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A few months ago, a day before one of the occasional marches the Capital sees demanding an end to the Iraq War, I began the descent into the Metro stop near my office, looked up, and saw a number of representatives of Code Pink standing at the railing overlooking the escalator. Or rather, I heard them first. They were screaming at the parade of commuters, at the top of their lungs and in a tone somewhere between simple frustration and righteous anger, "End the war!!!" Well, I thought, that ought to take care of things. Good work, hippies! I kid...

Looks like critics and the general public aren't the only ones who get sick when they listen to Paris Hilton sing. MSNBC reports that Hilton herself was physically ill while performing one of her songs on stage in Las Vegas after Jay Z performed. "Paris, who had been swilling straight vodka from [a] Grey Goose bottle for hours, gets up on stage, has the people in charge throw her 'record' on the house stereo for her to lip sync two of her songs. She gets up on the stage, pukes, leaves. . . I find the music business charming," wrote...

My personal War on Terror: Me vs Dad - Part I There is a force more vicious than the imagined terrorist threat from the Middle East, yes it is a scourge more powerful than the hordes of radical Christians blowing up abortion clinics around the globe. This force is my dad, CFO of a major Pharmaceutical Company. Dad and I have been warring for nearly two decades now, when I first enrolled in JFK Junior High School in my beloved Brookline. I was enrolled a little more than a month when the unspeakable evil that was Reagan invaded the poor...

<p>San Francisco -- The anti-war demonstrations in San Francisco have proved to be a powerful magnet, drawing law-breaking protesters from as far south as Mexico, as far north as Washington state and as far east as Connecticut -- but only a minority from the city itself, arrest records show.</p>