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...Announcer: "In the event that Cornell clinches the Ivy League title tonight, fans are invited to storm the court, but for the safety of everyone, wait until the visiting team has left the court." Boos from the rowdy Big Red crowd...
...teams trade baskets, then the buzzer sounds, and the Cornell fans storm the court chanting "Harvard sucks." Cornell is the first team in the country that is officially headed for the NCAA tournament after clinching the Ivy League with the victory tonight...
...bearing a poster of Bette Midler. She's posed in a cute blue dress with a short skirt that shows off her indestructibly fabulous gams; her smile is so electric it could light every casino on the Strip. A donkey wanders past, seemingly unimpressed, as, in the distance, a storm gathers strength. It morphs into a tornado, sending croupiers and chorines whizzing across the skyscape like Miss Gulch over Kansas. The door to an airborne Port-A-Potty swings open and an Elvis impersonator falls out. Now the video images give way to a crowd of real people on stage...
Better known for her tabloid love affairs, plastic surgery and husky voice, transsexual Turkish diva Bulent Ersoy makes the unlikeliest political activist. Yet she has caused a storm of outrage by becoming the only public personality to speak out against Turkey's invasion of northern Iraq. So pervasive is the nationalist climate that Ersoy has been vilified for declaring - on a national TV equivalent of American Idol, where she is a judge - that if she had a son, she would not have sent him to fight this war. She is now under investigation for being "anti-military...
...surprised a meeting of Jewish leaders by announcing plans to raise awareness of the Holocaust by requiring elementary school students to "adopt" the life and death of a child killed during the Shoah. Had Sarkozy bothered to consult more widely before making the announcement, he might have avoided the storm of criticism calling the plan inappropriate and potentially traumatic for such young children. He has since modified that proposal in the face of polls showing 61% of the French public hostile to the idea...