Gossip Roundup: Rice’s Banned Reading

• Names & Faces: Bono says he feels “exploited” by the use of his photo in campaign literature for Italy’s Silvio Berlusconi. [WP]
• Washington Whispers: Playboy and Penthouse are banned from State Department newsstands at the request of Condoleezza Rice… Josh Bolten recently cut work to watch a few Washington Nationals games… Fidel Castro could die within the next few years, American officials contend… Frank Luntz has a favorable view of Mark Warner… Rep. Nancy Pelosi misses the chocolate she gave up for lent. [USN&WR]
• Page Six: Site indicates Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) may have kept a “love nest” with his former chief of staff… Jenna once woke Bush up and made him call her then-boyfriend Blake Gottesman after they fought. [NYP]
• Lloyd Groves’s Lowdown: Gore blames Bush for failures surrounding Katrina and 9/11 in the “green issue” of Vanity Fair. [NYDN]
• The Scoop: Susan Sarandon wants national elections to be monitored by a third party: “The last one was an embarrassment. Everybody knew there was fraud, but nothing was done about it.” [MSNBC]

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