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Headlines for 20 April 2006

New York’s currently: trying hard to find something to complain about

 White House spokesman Scott McClellan resigns; Rove no longer in charge in policy, will instead focus on November elections.

 Why the White House shake-up? Big win for Democrats in November will send Bush into a lame-duck presidency.

 Nobody can figure out what intelligence director John Negroponte does; Negroponte defends his record, says, “integration.”

 Nepalese protest the rule of King Gyanedra, breach shoot-on-sight curfew; police fire on protesters, killing three.

 “Vengeance is never justice.” Families of Sept. 11 victims testify on behalf of Moussaoui.

 FCC to begin largest payola inquiry since the 1960 congressional hearings.

 Italy is pulling a Bush v. Gore.

 Patently Silly has real patents—real weird patents; “Roo Poo and Other Wacky Products from Australia.”

 Certain words, including “meta” and “subversive,” to be banned from the new Voice.

 Video: One never knows when the homosexual is about.

 Case of bubonic plague confirmed in Los Angeles—fleas are the likely culprit.

 Emergency medical guides for your iPod.

 I telephone the Church of Scientology’s headquarters at Saint Hill, claiming that I am concerned by my test results… A reporter’s view from inside the Church of Hubbard.

 Graduate author can’t pay the rent—or afford a sandwich.

 Woman survives carjacking, kidnapping, and being buried alive in a landfill.

 Queen lunches with 99 Brits born April 12, 1926.

 Why TMN’s Sarah Hepola shut down her blog. [Mp3 interview with her here.]

 New issue of Blueeyes Magazine.

 12. Wallace Shawn, 46. Leif Garrett, 79. Tom from MySpace. The 100 unsexiest men in the world.

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