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Robert E. Bush, an 18-year-old Navy medical corpsman during the Battle of Okinawa who was the youngest sailor to receive the Medal of Honor during World War II, died Nov. 8 at an assisted-living facility in Tumwater, Wash., near Olympia. He was 79 and had kidney cancer.

You know, I get annoyed by people chatting away loudly on cellphones. But it has to take the ticket to be robbed in a bank by someone jabbering away on a cellphone. I mean seriously, have some respect – you’re robbing someone/something! At least concentrate.

As Little Green Footballs mentions, the French riots are still going on, but strangely the news coverage seems to have been shut off, even though 500 cars were burned last night. I suppose that once you can’t cap the previous nights’ car burning, it ceases to become news fodder?

Brad DeLong writes: Tyler Cowen recommends Paul Krugman on the Medicare Drug Benefit…

In South Korea, a baby stroller with the baby in it was caught in a subway train door, along with the mothers coat.

The 18-year-old high school student elected mayor of Hillsdale, Michigan this week saw his lead melt to only two votes Thursday after the county finished its official count. Hillsdale County election officials declared Thursday that Michael Sessions, who waged a …

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made a surprise visit to Iraq today and urged the war-battered country’s fractious communities to bridge their differences before next month’s general elections.

Rice, kicking off a Middle East swing, flew in from Bahrain …