Different Dedication: Writer Hunter Thompson wants the...

Different Dedication: Writer Hunter Thompson wants the last word. His new “Songs of the Doomed” is dedicated to “all the friends, strangers and even enemies who answered the Great Roll Call when I was seized by rabid scum who tried to put me in prison.” Thompson faced drug charges earlier this year at a party outside Aspen, Colo., but the case was dropped because witnesses refused to cooperate with prosecutors.

Court Report: Eduardo Agnelli, heir to the Fiat auto fortune, was acquitted Tuesday in Malindi, Kenya, on a charge of heroin possession. The prosecution claimed Agnelli and his two Kenyan co-defendants threw a cache of heroin over a wall into an adjoining room when police raided a home Aug. 21. But the magistrate noted that the walls were attached to woven-mat ceilings, preventing the alleged ruse. “God bless this country,” said Agnelli, who is the only son of Giovanni Agnelli, chairman of Fiat.

Nixon Again: The Baltimore Orioles are thinking about asking Richard Nixon to throw out their first pitch next year--the team’s last in Memorial Stadium. “I’m sure it’s something he’d look at and consider,” said an aide to the former President. Vice President Richard Nixon threw out the first ball on April 15, 1954, when the team played its first game at the stadium.

Unhitched Again: The Duvaliers are divorcing again. Deposed Haitian dictator Jean-Claude (Baby Doc) Duvalier has filed for divorce from his wife, Michele, in southern France, where the two live separately since fleeing Haiti in 1986. They were divorced last November by a court in the Dominican Republic but the judgment was not recognized by the courts in France.