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NJ cops kick in door over bird's cries for help
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) -- Cries for help inside a Trenton, N.J., home turned out to be for the birds. Neighbors called police Wednesday morning after hearing a woman's persistent cry of "Help me! Help me!" coming from a house. Officers arrived and when no one answered the door, they kicked it in to make a rescue....

Man in wheelchair robs Texas 7-Eleven of condoms
DALLAS (AP) -- A robber rolled into a Dallas convenience store came armed with a bat and a knife. He left with a lot of condoms and an energy drink....

Team dumps logo near buttocks after 70-0 loss
BOISE, Idaho (AP) -- The Idaho Vandals football team is dumping the letter "I" from the buttocks region of players' new pants following a season-opening 70-0 loss to the Arizona Wildcats....

NYT > Art & Design

Art Review: Artists, Toe the Party Line
The Asia Society offers a modest but explosive kernel of a show on the history of culture and politics in China.

Art Review | R. Crumb: Mr. Natural Goes to the Museum
?R. Crumb?s Underground ? at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia offers an excellent opportunity to explore the artist?s five decades in comic strips.

Art Review | Kehinde Wiley: A Hot Conceptualist Finds the Secret of Skin
The Studio Museum in Harlem?s show proposes that Kehinde Wiley?s intellectual ambition and Photo Realist chops have allowed his career to get ahead of his art.

washingtonpost.com - White House Watch -- News on President George W Bush and the Bush Administration

A Failure of Leadership
It's official now: President Bush is the Keystone Kop-in-chief, disinterestedly overseeing a bunch of deputies who keep bumping into each other and falling down on the job.

President Who?
The Republican National Convention's brief and grudging acknowledgment of George Bush's presidency on Tuesday was, it turns out, generous compared to what was to follow.

Bush Gets the Bum's Rush
Far from getting a hero's welcome, President Bush didn't even get through the doors of the Republican National Convention hall last night. In an abbreviated address beamed in from 1,000 miles away, Bush offered a stilted endorsement of his former rival -- then faded away, his ghostly image on a giant screen quickly replaced by an homage to Ronald Reagan.

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The Smoking Gun

One Palin Mystery Solved
So why did the former business partner of Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin's husband file an emergency court motion Wednesday to seal all the documents in his divorce case?

Mug Shots Of The Week 9/05/08
As the NFL begins its new season, we kick off our end-of-week mug shot package with a salute to some gridiron heroes.

A Bengal Changes His Stripes
NFL star Chad Johnson joins Dick, Schmuck, Queer, Doody in procuring a new surname

The Dirt On The Dirty
The owner of a popular web site devoted to publishing photos of boozing athletes, inebriated coeds, and other subjects caught with their pants down pleaded guilty himself yesterday to drunk driving.

Caught With His Pants Down
A 29-year-old Florida man was arrested yesterday for wearing baggy pants. Kenneth Smith was busted by Riviera Beach cops for violating a city ordinance governing low-slung trousers (or, legally speaking, "exposure of undergarment in public").