This Week in Death brings you: Notes from the game of pool! We've set up the balls in the rack and chalked up the cues. Join us as we go solids versus stripes, and catch you up on all the news you need to know to be a Fats Domino-like death pool competitor. Watch out for the 8-Ball, like death... it's an end. Unlike death, it doesn't give you any points.
That was for you The Death Eaters, I hope you enjoyed. This is for everyone:
Remission Accomplished! Bush Survives "Not Feeling Well in his Stomach"
U.S. President George W. Bush came down with a stomach ailment Friday at the G8 summit in Germany and is resting in his room. "I'm not sure if it's a stomach virus yet or something like that," Dan Bartlett, counsellor to the president told reporters. "He's just not feeling well in his stomach," Although ill, the president did meet for an hour with French President Nicolas Sarkozy, but the meeting took place in Bush's private room.
http://www.canada.com/topics
Is Nicole Richie pregnant? That's the rumor swirling around the super-skinny reality show star, and she doesn't seem in any hurry to deny it.Richie recently underwent a series of tests, including blood and urine screenings, reports Life and Style, which reports that the tests "confirmed she is pregnant."
http://www.nbc11.com/msnbcenter
Johnson has the Magic; Back to Showtime in No Time
Sen. Tim Johnson, D-S.D., absent from the Senate since suffering a brain hemorrhage late last year, is likely to return in September, if not earlier, Majority Leader Harry Reid said Thursday. "He and his family and the doctors are trying to decide whether he will come back in September or July, but he's really doing quite well," Reid said.
http://news.bostonherald.com
Redgrave Avoids Dead Grave, Stays Active
At an age when many people begin to tap the breaks, Vanessa Redgrave, 70, appears to have her foot on the gas. This month, she tackles the triple crown of acting, sashaying from stage to TV to film, all the while making it look so easy.
http://usaweekend.com/07
Bin Laden Been Laid Back? Hardly, says Taliban Commander
The brother of a Taliban commander killed by US forces has claimed that he received a letter of condolence from Osama Bin Laden, who was "alive, active and well". In a television interview today, Haji Mansour Dadullah said the al-Qaida leader had expressed sympathy for the death of his brother, Mullah Dadullah, who was killed by US forces last month. There are mixed views about whether Bin Laden has significant health problems, particularly with his kidneys. Some have claimed he is dependent on dialysis, others say this is not the case and he is in good health.
http://www.buzzle.com/articles
"Bring Out your Dead..."
Clark Fought Segregation, Now Spends Eternity with Blackness of Death
Jim Clark, the former sheriff in Selma, Ala., whose violent, highly public attempts to maintain the status quo there in the Jim Crow era are widely believed to have contributed, however inadvertently, to the success of the voting rights movement, died Monday in Elba, Ala. He was 84 and had been living in a nursing home there.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06
Some Lady Gave it to him. She even Signed her Name on it... Ruuth. Marianne Ruuth.
Marianne Ruuth, an active member of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association for 49 years, died in Los Angeles June 2 following a lengthy Illness. She was 76. Ruuth published novels and celebrity biographies including bios on Stevie Wonder, Eddie Murphy, the Supremes, Nat King Cole, Bill Cosby, Sarah Vaughan and Oprah Winfrey. She also translated Swedish books into English including "Images (My Life In Pictures)" by Ingmar Bergman. She served as president of the HFPA from 1980 to 1982 and oversaw media relations for the organization for 12 years.
http://www.variety.com/article
Abdulle Stricken; Is Straight Up Now. Oh Oh Oh.
Aden Abdulle Osman, Somalia's first president after independence from Italy, died Friday in neighboring Kenya after months of illness, his son said. He was 99. Born in 1908 near the Ethiopian border, in the town of Belet Weyne, Osman was elected president in 1960 after years of leading the Somali Youth League, a nationalist party that struggled for Somalia's independence.
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap
What's the Sound of One Rorty Passing?
Richard Rorty, whose inventive work on philosophy, politics, literary theory and more made him one of the world's most influential contemporary thinkers, died Friday in Palo Alto, Calif. He was 75.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06
And now... our semi-occasional update on our points leaders:
- El Esta Adead - 66 Points (5 deaths)
- The Ex-Parrots - 58.5 Points (5 deaths)
- Yiz-Score - 50 Points (3 deaths)
- Die Hard - 46 Points (3 deaths)
- Av S. is My Hero- 41 Points (3 deaths)
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