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Early Addition: The World's Largest Water-Balloon Fight
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Ben Yakas
Published Sep 8, 2011
Modified Sep 8, 2011
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Published Sep 8, 2011
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- Mayor of 9/11 Town Rudy Giuliani forgot about the 9/11 Memorial Gala Fundraiser.
- A "peace group" is trying to ban the Pledge of Allegiance from Boston-area schools, calling the oath reminiscent of "some horrific totalitarian regimes."
- The daughter of a murderous dictator of Uzbekistan will have a show during Fashion Week at Lincoln Center.
- A gold medal-winning Olympic gymnast was caught assaulting a cab driver on video in Ohio.
- Elizabeth Taylor owned $30 million worth of diamonds.
- We knew McDonald's can be bad for you, but not this bad: ten people were hospitalized because of strange fumes at a Georgia McDonalds.
- The perfume pilfering cops have been sentenced to jail time.
- Somebody hit Reese Witherspoon while she was out jogging. No word yet whether they did it with a spoon.
- MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough wrote a terrible, terrible song about 9/11.
- And finally, check out video of the world's largest water-balloon fight!
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