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44

Number of people arrested for possession and/or distribution of marijuana at Saturday’s Annual Freedom Rally on Boston Common.

23.7

Percentage increase in the $96 million Global Financial and Energy Fund managed by Boston Red Sox owner John Henry’s JWH hedge fund group last month — a leap due in part to increased fuel costs in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

"A new journalism order ... dumbed-down, tarted-up"

— Dan Rather, fighting back tears, describing the "atmosphere of fear in newsrooms" during AN address to Fordham University School of Law.

$1.27 billion

Amount embezzled so far from Iraq’s defense procurement budget, effectively "torpedoing plans to end the military’s dependence on the United States," according to World Tribune.

"How about people who are in settings — mosques, for instance — that may be teaching doctrines of hate and terror. Are we monitoring that? Are we wiretapping?

— Governor Mitt Romney in a speech to the conservative think tank Heritage Foundation this week.

Question of the week

Should colleges and universities be more transparent about the foundations that support them?

yes or no

last weeks question:

Do you ever get high in public?

76% spark it 24% narc it

"I guess this means we’ve won the war on terror..."

— Unnamed FBI operative, reacting to news that the bureau’s Washington Field Office has begun recruiting agents for a new anti-obscenity squad to help prosecute the Bush administration’s War on Porn.