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SATURDAY, JULY 4, 2009

Serial Killer Fear Grips SC City Before July 4th

People plan to skip fireworks, keep guns handy until he's caught

 LA Braces for Jackson Masses 

City, hard-up for cash, also concerned about costs

 Teacher Sends 
 Kids Home With Porn 

DVD inadvertenly includes 'inappropriate images'

 Next Recession Victim: 
 Highway Rest Stops 

Drivers left crossing their legs as states close pit stops to save cash

OPINION
UPDATED

Jackson Memorial Tuesday at LA Arena After Family Service

20,000-seat coliseum will host farewell to the King of Pop

ANALYSIS
OPINION

 Jackson Memorial 
 Could Cost Fans, LA 

Service could be Tuesday at Staples Center

 Video Prison Visits  
 Bring Inmates Home  

Pioneering program lets loved ones visit jail without leaving home

ANALYSIS

Congress Hands Taxpayers Hefty Travel Tab

Jaunts to Paris, Kabul cost $13M last year, 10 times 1995 figure

SEC Staffer Was Waved Off Madoff Probe

Investigator's questions could have exposed Ponzi scheme in 2004

 200-Year-Old 
 Presidential Code 
 Cracked 

Mathematician unravels cipher that stumped Jefferson

Vatican Steps Up Scrutiny
of American Nuns

Nuns fear church heirarchy is seeking to return them to strictly traditional ways



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Off the Grid a Michael Wolff Newser Column

Jenny Sanford Is a Bummer

68
Jul 2, 09 | 9:03 AM BY Michael Wolff

How come Jenny Sanford has become a heroine for American women in the new sex wars? Ruth Marcus excitedly expressed the conventional wisdom on Mrs. Sanford in yesterday’s Washington Post, calling her a “model for the wronged political spouse.” Tina Brown, who, as I recall, stole her husband out from under another woman, detailed her keen satisfaction that Sanford had not stood shamefacedly by her husband’s side in the manner of Silda Spitzer... More »

Do You Use a Vibrator?

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Jul 1, 09 | 9:29 AM BY Michael Wolff

Apparently half of adult Americans use vibrators, according to a new study. That does not mean that women use vibrators and men don’t.... More »

Madoff Sentence: Is It a Jewish Thing?

26
Jun 30, 09 | 9:23 AM BY Michael Wolff

How many more years in prison did Bernie Madoff get for being Jewish? We might as well get the question out there. It’s surfaced... More »

Michael Jackson Goes to Heaven

14
Jun 29, 09 | 9:24 AM BY Michael Wolff

The New York Post has run an almost unaccountable number of Wacko Jacko headlines during Michael Jackson’s peculiar... More »

Who Killed Michael Jackson?

21
Jun 26, 09 | 8:40 AM BY Michael Wolff

While his is an end long foretold, it will nevertheless receive and, by tabloid rules require, obsessive explanation and a search for both... More »

Disgraced Sanford as Romantic Hero

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Jun 25, 09 | 9:11 PM BY Caroline Miller

Boy, the avalanche of blogs and columns about Mark Sanford’s confession of marital infidelity yesterday have been almost as weird... More »

Why Fox News Is Really Pleasant and Agreeable

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Jun 25, 09 | 9:37 AM BY Michael Wolff

How does Fox News do it? In the face of an incredibly popular Democratic president, a Republican Party and conservative movement in vast... More »

Steve Jobs Lives (or Is Not Dead, Apparently)

7
Jun 24, 09 | 9:09 AM BY Michael Wolff

Well, is he in the building or not? Is he all better? Why won’t they tell us? And does it matter? Now, it very well may be that... More »

Iran: Media Loves a Revolution

16
Jun 23, 09 | 9:29 AM BY Michael Wolff

More than murder, corruption, war, scandal, it’s revolution that the media adores. Revolution’s the ultimate conflict and... More »

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