News Briefing: Performing Arts Center to Receive $11 Million

• Betty Wold Johnson donates $11 million to the New Jersey Performing Arts Center.  [New York Times]

• The New York Times invites Bono to write an Op-Ed page for the paper in 2009.  [New York Times]

• One-of-a-kind Cabbage Patch Kids dolls crafted in the likeness of the presidential and vice presidential candidates will be auctioned on eBay.  [Associated Press]