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MONDAY WP: AIG Discloses Use of Bailout Funds; You Didn’t Get Any, But an Incompetent Did Times of London: Thousands of Girls Mutilated in Britain WSJ: Having Little Interest in Being Opposed, Chavez Sends Navy to Venezuela’s Seaport to Make This Clear AP: Imus Has Prostate Cancer; Rev. Al Sharpton to Protest This in Some…

BB: Lehman Stress Balls Coughed Up By Barclays; Bloomberg Headline, Not Ours IHT: More Comes Out about Gaza killings; Israel Would Deny, But Knows How Much That Stinks in Reverse Fox: Iranian Leaders Reject Prez’s Gesture; Obama Says “Rahm, Fetch My Shinebox” SR: 50 Cent Replaces Forrest Whitaker in Film; Apparently, Every Black Actor Ever…

The NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament starts Saturday, and I have a problem with that. The women’s tournament is easily the third-best collegiate sporting event, surpassed only by football and men’s hoops. While pundits love to debate the viability of the WNBA (and those who wish it would go away try to ignore that attendance was…

Point me t’ward tomorrow We did what we had to do. Won’t forget, can’t regret What I did for love. —“What I Did For Love,” from A Chorus Line A dancer’s life is famously short, brutal and riddled with potential pitfalls: ripped Achilles tendons, torn hamstrings, stress fractures, cruel choreographers. There is drama and angst…

 BBC: Israeli Soldiers Admit Gaza Abuses; Israel Claims, ‘But They’re Not Really People, Ya Know’? CNN: Bin Laden May or May Not Have Come Out with New Mixtape; SoundScan Has Been Weak of Late SJMN: Richard Aoki, Charter Member of Black Panthers, Dies in Berkeley NYT: Heart Failure Strikes Black More Often and at Younger…

Pregnancy can be a wonderful time in a woman’s life. There is the excitement of starting or adding to your family, picking out potential names for the new baby, decorating his or her room and experiencing the physical changes that come with preparing the body for birth. But some of those physical changes are decidedly…

Call the blues passé if you like, but there’s no denying that it is a fitting soundtrack for today’s scary economy. America is singing the blues about foreclosure and job loss, a broken health care system and dwindling retirement funds.  Blues superstar Shemekia Copeland rolls all that anxiety into her latest disc, Never Going Back…

WP: Sisterhood of Powerful Black Women Coming to Fore in DC; Some Wear Sleeves, Others Don’t BBC: Can Catholicism Help Africa? The Buzz Is Gonna Take the Under on That The Job: Yep, We’re in a Recession* J&J: Women’s History Month Blurb on Angela Davis; Yes, It’s Women’s History Month The Hill: AIG Employees—’We Deserve…

The annual onslaught of March Madness, aka the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament, always reminds me of when my alma mater almost made it to the postseason. It was 30 years ago, and in the final game of the season, our school needed to beat our archrival to have hope for a spot in the NIT.…