This fall, the young, bored and superrich have come up with a devastatingly effective method of disarming America's simmering outrage: they have learned to utterly humiliate themselves on cable television.

On "The Simple Life," the socialite Paris Hilton agrees to spend a month living with a farm family in Arkansas, along with Nicole Richie, the singer Lionel Richie's daughter.

Mark Lombardi was onto something ... His drawings - you could call them maps or charts, and they also have some connection with 19th-century panoramas - track global financial fiascos and related political shenanigans, mostly of the 1980's and 90's.

Hello everybody, welcome to our famous Cotton Club.

Great to see so many friends here tonight, enjoying themselves in spite of the cover charge.

And if you can spare a minute from your merry-makin', I'd like to have the pleasure of introducing, the greatest living master of jungle music,

the rip-roaring harmony hound none other than ...

A year and a half after President Bush demanded that the Palestinians remove Yasir Arafat from power, a new Palestinian government has now been installed and its unchallenged leader is ... Yasir Arafat. ... This is a tragic failure. ... Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's government says it will try harder with Mr. Qurei.

Israeli academic Jeff Halper has coined the phrase "the matrix of control" to describe the system of settlements, outposts, bypass roads, confiscated land masquerading as national parks, military zones, checkpoints and now hundreds of kilometres of a "separation wall" that together effectively entrap the Palestinian population in ghettoes across the West Bank and Gaza.

The 70,000 grocery workers on strike in Southern California are the front line in a battle to prevent middle-class service jobs from turning into poverty-level ones.

The supermarkets say they are forced to lower their labor costs to compete with Wal-Mart, a nonunion, low-wage employer aggressively moving into the grocery business.

Researchers were able to do the novel study as a part of the RAND Television and Adolescent Sexuality study, a national effort that is examining the role television plays in teenagers' development of sexual attitudes and behavior.

According to a new study, watching TV is a highly effective means of teaching teenagers about sensitive sexual issues like, just to name one, condom leakage.

Researchers at the RAND Corporation have found that a single episode of "Friends" centering on Rachel's unplanned pregnancy due to the untimely failure of Ross's condom stuck in the heads of most teenagers who viewed it, and especially those who viewed it with an adult and discussed it together afterward.

Maher Arar has been back from Syria for five weeks now, with his wife and two children in their simple apartment, earnestly pleading to all who will listen that he is an innocent casualty of the Bush administration's war on terror.

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