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Nicaraguan supporters of Daniel Ortega were celebrating in Managua on Monday night. Although the final tally is not yet in, it seems that the Sandinista leader has enough of a lead to avoid a run-off. With 60 percent of the ballots tabulated, he has about 38 percent of the vote.

When I was growing up in Brooklyn, the dog days of summer were marked by the delighted squeals of children, and sometimes their parents, cooling off under the shooting geysers of city water freed from neighborhood fire hydrants. Someone had managed to dismantle city property, sending streams of public water shooting skyward before falling back to the steamy streets to soak and refresh the sweltering kids. It wasn'tlegal, of course - but, boy, was it fun! The fire, police and water departments never pursued the offenders. Instead, city workers, with good humor, reassembled the fire plugs, watched the wasted water flow down the streets and then into the storm drains. There was no angst over wasted water at that time and in that place.

Gaiman pulled out a piece of paper and said that he was told to announce that this would be the "biggest 3-D release ever in the world." He apologized for only having one reel--and just the second one at that--to show but he said "that's all that exists."

Evo Morales rose to power vowing to create a more equitable society. He's won the hearts of Bolivia's poor with policies aimed at raising living standards, and nationalized the hydrocarbon industry with a moderate approach that relies on negotiation, rather than confiscation.

Ash Brannon and Chris Buck come from animating Disney features. But for their first directing gig together they have gone with Sony Pictures Animation to deliver the penguin comedy

The Greyboy Allstars have been bringing funk and jazz to San Diego's music scene since the early 1990's. The band is playing two nights at the Belly Up Tavern this weekend and have been in the recording studio working on a new album. We'll talk to two founding members of the band, Karl Denson and Chris Stillwell.

Robert Siegel talks with Matthew Parris, columnist for the Times of London and former conservative member of Parliament, about the woes of British Prime Minister Tony Blair.

When a brutal regime ends, those who survive are often left with feelings of guilt, anger and confusion. With the fall of Saddam Hussein, a group of Iraqi-born activists have created the Iraq Memory Foundation to help Iraqis come to terms with their past.

The central character in Definitely, Maybe, Will Hayes, knows a little something about advertising himself. He works at an ad agency and is currently trying to figure out how to pitch the latest cereal to kids. He’s also trying to figure out how he got stuck in this job when he began his career trajectory as an idealistic volunteer for Bill Clinton's presidential campaign in 1992. He also can’t quite figure out how his marriage went sour. Forcing him to put all this into perspective is his precocious (is there any other kind of kid in Hollywood these days?) eleven-year-old daughter Maya.