help the bank ride out its exposure to the subprime banking crisis. The Duesseldorf-based bank lost 1.6 billion euros ($2.5 billion) last year on risky investments in securitized U.S. mortgages that were approved for people with poor, or no credit history. ***The stock market advanced today, driving the Dow Jones industrial average up more than 100 points as investors reacted to better-than-expected economic and corporate reports ahead of the Federal Reserve’s decision on interest rates. ***Time Warner Inc. reported a 36 percent decline in first-quarter profits Wednesday following an asset sale a year ago and said it would spin off the rest of its cable business. The world’s largest media conglomerate, which owns Warner Bros., AOL, CNN and Time magazine, earned $771 million or 21 cents per share in the first three months of the year, down from $1.2 billion or 31 cents per share a year ago.

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LBN-COMMENTARY By BOB CITRON: During the past 7 million years at least 21 different species of hominids emerged and all but one became extinct. During the past 160,000 years homo sapiens spread throughout planet Earth and settled in virtually every livable habitat. Human populations remained reasonably stable – from a few tens to a few hundreds of thousands – until the end of the last ice age and the beginning of the agricultural revolution some 8,000 years ago. During the past 2,000 years there has been an explosive growth of human populations from perhaps about one hundred million to 6.6 billion. Virtually all of this population growth has taken place during the last two centuries. How have humans impacted planet Earth? How have humans affected planetary systems – the Earth’s atmosphere, climate, forests, oceans, biodiversity? What problems has this exponential growth of human populations caused for the planet and for humanity? What is happening to human populations today? What do current trends show about human and planetary prospects for the future?

LBN-BOOK NEWS: ***Instant Help, the extraordinary line of self-help books for children, teens, and parents and founded by internationally renowned child psychologist Dr. Lawrence Shapiro, is proud to unveil six new titles on May 1. Dr. Shapiro is helping kids and teens tackle tough emotional issues head on with specially designed workbooks offering easy and fun activities to teach kids and teens effective skills for dealing with a variety of mental health issues–skills they will continue to draw on throughout adulthood. Parents and therapists alike are finding the Instant Help line extremely useful in helping kids cope with their feelings and thrive after major life changes, including divorce or the death of a loved. ***A book about the rise and stunning decline of former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer, co-authored by the makers of a book and documentary about the fall of Enron, is being published by Penguin Group. Peter Elkind, who helped write the 2003 best-seller “Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room,” is collaborating on the Spitzer book with filmmaker Alex Gibney. ***Stephenie Meyer, a sensation with teens because of her million-selling “Twilight Saga” vampire novels, wonders how readers will feel about her first adult book, “The Host.” “It would just be cool if my existing fans liked it,” the 34-year-old Meyer said. “And I hope to get some new readers who would never go into the YA (Young Adult) shelves.”

LBN-HEALTH INSIDER: ***More than 3 out of 4 new moms now breast-feed their infants, the highest rate in the U.S. in at least 20 years, according to a government report released Wednesday. About 77 percent of new mothers breast-feed, at least briefly, up from 60 percent in 1993-1994, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said. ***Costs for nursing homes, assisted living facilities and some in-home care services have increased for a fifth consecutive year, and could rise further if a shortage of long-term care workers isn’t resolved, a new study indicates.

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LBN-OVERHEARD: ***David Blaine set a new world record Wednesday for breath-holding, 17 minutes and 4 seconds. The feat was broadcast live during “The Oprah Winfrey Show” and the studio audience cheered as divers pulled the 35-year-old magician from a water-filled sphere. Blaine looked relaxed afterward and said the record was “a lifelong dream.” ***Fire tore through a hip nightclub at the storied corner of Hollywood and Vine on Wednesday, covering the landmark-studded neighborhood with smoke and ash. No injuries were reported. The one-story building, built in the 1920s or ’30s, is now home to the Basque Nightclub & Restaurant, but it was not open at the time, firefighters said. ***Senate candidate Al Franken, dogged by accusations that he failed to file tax returns in California, said Tuesday he will pay about $70,000 in back income taxes in 17 states dating to 2003. Most of the income at issue was from speeches and other paid appearances by the comedian-turned candidate, who said he got bad advice from his accountant but takes responsibility for the errors.

LBN-DID YOU KNOW? ***63,000 jobs were lost in February. It’s the biggest decline in four years, after economists predicted a gain of 25,000 jobs. ***The U.S. Federal Reserve pledged to inject $200 billion into the banking system, prompting a March 11 market rally that saw the Dow Jones industrial average surge 417 points–its biggest one-day gain in five years. ***7,882 breast augmentation surgeries were performed on American teens in 2007, up 55% from 2006. 47.4% of those augmentations were based on aesthetic preference; others were performed to correct asymmetries or deformities.

