Life After Death

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Everyone notes that Judith Regan, the "firebrand" editor behind the abortive O.J. Simpson memoir, is now just plain fired.

And everyone mentions Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld's farewell speech, in which he claimed that "weakness" or "the perception of weakness on our part can be provocative." Robert Gates takes over on Monday.

Finally, everyone includes an update on Sen. Tim Johnson, who is in critical but stable condition after suffering a brain hemorrhage on Wednesday.

And if you thought the drinking was out of control ...

The Wall Street Journal has a hard-hitting report on a new development in higher education: Quidditch. Many of the Harry Potter game's signature elements—such as flying around on a broom and the use of fantastic magical powers—are difficult to reproduce in reality. Still, through some combination of imagination and pluck, students at Middlebury and Marlboro colleges make do.

But the collegiate creativity doesn't end there: Students at the University of Texas at Arlington have "become famous for their love of oozeball, or volleyball played in a mud pit, as well as their annual drag races involving beds on wheels." And at Amherst College, "a dozen students recently tried competitive 'boffing,' a form of fencing that grew out of fantasy games that involve fake swordplay."

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