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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is being remembered for her diplomatic skills by brokering peace between Conan O'Brien and Newark mayor Cory Booker, who have had some sort of feud about Newark—O'Brien had joked, "The Mayor of Newark, New Jersey wants to set up a citywide program to improve residents' health. The health-care program would consist of a bus ticket out of Newark" and then it started a volley of threats (Booker put O'Brien on Newark Airport's no-fly list) and more jokes.

Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney is in the midst of the difficult process of getting her late husband Clifford's body back to New York after he passed away in Tibet Saturday. Thus far Clifford Maloney has been carried 5,000 feet below the base camp where he died in his sleep after having climbed the 27,000 foot Himalayan peak of Cho Oyu. A friend of Maloney's called the negotiations with the Chinese government to allow a helicopter to be flown in "a complicated effort."