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...POLITICS 87,438 Number of friends listed on Illinois Senator Barack Obama's page on the social-networking site MySpace, the most among Democratic presidential hopefuls 34,296 Number of friends on Arizona Senator John McCain's MySpace page, the most among Republican candidates...
...little time for talking. "Our editor wants more [stalking]," he explains with the hint of a scoff. "Apparently we don't have enough for the front page...
...reliance on high-stakes exams that lead schools like Blaine to focus relentlessly on boosting scores rather than pursuing a broader vision of education. More than 30,000 educators and concerned citizens have signed an online petition calling for the repeal of the 1,100-page statute. Some offer comments like this one from a former superintendent of schools in Ohio: "NCLB is like a Russian novel. That's because it's long, it's complicated, and in the end, everybody gets killed...
...Jessica Simpson and John Mayer on or off? The New York Post's PAGE SIX can't decide, first saying "our spies saw Mayer flirting with other women ... and overheard the shaggy-haired musician tell friends he was 'happy being single.'" Later, Page Six claimed the two had reunited. Maybe somebody ought to ask Johnsica? SCORE...
...mourning traditions to its circumstances. During the war with Iran, Saddam barred newspapers from publishing wake notices; he worried that the sheer numbers of such notices would advertise just how badly his ill-judged war was going and demoralize his subjects. (Ironically, the current Iraqi government has taken a page out of the Saddam's rulebook, suppressing monthly death tolls and barring journalists and photographers from the scene of bomb blasts.) Undeterred by the dictator's orders, Iraqis developed a new custom: families in mourning painted notices on black banners - the name of the deceased, the manner of their death...