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George Stephanopoulos missed an Essex House event that honored his network, ABC, on Monday. But the anchor of "This Week" had one beautiful alibi - his new daughter, Elliott Anastasia Stephanopoulos, who arrived at 7:02 a.m. The former Clinton aide was at Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington coaching his wife, Alexandra Wentworth, in the delivery room. Elliott - which was the maiden name of Wentworth's great-grandmother - arrived about two weeks early. An ABC rep says the parents attribute that to their spicy Mexican dinner Sunday night. NY Daily News

Elliott is such a lovely name for a little girl.

I guess Elliott should be glad her mom's great-grandmother's maiden name wasn't McGruff or Finkelstein. And in other news:

•The litigious Larry Klayman, president of the conservative group Judicial Watch, called us yesterday in great excitement to report that rats, hundreds of 'em, had swarmed into the nonprofit's School Street SW headquarters over the weekend after fleeing a construction site allegedly owned by the Democratic National Committee.

"Apparently the demolition work next door dislodged some rat colonies, and they invaded our fifth-floor offices. They defecated on people's desks and gnawed on telephone and computer cables. We've been invaded by packs of rats from the DNC."

The only problem with Klayman's theory is that the Democratic Party doesn't have anything to do with the site, DNC Chairman Terry McAuliffe told us yesterday. Whatever construction is planned, McAuliffe said, will occur at the DNC headquarters building several blocks away. Klayman's response: "Maybe these were rats sympathetic to the Democrats and acted because they were upset that the Democrats weren't coming." WashPost

Larry was the libs' darling as long as he was suing Cheney and bashing Bush, but he's back to being "litigious" and a conservative.

Yes, Elliot is such a fine name for a girl.

My other pet peeve is the name MADISON for a girl. I live in the land of MADISON. It drives me freakin crazy. I can't wait to meet a little girl named Mary and a boy named Jim.