Sidelights.

In an effort to deglamorize fur, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is providing fur coats to the poor. A group spokeshuman stated that only the destitute should wear furs.... New York City is considering housing the homeless on decommissioned luxury cruise ships. * Berkeley mayor Tom Bates stole and trashed about 1,000 copies of the college paper that endorsed his opponent.... As a time-saving measure, Mayor Jay Lee of Virgin, Utah charges residents $25 to speak up at zoning and planning meetings. * A seven-year-old Minneapolis boy stole two cars in 11 days. Children under the age of ten cannot be charged with a crime in Minnesota. * Krowbar, the U.S. Customs Service's most efficient drug-sniffing dog, retired after seven years of working the U.S.-Mexico border. During his career he uncovered more than 30 tons of narcotics valued at over $300 million. At one point a Mexican drug cartel placed a $50,000 contract on the dog. * Sixty-four percent of American men would kill Osama bin Laden personally given the chance, according to a Fox News poll. Only 29 percent of American women would.

Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, leader of the Islamist terror group Hezbollah, is urging a global suicide bombing campaign: "Martyrdom operations--suicide bombings--should be exported outside Palestine ... I encourage Palestinians to take suicide bombings worldwide. Don't be shy about it." * Former South African president Nelson Mandela apparently believes U.S. plans to remove Saddam Hussein from power are racist: "What we know is that Israel has weapons of mass destruction.... Why should there be one standard for one country, especially because it is black, and another one for another country, Israel, that is white?" Iraqis, of course, are not considered black. * Around two thirds of Germans are unhappy with the euro, according to a European Commission poll. Germans blame the euro for rising prices and the bad economy.... The German capital is ...