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TUESDAY • APRIL 29, 2008

OPEC SAYS OIL COULD HIT $200: Opec’s president on Monday warned oil prices could hit $200 a barrel and there would be little the cartel could do to help. The comments made by Chakib Khelil, Algeria’s energy minister, came as oil prices hit a historic peak close to $120 a barrel, putting further pressure on global economies.

GASOLINE PRICES TOP CONCERNS OVER JOBS, HEALTH TROUBLES: Paying for gasoline easily tops the list of economic woes facing families in the United States, according to a survey on how changes in the economy have affected people’s lives. About 44 percent of survey participants said paying for gasoline was a “serious problem” for them. Across all income levels, the cost of gas was the most frequently cited economic concern. The price of gas nationally averaged $3.60 a gallon on Monday, according to the Energy Department.

MCCAIN MOVES TO MIDDLE ON HEALTH CARE: Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) is proposing a greater federal commitment to people without health insurance on Tuesday, suggesting that it help funds states to set up non-profit risk pools to help Americans who are denied coverage or can’t afford it. McCain’s health-policy experts provided a ballpark estimate of $7 billion a year for the new federal commitment.

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LBN-HEALTH WATCH: ***Health researchers projected that each percentage-point rise in unemployment would swell the uninsured by 1.1 million, stoking demand for government health coverage.

LBN-BUSINESS INSIDER: ***Although rival carrier Continental Airlines abandoned merger talks, United will keep looking for a partner, its chief executive, Glenn F. Tilton, said. ***Upon completing his offer for a total of 120 million shares, Kirk Kerkorian would own a 5.6 percent stake in Detroit’s second-largest automaker. ***General Motors plans to slash production of big trucks and sport utility vehicles by nearly 140,000 units this year, a move that would eliminate assembly shifts at four plants.

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WEEPING SCHOOLGIRLS WISH HAPPY BIRTHDAY SADDAM: Hundreds of Iraqi schoolchildren were brought to the modest mausoleum of Saddam Hussein on Monday to celebrate the birthday of the executed dictator in the village where he was born. Saddam, who was hanged in late 2006 for crimes against humanity, is hated in much of Iraq. But in parts of his native Salahuddin Province, especially among his fellow Sunni Arabs, he is still revered.

IRANIAN OFFICIAL WARNS AGAINST IMPORTING BARBIE DOLLS: A top Iranian judiciary official warned Monday against the “destructive” cultural and social consequences of importing Barbie dolls and other Western toys. Prosecutor General Ghorban Ali Dori Najafabadi said in an official letter to Vice President Parviz Davoudi that the Western toys was a “danger” that needed to be stopped.

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REBATES: The federal government began issuing electronic tax rebates under a $168 billion program to bolster the economy.

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CHILEAN MAYOR TO OFFER FREE VIAGRA TO OLDER MEN: For the first time in Chile, a mayor plans to give out free Viagra to men 60 and older in his town to improve their “quality of life” four times a month, according to media reports. “This has to do with quality of life and it’s done responsibly. It’s not just like handing out candy at the corner,” Gonzalo Navarrete, a physician and mayor of the poor town of Lo Prado south of Santiago, told Las Ultimas Noticias daily.

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LBN-COMMENTARY By DENNIS PRAGER: To its credit, The New York Times — through its public editor — has acknowledged that the Times is liberal; and anyone intellectually honest understands this is true.

LBN-MEDIA INSIDER: ***The Hollywood Reporter completed a wholesale overhaul of its iconic brand, including a redesigned look and format for its print and digital publications and revised editorial approach.

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LBN-COMMENTARY By DR. MAOSHING NI: Did you know that orphaned babies stop growing and even die from the lack of touch and love? Similarly, researchers have long observed that unconscious patients who are regularly touched recover faster than those who do not receive touch. I can confirm through my own personal experience of being in a coma for a month, after an accidental fall from the rooftop of our three story house when I was a kid. The loving touch from my parents kept me alive and fighting for my life. So, touch literally saved my live. ***(Dr. Mao is a Licensed Acupuncturist, a Diplomat of Chinese Herbology and a Diplomat in Anti-Aging) – To reply directly to him, send an e-mail to LBNElert@TimeWire.net.

