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Apr 02 2008 12:00am EDT

Late Breaks: What a Difference Five Years Makes

-The Peabody Awards are out. Bill O'Reilly still hasn't won one, whatever he says. But Stephen Colbert has. [PR Newswire]

-Maxim founder Felix Dennis confessed to killing a man, but later decided he was just kidding, or drunk, or both. [Times of London]

-Those buyout packets at the Washington Post that I told you were going out this week came printed on pink paper, making some recipients think they'd been pink-slipped. April Fools! [WCP]

-Michael Wolff says Tina Brown should stay out of this news-aggregation business until she learns how to check her email. And we all know how adept Wolff is with email. [Gawker]

-Britney Spears sure does look good on the cover of OK -- possibly because the photo was taken in 2003, and not after her recent diet, as you're supposed to think. [Huffpo]. □

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