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Tehran's police chief, Reza Zarei, has been arrested after he was found nude in a local brothel with six naked prostitutes, according to report on the Iranian Farda News. Farda News is a website said to be close to the mayor of Tehran and former chief of the police forces, Mohammed Bagher Qalibaf. Following the raid, Zarei stepped down from his post as police chief. The news of his arrest however was not reported by any official Iranian news agency. According to a popular Iranian website Gooya, the order to raid the brothel was given directly by Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi...

New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer has been struggling to counter the public perception that he has a "temperament" problem. If his recent treatment of H&R Block is anything to go by, he needs a few more anger management sessions. Mr. Spitzer blew a gasket last Friday after Block CEO Mark Ernst had the temerity to deny, in an op-ed in this newspaper, the AG's charges that his company had fraudulently sold retirement savings plans. His Lord High Executioner threatened Block with "vast fines" for refusing to roll over. And he further warned that he might now find it more...