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Virginia Tech Massacre: Just unbelievably horrible news out of Blacksburg, Virginia, yesterday. We were working on the story all night at work and it was shocking how slow the details are in coming. One student described the gunman as "just a normal looking kid, Asian, but he had on a Boy Scout type outfit. He wore a tan button-up vest and this black vest -- maybe it was for ammo or something." A guy in a Boy Scout outfit wandering around around a sprawling college campus shooting people at random? This whole thing sounds like a bad horror movie. I hope the police can sort this out soon so the victims' families can get some answers. My thoughts are with all of those affected. (NYT)

Who's Sari Now? Angry crowds in several Indian cities burned effigies of Richard Gere on Monday after he swept a popular Bollywood actress into his arms and kissed her several times during an AIDS-awareness event. Photographs of the 57-year-old actor embracing Shilpa Shetty and kissing her on the cheek at an HIV/AIDS awareness event in New Delhi were splashed across Monday's front pages in India, a country where sex and public displays of affection are largely taboo but leaving your wife back home to have sex with eunuchs at the annual festival at Koovagama is considered customary by some heterosexual men. (AP)

American Idiots: Confirming what we've long known to be Americans' highest priority, presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton was asked on a campaign stop what she thought of undertalented American Idol contestant Sanjaya Malakar. (AP)

Meter Running Into the Sunset: That wacky New York couple who hailed a taxi for their 2,500-mile move to Sedona, Arizona, arrived with their two cats at their destination on Monday. I feel sorry for the cabbie though. You know how stingy those retirees are with the tips. (AP)

Parenting Skillis: Call it a reward, or just "bribery." Whichever it is, many parents today readily admit to buying off their children, who get goodies for anything from behaving in a restaurant to sleeping all night in their own beds. I remember when I was a kid my mom used to bribe me all the time. She'd tell me she wouldn't beat me senseless if I did what she said. It always worked. (AP)

Spider-men: James Franco was looking good at the Tokyo premiere of "Spiderman 3," but did you know Thomas Haden Church (Lowell on "Wings") is in it too? (AP)

Broken Promises: Students who participated in sexual-abstinence programs were just as likely to have sex a few years later as those who did not, according to a long-awaited study mandated by Congress. Also, those who attended one of the four abstinence classes reviewed reported having similar numbers of sexual partners as those who did not attend the classes, and they first had sex at about the same age as their control-group counterparts: 14 years and nine months. The federal government now spends about $176 million annually on abstinence-until-marriage education. Critics have repeatedly said they don't believe the programs are working, and the study will give them reinforcement. (AP)