LBN-SEE IT:…..An Austrian police handout picture released April 28, 2008 shows a man suspected of keeping his daughter prisoner and abusing her for 24 years in the basement of a house in the small Austrian village of Amstetten. An Austrian woman said she was kept prisoner and abused by her own father for 24 years in a basement dungeon in eastern Austria, where she bore him seven children, Austrian police said on April 27, 2008……

SUPPOSED HENDRIX SEX TAPE IS OFFERED: In a twist on the recent string of sex tapes of Hollywood’s young stars, Vivid Entertainment plans to release what it says is a film from the vaults of classic rock: a sex film supposedly of Jimi Hendrix. The film shows a naked man who resembles Hendrix, the guitar legend who died in 1970, wearing a bandanna in his Afro, having sex with two brunettes in a dimly lighted bedroom. His full face appears on screen for only a few seconds, with his eyes closed. In other portions there are flashes of his profile. But his hands, bedecked with rings, roam large on the screen at times. The film has no audio.

LBN-STAT…..The average cost of an uncomplicated pregnancy was $7,539 in 2004: hospital delivery ($5,819); prenatal office visits ($1,178); prescribed medicine ($392); and other prenatal ($151).

PLAYING ON FEAR: The latest crime craze in Mexico relies on a variety of tricks to make people believe their loved ones are being held for ransom, when, in fact, they are not.

LBN-HOLLYWOOD INSIDER: ***Mel Gibson has committed to star in “Edge of Darkness,” marking his first starring role in a feature film since he headlined “Signs” and “We Were Soldiers” in 2002. Martin Campbell will direct the feature adaptation of the six-hour 1985 BBC miniseries, which Campbell also helmed.

LBN-COMMENTARY By THOMAS SOWELL: There is no reason why someone as arrogant, foolishly clever and ultimately dangerous as Barack Obama should become president.

LBN-NOTICED: ***Steve Guttenberg hasn’t been an A-lister since the ’80s, but the guy still parties like one. We spotted the “Police Academy” star dancing and lighting up a funny-smelling cigarette in a dark corner of Suzy Wong’s in NYC on Saturday, where he sat with a table full of gorgeous girls. ***Hollywood agent Chris Barrett having lunch at the Grille on the Alley on Rodeo. ***BE AN LBN-CORRESPONDENT – send your celebrity sightings to LBNElert@TimeWire.net.

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LBN-POLITICAL BRIEFING By DICK MORRIS: Does Hillary Clinton really believe she can overtake Barack Obama among elected delegates? No way. The math is dead against her and she’s a realist. Even after Pennsylvania, Obama still leads by more than 140 in elected delegates. They’ll likely break even in Indiana and he’ll win North Carolina where one third of the vote is African-American. After that? If she wins Kentucky, West Virginia, and Puerto Rico by 15 points and they break about even in Guam, North Dakota, Montana, and Oregon, she’ll still trail him by at least 130 votes among elected delegates. Does she believe she can persuade super delegates to vote for her? Again, probably not. Obama has steadily eroded her edge among super delegates and now they are almost tied among committed super delegates. And the prevailing sentiment among those that remain is not to overturn the will of the voters. So why is Hillary still running so hard? Why is she especially focused on pushing up Obama’s negatives? Until the last vote is counted on June 3rd, we can chalk up her persistence to determination, courage and sheer obstinacy. But if she persists in her candidacy after the last primary, we must begin to consider whether she has an ulterior motive.

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LBN-OVERHEARD: ***Pamela Anderson is now, officially, an American dream. The inflatable Canadian became a US citizen late last week, and celebrated by going to the White House Correspondents dinner Saturday night. ***Ashley Dupre filed a lawsuit today against “Girls Gone Wild” founder Joe Francis, claiming she never gave GGW permission to use her name and likeness to advertise videos — and she’s asking for $10 mil. ***Model Angie Everhart was arrested for DUI early last Thursday and held on $15,000 bail. ***Amy Winehouse, finally making news for her music again, is tipped to be composing the theme song for the upcoming James Bond film, “Quantum of Solace.” Winehouse, who’s retro-dipped soul lyrics have already referenced Bond actors, is said to be working on the tune with producer/collaborator Mark Ronson.

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MONDAY • APRIL 28, 2008

EX-OBAMA PASTOR TELLS NAACP HE’S DESCRIPTIVE, NOT DIVISIVE: The former pastor of Barack Obama whose words have rallied many but offended others told an audience of 10,000 that his critics get it wrong when they call him divisive and polarizing. “I describe the conditions in this country,” the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. said during the NAACP’s 53rd annual Fight for Freedom Fund Dinner. “I’m not here for political reasons. I’m not a politician. I know that fact will surprise many of you because many in the corporate-owned media made it seem like I am running for the Oval Office,” Wright said. “I am not running for the Oval Office. I’ve been running for Jesus a long, long time and I’m not tired yet.”

