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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - A day after a judge allowed Palm Beach County prosecutors to begin reviewing Rush Limbaugh's medical records as part of their investigation into his prescription drug use, the judge reversed himself yesterday and ordered the records sealed for 15 days to give attorneys for the conservative commentator time to appeal. The order by Palm Beach County Circuit Judge Jeffrey Winikoff was the latest move in the battle over Limbaugh's medical records. Prosecutors seized the records from four doctors and sealed them in late November and early December.

Conservative radio show host Rush Limbaugh revealed yesterday that he's functionally deaf, and that he expects to lose all capacity to hear within a few months. "At that point, a decision has to be made as to what to do about it," Limbaugh told listeners yesterday, according to a transcript. "My desire is to continue doing this [show], and there are an infinite number of ways of continuing." In his statement, a mixture of vulnerability and classically Limbaughian bravado, the host acknowledged that he had not heard a single word spoken by callers on yesterday's broadcast.

In a town so tough that most murders get just a few paragraphs in the paper, somebody called The Sun about 8 a.m. yesterday with a tip about a vandalized billboard. By noon, the story was all over the Internet, Rush Limbaugh was kicking off his national radio show with it, and City Hall was fielding calls from as far away as California. By 5 p.m., the story had become one of the three most popular individual articles in the history of the paper's Web site, with nearly 200,000 page views.

NEW YORK -- At WFLA radio station in Tampa, Fla., program manager Gabe Hobbs began to worry recently about Rush Limbaugh. During the spring and summer, Mr. Limbaugh's ratings had dropped, and fans were complaining that the big man was becoming "repetitive" or "predictable."Even the head of a Rush Limbaugh fan club had admitted to Mr. Hobbs that hehad started skipping some of Mr. Limbaugh's show in favor of the O.J. Simpson trial."You hear that, you start to worry, " Mr. Hobbs says, adding hurriedly that he never worried enough to consider replacing the three-hour Limbaugh show.

WHILE I ABHOR violence, the idea of President Clinton punching New York Times columnist William Safire in the nose does have some appeal. Mr. Safire has called Hillary Rodham Clinton "a congenital liar" regarding Watergate -- I'm sorry, that was the affair of Mr. Safire's former boss, Richard Nixon; I meant Whitewater -- and Mr. Clinton is alleged by his spokesman to have refrained from a pugilistic response to this insult only because he is, after all,...

Mildred Limbaugh, 74, the mother of talk-show host Rush Limbaugh, died Thursday in Cape Girardeau, Mo.

1991: Martha Graham dies1992: Rush Limbaugh TV show1995: Jerry Garcia dies1994: Kurt Cobain commits suicide

When we hear Sauerbrey on the air.The right gets still more than its share:Politics in the rawAfter Smith and Limbaugh,That peerless nonpartisan pair.

Caesar had his Brutus. Sherlock Holmes his Moriarty. Bugs Bunny his Elmer Fudd.Comes now a 32-year-old writers' agent, ready to become the archfoe of one of the 20th century's largest men of letters and social commentary, a media giant.Yes, like it or not, Rush Limbaugh has his Brian Keliher."Actually, according to the demographics, I should be a big supporter of Rush Limbaugh," Mr. Keliher said in a recent interview in his office/apartment/publishing empire headquarters near the University of California, San Diego.

Let's see if we have this straight. First WBAL-AM radio steals Rush Limbaugh, America's favorite talk-show host, from WCBM-AM. Not to be outdone, WCBM hires Alan Keyes, the black conservative Republican who self-immolated in attempting to unseat Sen. Barbara Mikulski in 1992. CBM puts the glib Mr. Keyes on in the morning; BAL puts the blowhard (but wildly popular) Mr. Limbaugh on in the afternoon but on a delayed basis, so no Baltimorean can hope to get a call through to his program, heard on more than 600 stations.