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...DAVID LETTERMAN, 57, right, who uses the material from time to time in his Late Show monologues. CBS executive Peter Lassally, a former producer of both the Carson and Letterman shows, told Reuters that Carson "gets a big kick out of that," and has long considered Letterman, not Jay Leno, his rightful heir. Looks like Leno will have to keep writing his own jokes...
...DIED. JAY SCHULBERG, 65, creator of such memorable ad campaigns as American Express's "Don't leave home without it" and the hugely successful ads for the milk industry featuring celebrities sporting milk mustaches; of pancreatic cancer; in Doylestown, Pa. As chief creative officer of Bozell Worldwide, he overruled a pitch to use an upside-down cow to sell milk, opting instead to decorate Lauren Bacall, Naomi Campbell, Pete Sampras and others with frothy milk mustaches in ads that generated worldwide publicity and spawned a 1998 best seller, The Milk Mustache Book, which he co-wrote...
WINNER: All of humanity. O'Reilly accepted Clooney's offer to appear alongside stars like Jay Leno and Christina Aguilera. Maybe the finger-wagging host can be in Ocean's Thirteen...
Since the original complaints were publicized, TSA has responded to public pressure, restricting invasive chest pat-downs to cases where handheld detectors are set off. But oversight measures should be improved so that TSA knows about the problem before Jay Leno mocks it on the Tonight Show. And there are still issues to be addressed: hiring enough female guards so that requests for same-sex screeners can be fulfilled, and making the procedures more transparent to keep passengers informed...
...Washington for guidance about how far interrogators could go against the new terrorist enemy. In the summer of 2002, the CIA and Gonzales asked the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel for an opinion on the definition of illegal interrogation methods. On Aug. 1, 2002, Assistant Attorney General Jay Bybee sent Gonzales the following guidance: the President is within his legal limits to permit his surrogates to inflict "cruel, inhuman or degrading" treatment on prisoners without violating strictures against torture. For an act of abuse to be torture, the interrogator must be inflicting pain "equivalent in intensity...