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The Caldecott and the Newberry were awarded yesterday: Mordicai Gerstein, won the 2004 Caldecott Medal yesterday for “The Man Who Walked Between the Towers,” his account of how Philippe Petit, the French aerialist, strode a tightrope between the World Trade Center towers in 1974. The award, announced at the American …

The actor-monologist-author was reported missing by his wife Sunday night: The disappearance of Mr. Gray was of particular concern to the authorities. Mr. Gray, 62, had a history of depression, was taking medication, the police said, and had attempted suicide in 2002. ….Mr. Gray’s older brother, Rockwell Gray, an English …

Pete Rose bet on baseball! And now, 15 years later he is sorry. Why should anyone care? I grew up discussing this very controversy with my dad, a sports fanatic. It was one of the few things we could really get deep about and I loved to hear his wise …

Very fine, insightful column by Bill Livingston today in the Cleveland Plain Dealer. He has espied a pattern most others have missed regarding the last decade of baseball: Last season was the first since the strike-shortened 1994 season that no one hit more than 50 home runs. It also marked …

Someone is broadcasting on the same frequency as the wireless intercom at a Burger King in Troy, Michigan: The person broke into the Troy restaurant’s drive-in order system several times last week – most recently on Thursday, when he told customers they were too fat to eat a Whopper. Other …

Snake thief bitten in “groin area” – imagine the possibilities: The tiger python snakes were not poisonous, and the 20-year-old man, whom police declined to identify, did not seek medical treatment for the bite to his groin area. Police said the man took the snakes last week, slipping them into …

As difficult as it may be, to assess the success of some policies you have to look at the biggest picture available. Such is free trade and in particular NAFTA: When President Bush and Mexican President Vicente Fox sit down together today at the Summit of the Americas in Monterrey, …

This story reminds me of this post by our Crushkill. How many of these knee jerk MJ supporters have really looked into the series of allegations against him? Do they really ALL stem from the fact that Michael is just “different” and “misunderstood”? How do YOU know he’s just different …

The RIAA has an investigative force seeking out CD pirates on the mean streets of the nation: Though no guns were brandished, the bust from a distance looked like classic LAPD, DEA or FBI work, right down to the black “raid” vests the unit members wore. The fact that their …

We have been following he saga of Robert Kilroy-Silk, former MP and morning talk show host on the BBC, who has been criticized and suspended from his show for writing a newspaper editorial called “We Owe the Arabs Nothing.” After expressing “regret” over the matter, he is now defending himself: …