Garry and George: Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist George...

Garry and George: Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist George Will upbraided “Doonesbury” cartoonist Garry Trudeau for portraying Vice President Dan Quayle as the subject of a drug probe. “I don’t see where he gets standing to condescend to Dan Quayle,” Will said Tuesday. But the writer added: “We obviously allow great license to cartoonists and should.” The “Doonesbury” strip suggests the White House covered up an investigation of Quayle. Will then skewered the President: “If George Bush were to die, God forbid, we’d have a mediocre President. We have a mediocre President.”

Dog Days: It’s just what the doctor ordered. Donny Tomei, 11, showed signs he was battling his week-old coma when he snapped his fingers and moved his legs and an arm when he heard his dog, Rusty, missed him. The sixth-grader is in a West Haven, Conn., hospital with head injuries after he was hit by a car. “Now he moves his legs and arm every time we say: ‘Donny, you have to get better so you can walk Rusty down to the boat ramp. He’s crying for you,’ ” says Donny’s brother, Albert.

Shut Your Mouth: Mobsters seem to like to talk about life, death and the code of silence. And mob turncoats seem to like to talk most of all: Jimmy (the Weasel) Fratianno: “There are three laws you must obey without question. You must never betray any of the secrets of the Cosa Nostra. You must never violate the wife or children of another member. You must never become involved with narcotics. The violation of any of these laws means death.” Henry Hill: “Even at the end, with all the threats I was getting and all the time I was facing behind the wall, I still loved the life. . . . (Now) I get to live the rest of my life like a schnook.”

No Cleavage: Women’s breasts should not be legally distinguished from men’s, a Rochester, N.Y., judge ruled, and women are happy about it. Judge Patricia Marks overturned 10 women’s convictions for exposing their breasts in public to protest the state nudity law, which classifies women’s breasts as different from men’s. The judge said the distinction is a violation of the U.S. Constitution.