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John Ensign Puppet Theater

The Countdown Players use their finely crafted puppets to reenact the passion and drama of the dissolution of Senator John Ensign's affair with Cynthia Hampton.

Forbidden love

Keith reads the Sanford e-mails

Put the kids to bed and plug in the headphones: Keith Olbermann reads the love notes between South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford and his Argentine lover.

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Walter Cronkite: An appreciation

Keith Olbermann points out that the legendary titan of newscasting wasn't as dispassionate about the news as he has sometimes been portrayed.

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Grannies play ball in Japan

  July 16: The Osaka Silver Sisters baseball team, whose players average 75 years old, are touring Japan. A scandal forced the team to disband while the girls were in their 20s but they bounced back after a reunion in 2005.

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Obama, get tough!

HBO's Bill Maher expresses his frustration with President Barack Obama looking for compromise and consensus with uncooperative Republicans instead of asserting his will as the popular leader he is.

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