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• Coming soon to a theater near you: Murray & Me, about a 22-year-old Norwegian student named Lykke Stavnef and a bunch of Scottish kids partying with Bill Murray. "Nobody could believe it when I arrived at the party with Bill Murray," Stavnef tells reporters. No one could further believe it when Murray did the dishes.

• Israeli politics, American style: Israeli police have gathered evidence that president Moshe Katsav committed rape and sexual molestation without consent against his female employees. He'd be the first Israeli politician to be charged with such crimes and could face 16 years in prison, Reuters reports, using the following verbiage: "President Moshe Katsav faced mounting pressure on Monday to quit."

• More "how" than "if": A verdict in the Saddam Hussein trial is expected Nov. 5. Prosecutors want him hanged. Saddam prefers a firing squad.

• Radical grandma: An activist lawyer and grandmother of 14, Lynne Stewart, who was convicted in 2005 of providing support to terrorists via her client, Omar Abdel-Rahman, is now facing a 30-year sentence.

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