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Quoted: WASHINGTON -- Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich will not run for president in 2008 after determining he could not legally explore a bid and remain as head of his tax-exempt political organization, a spokesman said Saturday.

Quoted: ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — In a stone-throwing melee in the heart of Pakistan's capital, riot police Saturday fired tear gas and beat lawyers and human-rights activists protesting President Pervez Musharraf's plans to have himself reelected while serving as chief of the military.

Quoted: Long View Drive in southern San Diego County is bad news for anyone sniffing around for signs that the housing market downturn is about over.

Quoted: As the mortgage industry swooned in late 2006 and 2007, Countrywide Financial Corp. Chief Executive Angelo Mozilo cashed in stock options valued at $138 million -- vastly expanding his wealth even as his shareholders watched their stock shrink in value.

Quoted: Los Angeles city prosecutors charged actor Kiefer Sutherland today with two misdemeanor drunk driving counts and accused him of violating the terms of his probation in a 2004 DUI, a move that could land the "24" star in jail for up to 18 months.

Quoted: RIDLEY SCOTT was living in London in 1980 but looking for a leading man for his first Hollywood movie. The script was a strange one -- it was a surreal tale adapted from a 1968 novel about murderous artificial people in futuristic Los Angeles -- and Scott didn't have a certain title since he couldn't use the more-than-a-mouthful name of the book: "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" Scott did have a star in mind, though: He had seen "Star Wars" and decided that he wanted his star to be the actor who had played that charming scoundrel Han Solo.