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After vetoing Mirkarimi's foot patrol proposal on Friday, Gavin Newsom skipped on over to the Red Tie Gala at Neiman-Marcus, to benefit St. Anne's Home for the elderly poor in the Lake District, run by the Little Sisters of the Poor. Hope those Sisters don't need foot patrols!

Save Kepler's! The Menlo Park community is rallying around the storied independent bookseller, who recently announced that it would have to shut down due to increasing rents. SFist Mary-Lynn was one of the two-hundred plus bibliophiles in attendance, and reports "TONS" of kids and signs, and that the car horns of support from El Camino were sometimes so loud that you couldn't always hear what people were saying. After the rally (at which owner Clark Kepler himself, along with good neighbor Mr. Baronne from Cafe Baronne next door to Kepler's, spoke), business types went into City Hall for a brainstorming session. Ten to fifteen investors have already been lined up, and other people have suggested that they work with Menlo Park neighboring town's Stanford Business School for help. Check out more of Mary-Lynn's awesome photos on Flickr or after the jump.

A cautionary tale of the jungle: cheetahs never win. 41 swift felines of the Namibian fields who had applied to Stanford Business School were rejected when the school found out that they had hacked into the computer system to find out whether or not they had gotten in. The school had originally said they'd review everyone's situation on a case-by-case basis, but after hearing all the tales of woe, Stanford determined that no one had a good enough excuse to warrant letting them in for the class of 2007. The Chron, riding high on the thrill of this "reporting" thing, are following up their story about the elderly woman with dementia whose house was taken over by gang members by running tales of elder abuse pretty much continuously for the last few days: the woman whose supposedly-devout Christian son stole $1.6 million from her and who let her teeth rot until she needed 12 root canals; the gang member who took out a second mortgage on a grandmother's house and invested the money in a dot com; a son who punched his mother in the stomach. A good collection of emails to send your own nagging mother, we say! (Though elder abuse is, of course, wrong and bad.) And finally, a stabbing at 19th and Harrison in the middle of Carnivale -- a man walking backwards with a beer bumped into someone else, and then the guy walking backwards stabs the guy he bumps into with a box cutter. The cops caught him shortly afterwards a few blocks down.