OIL NEARS $120 FOLLOWING LABOR AND MILITARY STRIKES: Oil prices hit an all-time high near $120 a barrel Monday after a weekend refinery strike closed a pipeline system that delivers a third of Britain’s North Sea oil to refineries in the U.K.

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AUTHORITIES PROBE ATTACK ON AFGHANISTAN’S PRESIDENT: Afghan security officials hunted Monday for suspects in the attempted assassination of President Hamid Karzai during an attack that killed three people and underscored the fragility of his U.S.-backed government. Militants also wounded eight people when they fired rockets and automatic rifles at Karzai and other dignitaries during a Sunday ceremony in Kabul to mark the mujahedeen victory over the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan.

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TAX REBATES START SHOWING UP IN BANK ACCOUNTS MONDAY: The government started depositing thousands of rebate checks in taxpayers’ bank accounts on Monday, earlier than originally scheduled, with the Bush administration hoping the payments will give a jump-start to a weak economy. The Internal Revenue Service started making the deposits at 8:30 a.m. EDT Monday with the goal of completing 800,000 direct deposits each day over the first three days of this week. No deposits will be made Thursday while the IRS prepares a big batch of 5 million direct deposits scheduled on Friday.

MILEY CYRUS ON SEMI-TOPLESS PIC: ‘I Feel So Embarrassed’!: Pop star and 15-year-old Disney sensation Miley Cyrus tells ET she’s “embarrassed” about an upcoming photograph of her appearing semi-topless in the new Vanity Fair issue. “I took part in a photo shoot that was supposed to be ‘artistic’ and now, seeing the photographs and reading the story, I feel so embarrassed,” she tells ET. “I never intended for any of this to happen and I apologize to my fans who I care so deeply about.” The photo, on stands next week, accompanies an interview with Miley and her dad, BILLY RAY, and were shot by famed photographer Annie Leibovitz. As seen on our show promo last week, they show Miley sitting in profile with just a blanket wrapped around her chest.

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MCCAIN CALLS OBAMA INSENSITIVE TO POOR PEOPLE: Republican presidential candidate John McCain on Sunday called Democratic rival Barack Obama insensitive to poor people and out of touch on economic issues. The GOP nominee-in-waiting rapped his Democratic rival for opposing his idea to suspend the tax on fuel during the summer, a proposal that McCain believes will particularly help low-income people who usually have older cars that guzzle more gas.

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STEEP DECLINE AT ‘NYT’ WHILE ‘WSJ’, LBN GAIN: Print circulation continues on its steep downward slide, the Audit Bureau of Circulations revealed this morning in releasing the latest numbers for some of the country’s largest dailies for the six-month period ending March 31, 2008. When a full analysis appears it is expected to find, according to sources, the biggest dip yet, about 3.5% daily and 4.5 for Sunday At the same time that the daily readership of this LBN E-Lert is soaring, now to 272,000 per day –The New York Times lost more than 150,000 copies on Sunday. Circulation on that day fell a whopping 9.2% to 1,476,400. The paper’s daily circulation declined 3.8% to 1,077,256. –At the Washington Post, daily circulation decreased 3.5% to 673,180 and Sunday dropped 4.3% to 890,163. –Meanwhile daily circulation at The Wall Street Journal grew a fraction of a percent, up 0.3% to 2,069,463 copies. USA Today experienced a greater increase. Circulation was up at the national daily 2.7% to 2,284,219. –The New York Post lost over 3% daily and more than 8% on Sunday. –Daily circulation at The Orange County Register plunged 11.9% to 250,724 and Sunday fell 5.3% to 311,982. –In Los Angeles, the Times lost more than 40,000 daily copies. Daily circulation there was down 5.1% to 773,884. Sunday declined 6.0% to 1,101,981.

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300-POUND INMATE COMPLAINS ARK. JAIL DOESN’T FEED HIM WELL: An inmate awaiting trial on a murder charge is suing the county, complaining he has lost more than 100 pounds because of the jailhouse menu. Broderick Lloyd Laswell says he isn’t happy that he’s down to 308 pounds after eight months in the Benton County jail. He has filed a federal lawsuit complaining the jail doesn’t provide inmates with enough food. According to the suit, Laswell weighed 413 pounds when he was jailed in September. Police say he and a co-defendant fatally beat and stabbed a man, then set his home on fire.

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