Headlines from May 29, 2007

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.
In the first formal talks between the U.S. and Iran since 1980, Iran offers to train Iraq's army.
U.S. military sees possible success in Iraq if we seek "ways to redefine success."
In Syria, a road revered for pilgrimage is now better known for Iraqi refugees, prostitutes.
Bush wants to put economic pressure on Sudanese government, forcing it to quell the violence.
Scientists announce isolation of bird flu antibody, could spark treatments. (Bruce Murphy's avian op-eds for TMN.)
Former head of Chinese food, drug safety convicted of corruption, sentenced to death.
The files have also yielded a picture of Pete Seeger at age 2... and an engagement photo of Diane Arbus. A dig through the New York Times subterranean morgue.
Beloved actor, Hollywood Square Charles Nelson Reilly dies.
Presidential hopeful Giuliani revamps image, learns to smile, guffaw.
Number of candidates likely to put a strain on Secret Service resources.
Disenchanted with the anti-war movement, Cindy Sheehan ends her protest.
"Cheers!" she says. Glasses clink and she takes a sip. Then she lights up a Tareyton 100. Barbara Holland's new ode to booze likely written while hung over.
My favorite font: Writers like whatever fakes a typewriter best.
Sergeant Pepper turns 40: The Times London revives its original 1967 review, and here's a look at who's who from the cover.