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Christie Brinkley-Peter Cook divorce settlement reached: Christie Brinkley and Peter Cook have settled their divorce dispute - he gets $2.1 million and she gets custody of the kids and all the real estate. The details were announced after the couple spent a long night hashing out an an agreement.
Jesse Jackson wants to cut Obama's WHAT off?: The Rev. Jesse Jackson apologized Wednesday for "crude and hurtful" remarks he made about Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama after an interview with a Fox News correspondent. An open microphone picked up Jackson whispering, "See, Barack's been talking down to black people ... I want to cut his nuts off." He didn't realize the microphone was on. "It was very private," Jackson said, adding that if "any hurt or harm has been caused to his campaign, I apologize." An Obama campaign spokesman said that the senator from Illinois "of course accepts Rev. Jackson's apology."
Yearbook reprinted after racial prank: A California high school will order reprints of a yearbook page that attributed fake names to members of the Black Student Union and other classmates, an incident that sparked anger and debate in the Charter Oak High School community and beyond. The decision followed weeks of investigation into how names such as "Tay Tay Shaniqua," "Crisphy Nanos" and "Laquan White" were wrongly attributed to BSU members in a yearbook photo.
Does new Wii game promote drinking? A game by Nintendo Wii will be available later this month called "Frat Party Games: Beer Pong" which simulates the real drinking game, but it's been approved for kids as young as 13. Beer pong is a popular game played by college students where cups filled with beer are put on opposite sides of a table and each team throws a ping pong ball into a cup. If the ball lands in the cup, the opposing team drinks that beer. The Wii game is stirring controversy among parents who feel it will encourage teen drinking.
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