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# HAPPY SUMMER SOLSTICE:
:::: Photos at Stonehenge::

# Comes word that... UK newspaper columnist and Media darling Julie Burchill is withdrawing from journalism and plans to explore other projects. [tfp]

# "New York's legendary Chelsea Hotel, for nearly a century the famously seedy haunt of artists and musicians, some of whom chose to live there, is changing management... [it's] to be run by an outside team of 'boutique hotel' managers."

# ANTI-RUSHDIE: Several hundred Muslims held a rally outside Regents Park Mosque in London over Salman Rushdie's new knighthood. [dmail]

# A new organisation, representing former Muslims who fear for their lives because they have renounced their faith, is to be launched at Westminster today... In Islam, apostasy is called ridda which means turning back. [tgraph]

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