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Week of 17 March 2008
17 March 2008
Jack Kevorkian is running for Congress ...
Are Britney Spears and Mel Gibson a couple? ...
Dalai Lama calls for investigation of Chinese suppression of Tibetans' protests ...
JP Morgan Chase gobbles wobbling Bear Stearns ...
Billionaire Roland Arnall dies of cancer at UCLA Medical Center ...
18 March 2008
Puff Daddy denies everything after L. A. Times fingers his associates in pre-murder attack on Tupac Shakur ...
Investment expert Jim Cramer said "Bear Stearns is not in trouble" a week before collapse (while Bear Stearns chairman James E. Cayne was playing cards) ...
Richard Gere is cleared of obscenity charges over kissing Shilpa Shetty ...
New York's new Governor David A. Paterson and his wife had lengthy extramarital affairs ...
Brad Pitt and Bill Clinton break ground in New Orleans ...
Nicole Kidman's bodyguard allegedly beats the bejeebers out of paparazzi ...
Gary Busey apologizes for Busey-like behavior on Oscar night ...
Heather Mills wins "quite surprisingly low" $48.6M in divorce from Paul McCartney ...
Film director Anthony Minghella dies of a cerebral hemmorhage at Charing Cross Hospital in London ...
19 March 2008
Paul Newman's athlete's foot is cancer, reports claim ...
Bench warrant issued for alleged illegal smoker Shia LaBeouf ...
Charlie Rose takes one for his MacBook Air ...
Busta Rhymes gets three years probation ...
Thomas Jane is arrested for suspicion of DWI ...
Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick rejects call for resignation ...
FEMA demands $209K to let newspaper see records on toxic trailers ...
To the stars forever, Arthur C. Clarke ...
Actor Paul Scofield dies from leukemia at a hospital in Sussex, England ...
Writer Arthur C. Clarke dies at age 90 in Sri Lanka ...
Belgian author Hugo Claus dies by euthanasia at an Antwerp hospital ...
20 March 2008
Rex Harrison was "a windy gentleman" ...
CSI solves murder at Magic Mountain ...
Skin cancer for Anderson Cooper ...
Krautrock drummer Klaus Dinger of Neu! dies of heart failure age 61 ...
21 March 2008
Playgirl has an offer for Eliot Spitzer ...
Lewis Libby loses his law license ...
China shuts websites that showed video of Tibetan protests ...
Angela Bassett is officially a Hollywood star ...
Sony charges $50 extra to sell you laptop with no crapware ...
22 March 2008
Lawsuit says Big Give wasn't Oprah Winfrey's idea ...
The Beatles sue to stop "bootleg" release ...
Starbucks must pay after swiping baristas' tips ...
Ten years after Mr. Show with Bob and David, Bob Odenkirk and David Cross come back to HBO ...
General Hospital celebrates 45 soapy years ...
Lawsuit is settled over lucrative Beach Boys name ...
23 March 2008
Congressman Barney Frank says he'll propose bill decriminalizing marijuana ...
China accuses Dalai Lama of taking Olympics hostage ...
Steve-O "accepts himself" in rehab ...
Bette Davis, though long dead, prepares for 100th birthday ...
Comcast considers program to watch customers ...