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“He may be homeless, wandering, carting around three school-aged kids, but Michael Jackson has a new friend: former imprisoned crack addict and Washington, D.C., Mayor Marion Barry. And that’s good in a way, because he is being sued by an old friend, Prince Abdullah of Bahrain.” [FoxNews]

We’ve all been wondering where Cheney would seek exile, and today the answer was delivered: Dubai. MORE »

• Heard on the Hill: Tom DeLay leaves campaign voicemails on behalf of Mark Ellmore. He says that as Majority Leader, he “battled Jim Moran in Congress for 14 years,” and “recently re-registered to vote in Northern California.” [Roll Call]

• Rush & Molloy: George Soros “downright courtly toward the Bushies” at Monday’s party for his book “The Age of Fallibility.” [NYDN]
• Page Six: Spike Lee and Ground Zero memorial architect Michael Arad will talk tonight as part of a campaign against political apathy. The campaign begs to be ignored with the title: “Generation Engage.” [NYP]
• FOX411: FOX411 reports that Michael Jackson hopes to profit from 9/11 charity CD. While you’re at the FOX site, visit their Michael Jackson Celebrity Center. [Fox]

• Heard on the Hill: A freelance photographer has been sneaking into the Senate Photo Studio. . . Rep. Adam Putnam (R-Fla.) catches a 360-pound shark. . . Chuck Norris meets his biggest fan, the Senate elevator operator. [Roll Call]
• Under the Dome: Glenn Close visits the Hill to save wild animals. . . Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.) is reaching out to the Polish-American vote. [The Hill]
• Rush & Molloy: National Enquirer uncovers photos of Rep. Patrick Kennedy dressed up as Michael Jackson. . . Rupert Murdoch on raising funds for Hillary: “It’s not a million-dollar raising. It’s got nothing to do with anything other than her Senate re-election.” [NYDN]
• Inside the Beltway: C-SPAN will add the major cities in congressional districts to their lower-third graphics. [WT]
• Lloyd Grove’s Lowdown: Laurie Dhue wins a free trip to Jordan at a party for Queen Rania. . . Ralph Nader gets a form letter response from Bill Clinton. [NYDN]
• Cindy Adams: What about a Gore-Clinton ticket? [NYP]

Abortion, shmabortion: Dana Milbank ferrets out the truly significant documents from John Roberts’s tour in the Reagan White House: a series of memoes on whether the Gipper should have composed a series of PR missives honoring Michael Jackson for (among other things) a PSA campaign against drunk driving, and donating 400 seats at a 1986 Washington performance to “needy youngsters.” Milbank quotes a typically outraged Roberts memo advising the rejection of the latter request: MORE »

• Larry King befuddled by purpose of Blackberrys. Aren’t we all. [Media Village via TVNewser] MORE »