29 May 2007: Afternoon
By The Morning News
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In the span of 48 hours, four Europeans are abducted in Iraq, eight Americans are killed in combat, and 22 civilians are killed by car bombs.
Japanese cabinet member and high-level bureaucrat commit suicide over involvement in financial schemes.
She's “neither the demon of the right’s perception, nor a feminist saint." Preview of Bernstein's Hillary tell-all.
Britain's Ministry of Defense hopes "television at its very very best" won't sink its troops' chances in Iraq.
Op: If neither Israel nor Palestine will give up Jerusalem, let's make it a condo.
Falwell would be proud: Poland investigates Tinky Winky's sexual orientation.
Borat to pen travel books, Sasha Baron Cohen to clean up.
Die-hard Dirty Dancing fans now have a chance to stay in Baby's Bungalow and Johnny's Cabin.
Dutch television plans a reality show to choose which terminally ill patient gets the new kidney.
"His riposte is a single word, which is translated into English by the chunk of red meat he throws against a wall." Subtitling gets snazzy.
A catalog of "that guy" in movies.
S-E-N-E-C-T-I-T-U-D-E: The National Spelling Bee turns 80.
Private security patrols in posh London do little except bring up the freeloader problem.
Sacramento whales: If you don't start moving soon, it's whale sushi, we swear.
Crazed football fans, lovingly photographed. (More here.)
Some ideas are monumentally terrible, and some are the G-Shot.
