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By Peter Richardson
By Jabari Asim
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AP / Diane Bondareff
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Musician and native Haitian Wyclef Jean, who also represents one-third of the Fugees himself, is pondering a bid to become Haiti’s next president. Jean, who made pleas for his homeland after last winter’s earthquake ... (continued)
Posted on Jul 28, 2010
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ABC
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President Obama is scheduled to guest on “The View,” Thursday, marking the first time a sitting president has lowered himself to daytime talk. Hopefully he doesn’t get confused and try to fire Sherri Shepherd, who is not Shirley Sherrod.
Posted on Jul 26, 2010
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southparkstudios.com
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Looks like he just gave “South Park” some new material: Zachary Chesser, the man who posted a warning online suggesting that the cheeky cartoon’s creators might be in danger after they attempted to depict the Prophet Muhammad ...
Posted on Jul 22, 2010
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AP / Seth Wenig
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She played a politician on TV, and now Geena Davis, who did a short stint as America’s first female president on “Commander in Chief,” is California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s appointee for the Golden State’s Commission on the Status of Women.
Posted on Jul 21, 2010
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Amazon
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It looks like Amazon’s e-book strategy is paying off. CEO Jeff Bezos revealed Monday that, “even while our hardcover sales continue to grow,” his company sold 180 Kindle edition books for every 100 hardcovers last month. That figure has accelerated since Amazon dropped the price of its best-selling product, the Kindle e-book reader, by $70.
Posted on Jul 20, 2010
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Flickr / SEIU International
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Aaron Sorkin made his name as a writer and producer of “The West Wing,” so he clearly knows a thing or two about political drama. Turns out he also really wants to direct movies, and he’s gearing up to make quite a debut with his big-screen adaptation of ... (continued)
Posted on Jul 16, 2010
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Flickr / PrincessAshley (CC-BY-ND)
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It is officially not safe to put Mickey Mouse’s head on Jesus’ body if you live in Russia. A Russian court has fined the creators of a museum show more than $11,000 on the grounds they incited hatred.
Posted on Jul 12, 2010
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AP / Roberto Pfeil
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Roman Polanski is a lucky man—and as of Monday, he’s also a free man after a Swiss judge decided that the justification for Polanski’s extradition to the U.S. was flawed. So, the “freedom-restricting measures against him have been revoked.” Updated
Posted on Jul 12, 2010
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Flickr / Shutter Bunny
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Those goofy social scientists, always trying to quantify life’s seemingly immeasurable phenomena and solve intractable mysteries—such as, for example, whether or not having kids makes people any happier.
Posted on Jul 7, 2010
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youtube.com
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Rolling Stone scribe Michael Hastings is still riding high from his big score about “Runaway General” Stanley McChrystal—who has, it should again be noted, been obliged to evacuate the scene of the story since the piece was published—and now ...
Posted on Jul 6, 2010
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Photo illustration based on a photo from kremlin.ru
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Canadian pop sensation Justin Bieber invited fans to pick the destination of his next tour. Some clever hooligans over at 4chan decided to hijack the vote and send the teen heartthrob to—where else?—North Korea. With a day and change left to vote, the Hermit Kingdom was beating out second-place Israel and third-place Poland by a few thousand votes.
Posted on Jul 5, 2010
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Flickr / audrey_sel (CC-BY-SA)
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Competitive eating (aka food contests) is enough of a cultural phenomenon that the annual Nathan’s hot dog chokedown is broadcast on ESPN. This weekend Joey Chestnut took the honors, but his greatest threat (and some would argue the “sport’s” true champion), Japanese phenom Takeru Kobayashi, was barred from participating. (continued)
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imdb.com
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In this economy we don’t begrudge anyone a job, but we have to wonder why studios keep bailing this guy out. His latest, “The Last Airbender,” gets an average rating of only 8 percent on the Rotten Tomatoes website. Roger Ebert writes that the film “is an agonizing experience in every category I can think of and others still waiting to be invented.” (continued)
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youtube.com
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Turns out the rumors are true: CNN is soon going to drop “Larry King Live” from its lineup. The Suspendered One announced Tuesday that he’ll retire this fall after 25 years with the show to spend more time with his family.
Posted on Jun 29, 2010
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Flickr / The_Admiralty
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While it certainly was keen of Sir Paul McCartney to defend President Obama’s handling of the BP oil spill debacle, can someone please call an official moratorium on invoking Holocaust parallels to suit some contemporary sociopolitical crisis?
Posted on Jun 24, 2010
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