An interesting legal ruling, with a special guest appearance by former Governor Mario Cuomo. Manhattan Judge Renee Roth ruled that two children, conceived by in vitro fertilization using sperm from their father after his death, were eligible for a share of their paternal grandfather's estate. The Post reported that a man, only identified as James B., saved some of his sperm when he was diagnosed with Hodgkins' lymphoma. He died in 2001, and his widow......

A jury has been selected in the trial of Peter Braustein, the journalist suspected of kidnapping and sexually assaulting over many hours a former colleague. Braunstein was the subject of a month long manhunt that took investigators from NYC to Memphis, where he was captured at the University of Memphis. According to the NY Post, the jury is made up of seven men and five women. Nine have post-graduate degrees; there's a female lawyer, female......

If the juicy excerpts and stories about James B. Stewart's Disney expose book, Disney War, weren't enough, today's NY Times article about seals the deal. This book must be made into a movie:The book is full of examples in which [Disney chairman and CEO Michael] Eisner turned against those he was close to before deeming them disloyal or too ambitious... In one such case, when Mr. Eisner was head of Paramount Pictures in the early......