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TONIGHT: Actor and star of Lucky Number Slevin, Josh Hartnett! Also, Dan Bakkedahl learns about "Beach Ploys".
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    Jon starts off tonight's show by mentioning tonight's guest, Josh Hartnett and then tells us about a guy who works for the department of homeland security was arrested and charged with seducing a minor over the Internet.

    We begin tonight's news coverage by travelling to Britain, where Condoleeza Rice admitted to to making thousands of mistakes in Iraq, but later on, she clarified that was not meant literally, just figuratively. Ms. Rice goes on to defend the figurative mistakes by saying that while they may be seen as mistakes now, we may be vindicated in the future. To see how Iraq will look in the future, we're shown Jon reading the news several years in the future, and he's apparently got no body anymore, yet the set looks exactly the same.

    Switching gears, Jon introduces a spring break segment from Dan Bakkedahl, who travels a little further south to find out how companies are using young people to advertise their products and make a lot of money. One critic Dan runs into has a problem with the fact that credit card companies are giving out credit cards to people who aren't responsible enough to deal with credit cards. During Dan's time on spring break, he binge drank free fruit-flavored water and signed a load of credit card offers, which be regretted at the end of his time there.

    Back from commercial, Jon reports on a recent study which examined whether or not people who prayed for better health. As it turns out, there was not really any difference between those who were prayed for and who weren't prayed for. The high rate of complications during the heart complications makes Jon think we should be praying for better heart surgeons instead.

    Back from commercial, Jon welcomes tonight's guest, Josh Hartnett, who stars in the new film, Lucky Number Slevin. In their interview, Jon and Josh talk about how they both worked on the film The Faculty several years ago and the fact that in Josh's new movie, he seems to have his shirt off in a lot of the scenes.

    I wasn't particularly fond of tonight's show. It was pretty much on par with the other episodes of this week... nothing excellent. My favorite bit was the tail end of the show when Stephen tried to fix the focus on the teleprompter.moreless

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