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  • Okay, we thought New Mexico guv Bill Richardson had already announced his campaign for Presidency, but guess not. In GOP news, Giuliani isn't polling well in Iowa; Mitt Romney is beating him and McCain in the polls up there.
  • Al Qaeda militants are taking on the military at a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon. 71 people have been killed so far.
  • European developers are not amused with soon-to-be-former World Bank Prez Wolfowitz.
  • Former US Ambassador to Saudi Arabia James Oberwetter made a vocal gaffe at the UT School of Communications graduation this weekend.
  • If you were getting your pot from a guy on Ave. F in the Hyde Park area, we hate to be the bearer of bad news. Police discovered 50 pounds of pot in his house.
  • Firebrand Michael Moore's new film on the state of America's health care system opened at Cannes this weekend.

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