"Over in Colombia, government investigators discovered fake antihistamine pills that were nothing more than 'dyed cement.'
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Le funky PM is bowing out. Canada's Prime Minister Jean Chretien has made way for his sucessor in the ruling Liberal Party, Paul Martin.
Nevermind his politics, I enjoyed the man. Who else, other than Clinton, would have dodged his security detail and gone off on an across the rooftop jaunt with his grandson, in a foreign country no less?

"My grandson said, 'Grandpapa, let's escape'. So we managed to escape ... and it was quite a thrill. You know, we jumped from one roof to the other roof to a third roof.

"When we arrived there [at the edge of the third roof], there was a bunch of carabinieri cars there and my grandson wanted to slide along the pipe.

"[But] these guys shoot and ask questions after that, so we went back and we found another way and we managed to escape for about an hour."
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Well who wouldn't? Given who the guy's boss I'm suprised he doesn't need meds just to steel himself before going into work everyday.