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- Activist groups are protesting the Warick hotel's decision to once again host Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad while he's in the city to speak at the United Nations.
- An Eddie Murphey/Shawn Ryan adaptation of Beverly Hills Cop may be coming to CBS.
- Science proves that you are genetically predisposed to wasting time on the internet.
- Everybody freak out: Apple is hinting that the iPhone 5 may come out next week.
- Katie Couric is worried that Kate Middleton is too thin.
- Happy Birthday, Bey! The singer turns 31 today.
- McDonalds will open its first-ever vegetarian restaurant in northern India.
- The bass line from The Who’s “Won’t Get Fooled Again” is BOSS AS HELL (it really kicks in around the 1 minute mark).
- WTF: Man fakes his own death in a car crash in elaborate marriage proposal. Spoiler alert: she actually said yes!
- Presented without comment: Morgan Freeman in a photobooth.
- The Post gets a hold of the NYPD's list of neighborhood "gangs and the results are bizarre: would you join the Get Touched Boys? Or No Days Off?
- And finally, a parrot goes for a ride on a tennis ball:
Published Sep 4, 2012
Modified Sep 4, 2012
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