Clay Aiken's Cheap Baby; Erin Brockovich Takes New York
Oct. 27 2008, Published 7:07 a.m. ET
What you Gentiles who are at work need to know this morning:
Business
• Keep your money in your mattress. George Bush is going to go on the TV again this morning to beg for his bailout. European banks are failing left and right. Nonprofits and foundations are going to take a huge hit this year, with the economy now undermining the terrifying balancing act that was the favored "public-private partnership" (ie, rich people pay to keep city services running) structure of the past few years.
- Tragic One Direction Singer Liam Payne Dead Aged 31 After Horror Hotel Balcony Plunge: Celeb Tributes Pour In as Images Emerge of Smashed Up Hotel Room Strewn With White Powder and 'Drugs Foil'
- Family of Menendez Brothers Beg for Convicted Killers' Freedom in Press Conference Three Decades After Brutal Murders: 'They Were Failed By Their Parents!'
- BREAKING: Jailed 'Sex Beast' Sean 'Diddy' Combs Hit With Another Wave of Horrific Lawsuits — Rapper Accused of Drugging, Raping, Sodomizing and Threatening to Murder Multiple New Victims
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Law
• Hey, the other day the Second Circuit upheld the fingerprinting and registration of Muslim men in the United States! Oh, yay America.
• At last, a special prosecutor has been appointed to investigate the firing of U.S. Attorneys under Alberto Gonzalez for "partisan and political" reasons.
• Erin Brockovich is working in New York City now, for Weitz & Luxenberg, which handles lots of asbestos cases.