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- From the Gothamist Newsmap: A suspicious package at 51st & Park in Manhattan, a DOA floater in the Bronx and an escaped EDP at 59th St in Manhattan.
- Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke on Lehman Brothers: "If we lent the money to Lehman … we would have saddled the taxpayers with tens of billions of dollars in losses."
- Allen Ginsberg's fourth floor walk-up in the East Village has been rented.
- The Internet, having successfully revived Betty White's career, has taken up a new cause: convincing Stephen Colbert to hold a "Restoring Truthiness" rally at the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
- A model who had his ear reattached (after it was bitten off by a drag queen) lost his ear again (the reattachment didn't take!).
- Hundreds of Bernie Madoff's victims are challenging the latest invoice from his bankruptcy trustee, who is seeking more than $34 million for 120 days of work.
- NJ high school students who can't do simple math equations are nevertheless passing calculus.
- A grandmother allegedly assaulted her granddaughter with a knife over a jigsaw puzzle argument.
- Reformed graffiti artists show off their work.
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