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GOOD WEEK FOR: TONY DOW, who played Wally Cleaver on _Leave It to Beaver,_ after one of his abstract sculptures went on display at the Louvre. “I’m really proud of _Leave It to Beaver,_” the


63-year-old Dow said, “but I don’t think they know anything about that at the Louvre.” HISTORIC ELECTIONS, after Silverton, Ore., elected Stu Rasmussen, the nation’s first transgender


mayor. Rasmussen, 60, now wears women’s clothes and has breast implants. By not hiding his cross-dressing from the public, he said, “I’ve blackmail-proofed myself.” SUBSCRIBE TO THE WEEK


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Week delivered directly to your inbox. MYOPIA, after the Terrell, Texas, _Tribune_ did not even mention in its Nov. 5 edition that Barack Obama had won the presidential election because it


was not local news. “We covered the local commissioner’s race,” said _Tribune_ editor Bill Jordan. “We thought that was more important.” BAD WEEK FOR: DOING UNTO OTHERS, after a feud between


Armenian and Greek Orthodox monks at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem erupted into a punching and kicking brawl. NEW JERSEY COUNCILMAN STEVEN LIPSKI, who was arrested at a


Grateful Dead tribute concert for urinating off the balcony onto the crowd below. The 44-year-old politician said that he had “resolved not to touch alcohol again.” A free daily email with


the biggest news stories of the day – and the best features from TheWeek.com FLORIDA, after entomologist Phil Koehler discovered that the Madagascar hissing cockroach, which grows to 5


inches long, is being sold as reptile food on the Internet. Koehler said that it is only a matter of time before some roaches escape and multiply in Florida’s climate. “This is not good news


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