Election 2008: Ron Paul in the news

MOVIE REVIEW

'Bruno'

"Bruno" Sacha Baron Cohen's shock-and-ach du lieber follow-up to "Borat," is a miss-or-hit mockumentary aimed at turning another of his "Da Ali G Show" guises into a pop-cultural phenomenon.

Sacha Baron Cohen's alter egos

'Da Ali G Show" - The satirical talk show that begot both Borat and Brüno introduced the Cambridge-educated Cohen to the public as a hip-hop / NBA-inspired, Caribbean-inflected ignoramus who interviewed / sandbagged an array of prominent world figures - from former UN secretary-general "Boutros Boutros Boutros-Ghali" to "boss man of ABC News" Sam Donaldson. Ali G regularly misidentified his guests - Buzz Aldrin was "Buzz Lightyear"; Gore Vidal was "Vidal Sassoon" - and the dialogue was excruciating: During a panel with religious experts, Ali G asked a Catholic priest, "Ain't it hypocriticalist that so many nuns also work part-time as strippers?" and claimed to have the video to prove it. Whether the religious episode was as funny as the one in which Borat got patrons of a country bar to sing along to an "old Kazakh folk tune" - that bashed Jews - is open to question.

Sacha Baron Cohen's 'Bruno': Equal opportunity offender

Among the narrowly focused special-interest groups poised to get lathered up over "Bruno" - comic-critic Sacha Baron Cohen's new exercise in carefully calibrated bad taste - are Jews. Blacks. Hunters. Wrestling fans. The military. Austrians. Hamas. Ron Paul. People who watch daytime talk shows. People born south of New Jersey.

House takes tough stand against Iran for crackdown

Lawmakers in Congress voted Friday to condemn the Iranian government's crackdown on opposition protesters as Republicans seek to ramp up pressure on the Obama administration to take a stronger stand.

School news: Massapequa students go to preserve

More than 650 students at McKenna Elementary School in Massapequa are boosting their knowledge of environmental science by using the Massapequa Park Preserve as their open-air classroom through the Brookhaven National Laboratory's Open Space Stewardship program. McKenna is the sole Nassau County school to participate in the program, school officials said.

Alternative leaders offer views on financial bailout

Shock and awe over the nation's financial crisis - and the enormous taxpayer bailout of failing ventures - are giving alternative candidates and leaders an opportunity to show off differences from major-party figures, and to boast of their prescience.

Plan to treat toxic plume raises concern

It's the start of a new year at St. Patrick's School in Bay Shore, where a freshly paved schoolyard also marks a long-awaited and controversial front in a bid to treat a mile-long toxic plume.

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WORLD & NATION: AT HOME

A woman accused of slicing open a pregnant woman's belly and taking her baby was obsessed with getting an infant and even had hallucinations of hearing babies cry after a February 1990 miscarriage, according to court records. A few months later, Andrea Curry-Demus stabbed one woman in an apparent plot to steal her newborn; the next day, she kidnapped another baby from a hospital. Curry-Demus, 38, of Wilkinsburg, Pa., was charged Sunday with homicide, kidnapping and related offenses in the death of Kia Johnson, 18. Johnson's decomposing body, with her wrists and ankles bound by duct tape and layers of tape and plastic covering much of her head, was found Friday in Curry-Demus' apartment. A day earlier Curry-Demus had taken the baby to a hospital, claiming first that she was the mother and later that she paid for the child. Authorities say the two women met at the Allegheny County jail on July 15 while visiting different inmates.

Barack Obama's election: A moment for the history books

For millions of Americans, 11:01 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, Tuesday, Nov. 4, marked a moment of unbridled joy and disbelief that American history had brought the nation to this night. Barack Obama became the first black candidate elected to the nation's highest office.

Ron Paul revolution: It has just begun to fight

MANCHESTER, N.H. — Cheese pizza powers the Ron Paul revolution.

THE CONTENDERS: RON PAUL

Paul: A seller of ideas

No more Department of Education. No more Federal Reserve Bank. No more Medicare or Medicaid. No more membership in the United Nations or NATO. No more federal drug laws. And, no more U.S. troops in Iraq -- or anywhere else on foreign soil.