• If I spend it: Five days after being told he can keep his $1 million dollar book advance, O.J. Simpson has now been told that he can't spend it.

• No jet for you: Nancy Pelosi doesn't want just any dumpy jet to fly around in. She has requested a military 757, sending GOPers into a tailspin.

• And he should be 20: A 50-year-old University of Massachusetts student is suing the school over his grade in a philosophy course, insisting that the C he got should have been an A-minus.

• iPods, a bigger danger to pedestrians than cabs: The state legislature is banning the use of cell phones and iPods while crossing the street in New York. The penalty for violation is death by yellow cab.

• Schadenfreude TV: The judge in the Phil Spector case is leaning toward allowing the trial to be televised.