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SKIP GATES CLEARED OF CHARGES OF LOUDMOUTHING TO COPS: "Disorderly conduct charges filed against one of the nation's pre-eminent African-American scholarshave been dropped, local media reported on Tuesday." And for all you people who have been saying, "Well maybe Gates was just being an abrasive dick to the police and he should know better," you are encouraged to read his lawyer's version of events. [ Reuters ]