BREVITAS

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OUTLYING PRECINCTS

CNN - According to the Hollywood Reporter, stars Leonardo DiCaprio and
George Clooney are in discussions to join forces for a movie loosely
based on the [Howard Dean's] meteoric rise and fall in the 2004
Democratic presidential primaries. The movie is set to be adapted from
an upcoming Broadway play by Beau Willimon. The play, "Farragut North,"
tracks a novice but inspired campaign staffer who works for an
"unorthodox" presidential candidate, according to the newspaper.
Willimon worked on Dean's presidential campaign.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2007/10/13/dicaprio-clooney-to-
team-up-for-dean-movie/


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ARTS & CULTURE

REUTERS - The Frankfurt Book Fair has an indicator to help publishers
gauge public interest in the new offerings presented at the annual
exhibition -- the unofficial "most stolen book" index. . . "The
most-stolen books are usually the most-sold later on," Claudia Hanssen
of the Goldmann Verlag publishing house told Bild am Sonntag newspaper,
which published a list of the 10 most stolen German-language books this
year. . . The German translation of Nobel Peace prizewinner Al Gore's
"An Inconvenient Truth," outlining the dangers of global warming,
featured among the mainly German titles on the list.

http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyid=
2007-10-15T145756Z_01_L1423922_RTRUKOC_0_US-BOOKFAIR-THEFT-1.xml


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WAR DEPARTMENT

AAMER MADHANI, CHICAGO TRIBUNE - The Army announced that it met its
recruiting goals for the past year, but the largest branch of the armed
services showed signs of lowering its standards by enlisting thousands
of new soldiers with criminal records and fewer who have earned
high-school diplomas. . . More than 11 percent of the more than 80,000
Army recruits needed waivers for problems with the law, up from 7.9
percent the previous year and more than double the percentage in 2003,
the year the U.S. invaded Iraq. Maj. Gen. Thomas Bostick, commander of
the U.S. Army Recruiting Command, stressed that about 87 percent of
those allowed in with waivers had misdemeanors for such offenses as
joy-riding or violating curfew. . . But, at the same time, the number of
enlistees with felony convictions and arrests in their pasts has
increased. In 2003, the Army allowed 459 enlistees with felony arrests
and convictions into the service, compared with 1,620 this past year.

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ECOCLIPS

MEMBER OF GORE'S CLIMATE PROJECT ANSWERS BRITISH JUDGE'S CRITICISM OF
FILM
http://scienceblogs.com/islandofdoubt/2007/10/gore_take_the_prize_british_ju.php


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FURTHERMORE. . .

BBC - Last week I flew in a Zeppelin. And from the spot, Friedrichshafen
by Lake Constance in southern Germany, where the very first Zeppelin
ascended back in 1900. What a flight, with meals in the dining room,
cabins to sleep in We just cruised for 40 minutes, but could open the
windows, speak without effort, enjoy watching the world go by 1,000 ft
below, and tell ourselves what it must have been like when far bigger
airships were having their heyday. . . And then stopping above your
destination, watching the sun come up, shouting at the locals and then
disembarking without the used-rag feeling which modern aircraft induce
but refreshed, invigorated, well-fed, well-slept and delighted to be
alive, instead of merely grateful that the long-haul, as they call it,
has finally been concluded. . . On my German flight there were 14 on
board, one pilot, one stewardess, and 12 punters. Yes, it cost 250 euros
per person, and London to Rome would be rather more, but what joy would
be possible, perhaps only once in a lifetime.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/7041946.stm


BBC - An expert chocolate-maker has resigned after he was caught
squashing truffles at a rival manufacturer's shop. Barry Colenso, former
top chocolate-maker at Derbyshire-based Thorntons, damaged the truffles
at Hotel Chocolat in Nottingham. The store manager said staff found
L63.50 worth of truffles damaged. The firm decided to take no further
action. . . Lynn Cunningham from Hotel Chocolat said: "It was quite
extraordinary really. The staff observed Mr Colenso handling a number of
truffles in a way that made them suspicious. When we checked the
truffles later they had been squashed and damaged." She said Hotel
Chocolat was told by Thorntons that Mr Colenso had "handled the truffles
inappropriately. "We just want to move on now," she sai

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/nottinghamshire/7042398.stm

JOSH GOODMAN, GOVERNING - Virginia instituted some pricey new traffic
fines this year: $900 for driving without a license, $1,050 for reckless
driving and $2,250 for a first drunk driving offense. Critics of the
"abuser fees" contend that they will be an unsustainable revenue source,
that they unfairly exempt out-of-state drivers and that they are
excessively punitive.

RAW STORY - More than half of straight Americans back equal treatment
for gays, and seven out of 10 said they have spoken out for the
homosexual community in the face of verbal attacks, a poll said.

http://rawstory.com/news/afp/More_than_half_of_straight_American_10112007.html


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