As the World Turns.

MSNBC has canceled its simulcast of the Imus program. This has just been reported. There are calls for his show to be canceled outright.
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Lee Iacocca just loves our dictator:

Lee Iacocca, author of the original business management bestseller, is giving President Bush an "F" in leadership.

In a book to be released Tuesday, the former Chrysler CEO -- who supported Bush's first campaign in 2000 but backed Sen. John Kerry four years later -- accused Bush of leading the nation to war "on a pack of lies" and lacking the basic components of good leadership.

"I think our current President should visit the real world once in a while," Iacocca writes, according to excerpts from "Where Have All the Leaders Gone" released on the Website of publisher Simon & Schuster.

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Ex-father-in-law of Geraldo Rivera, Kurt Vonnegut, 84, has died. He suffered from brain injuries as a result of a fall several years ago.

Vonnegut was also an obscure writer who was seldom noted in the media.
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