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According to the jacket flap of his latest blockbuster thriller, Step On a Crack (Little, Brown, 400 pages, $27), James Patterson is "one of the best-known and best-selling writers of all time." Quite a boast -- and it might even be true.

Awards-show vets Helen Mirren and Nicole Kidman showed up the starlets on the Oscars red carpet, while Jennifer Hudson missed the mark in a gold, short-sleeve jacket.

Corvallis police are asking for help in identifying a man who robbed the Dari-Mart at Fourth Street and Southwest Western Boulevard on Saturday. The man walked into the Dari-Mart at about 10 p.m and demanded money. He had his hands in his jacket pockets so the clerk thought he might have been armed.

CLASSICAL CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA Szell Conducts Mozart: Original Jacket edition Sony The Cleveland Orchestra doesn`t return for its final Carnival Center concert of the season till next month, but in the meantime this recent choice reissue in Sony`s Original Jackets edition should please restless ticket holders.

32481. I will be heading out to Chiropractic College ... to see a pair of Sec. 5 Class C games Tomorrow (#2 Campbell-Savona [20-1]vs #3 Marion [19-4]) & (#1 Red Jacket [15-6] vs #4 H.A.C. [11-9]). How does anyone think of these Matchups ?

MARYSVILLE - They`ve got an old buggy. They`ve got a 19th-century typewriter. They`ve got old logging equipment, including a stiff-as-a-board logger`s jacket. They`ve got a portable, coal-fired foot heater.

The Norodom Ranariddh Party ( NRP) plans to stage a demonstration soon to protest the Funcinpec Party`s allegation that NRP president pocketed public funds, said a press release received on Thursday.

Senior British officials fear that U.S. President George W. Bush will attack Iran before the end of his second term if he concludes that diplomacy has failed, The Times newspaper reported Friday.