(2004-08-23) -- Police in Norway announced today that they had cleared former Democrat presidential candidate Howard Dean in the case of the missing 'Scream'.

"We had some email tips early on that Mr. Dean might have The Scream," said an unnamed police spokesman, "but it turns out that Mr. Dean's scream was an audio production and we're looking for a work of visual art--a painting by Edvard Munch."

The Munch painting, created in 1893, is valued at $62 million. The Dean scream was created in Iowa earlier this year and was worth several hundred million dollars to John Kerry's presidential campaign.

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