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Bellevue Toddler Still Missing: His mother left him alone in her car for an hour while she went searching for gas on Sunday. There’s still no sign of him.

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Not-So-Private Conversation: French President Sarkozy was overheard calling Israeli PM Netanyahu a “liar” in a private conversation with Obama. Obama’s reply: “You may be sick of him, but me, I have to deal with him every day.”

Bunga Bunga? Italian PM Berlusconi lost the majority of Parliament and the head of the opposition party has asked him to resign.

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  2. Officials also said Monday that no gas can was found near the car despite the mother’s account that she went to get gas after the car ran out of fuel. The car also started for police.

    Oh boy. Here we go…

  3. God, if Berlusconi goes, Europe might just muddle through this. It would be nice to see him hanging by his heels from a gibbet like Mussolini, but I’ll settle for a simple resignation. Assuming it’s not one of those resignations where he never actually leaves.

  11. I can’t summon any snark about the missing child case. From what I’ve read about the parents so far, they sound like candidates for Dan’s ECDAMAF series. When he was 3 months old they left him in their Escalade in 27-degree weather to go shopping! Heartbreaking.

  12. I came here to leave the exact comment @11 did, especially the Every Child series. I wonder if they ever completed the court-ordered parenting classes.

  15. This made me think of you, Fnarf.

    Breaking News Alert
    The New York Times
    Tuesday, November 8, 2011 — 12:10 PM EST
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    Penn State Said to Be Planning Paterno’s Exit

    Joe Paterno’s tenure as coach of the Penn State football team will soon be over, perhaps within days or weeks, in the wake of a sex-abuse scandal that has implicated university officials, according to two people briefed on conversations among the university’s top officials.

    The board of trustees has yet to determine the precise timing of Paterno’s exit, but it is clear that the man who has more victories than any other coach at college football’s top level and who made Penn State a prestigious brand will not survive to coach another season. Discussions about how to manage his departure have begun, according to the two people.

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  16. Paterno should have been put out to pasture at least a decade ago. He hasn’t “coached” the team in years. However, i can understand the need to keep him as a figurehead. Unfortunately that reverence was taken too far. What makes the whole situation as sad as it is horrific is that his program was supposed to be the “clean” one, run the way college football should be. Y’know, “scholar-athletes”, high graduation rates, the whole bit. Now we know it’s as dirty as any other major program. Not that PSU as an institution has been exemplary lately; look at the recent controversy over fracking and the way the school shunted research that highlighted negative environmental effects towards that which accentuates the economic “benefits”, which naturally would only be realized by a select few, including the energy companies that are the main benefactors of their geology school.

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