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Grab your broom, flick your wand, and chug a butterbeer, because it’s time for a trip across the pond to a magical land where anything is possible: the British press.
The cover story of Newsweek is “Diana at 50,” in which editor Tina Brown attempts to envision what the princess might be up to these days if she were alive. Inspired by Brown’s creativity, we came up with a few more well-known people who might also have shown up at the party, had they not been dead.
As the Anthony Weiner Twitter whodunit trundles on into almost a full week, it remains unclear where the now-infamous photo came from. To help shed some light on this, I contacted Hany Farid, a renowned expert in forensic photographic image analysis.
‘Bridesmaids,’ the movie that made the right to barf on screen a feminist act.
Newt Gingrich has a $500,000 line of credit at the upscale jewelry retailer Tiffany’s. Yet Gingrich is far from the first politician to face backlash over lavish personal expenditures. Here’s a slideshow of other elected officials who found themselves in hot water for their expensive ways.
The political fight over Medicare is over. Paul Ryan lost.
With her TV show coming to an end there’s reason to hope the club doesn’t get a second act.
Oblivion without surprise: I suppose that’s a definition of both the experience of Alzheimer’s and our relationship with that saucy (if not over-sauced) Jack Sparrow.
HBO is filming a new movie about the 2008 presidential campaign, Game Change,and we wanted to know if actors who portray politicians always look like them.
I just saw a Hanes commercial with Michael Jordan — as I mentioned, I'm feeling a little sick or something and there turns out to be some kind of intercollegiate basketball tournament on television — and Jordan has a Hitler mustache! Really?
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