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Countdown’s Top Five

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1. The headlines over "," Mel Gibson, and possibly Hollywood has ever seen.
2. The White House keeping information about the president`s daily brief a secret from The 9/11 Commission, so the commissioners of reporter Bob Woodward.

• Speaking of accountability, Richard Perle, an adviser to the Pentagon who had been one of the chief ideological cheerleaders for the war, now says that, "

• Martha Stewart's testifying Sam Waksal was dumping his ImClone stock before she sold hers. ()

• Same topic, different details. The Enron gang is

• The growing at the University of Colorado.
  

Today’s Top Three Newsmakers

1. , Minister of Works and Transport in the nation of Botswana has asked people to kill themselves by jumping from trees instead of in front of trains.
2. in Moscow who got a sensitive part of his body caught in a padlock.
3. . No, not that A-Rod.

Let's Play Oddball!

1. 27.1 million where the 101 meets the 405

• One way to clear up traffic jams,

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Keeping Tabs

1. Michael Jackson
2. A lesson tonight from the actor Ethan Hawke on for having apparently cheated on your wife.

• Uma is