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On a balmy autumn day in Vancouver, a young man is longing for a walk outside in the sunshine, and deciding against it. Far easier for him to stay in his hotel room, cocooned in five-star luxury with a mobile phone that has run out of charge, safe at least from the girls chanting his name outside. Robert Pattinson, 23 and from Barnes in southwest London, ought still to be one of Hollywood’s beautiful dreamers, moving up the ranks of movie acting, enjoying his American adventure, his guitar, his good looks.Chris Brown and Rihanna had a history of violence
Originally posted Tuesday August 25, 2009 08:55 PM EDT Chris Brown and Rihanna Photo by: Jeff Kravitz / FilmMagic; Gilbert Flores / Celebrity Photo Rihanna and Chris Brown had two previous violent episodes before the Feb. 8 fight, which ultimately led to Brown's arrest and felony conviction, court documents reveal. The "Umbrella" singer allegedly slapped Brown in a heated argument three months prior to the February incident, according to Brown's probation review released Tuesday.Cheney Uncloaks His Frustration With Bush
'Statute of Limitations Has Expired' on Many Secrets, Former Vice President Says By Barton Gellman Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, August 13, 2009 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/12/AR2009081203306_pf.html In his first few months after leaving office, former vice president Richard B. Cheney threw himself into public combat against the "far left" agenda of the new commander in chief. More private reflections, as his memoir takes shape in slashing longhand on legal pads, have opened a second front against Cheney's White House partner of eight years, George W.New York Tackles Wage Theft Against Immigrants
NPR All Things Considered, May 19, 2009 · On a bustling sidewalk in the Dominican neighborhood of New York City's Washington Heights, Carmen Calderon reaches over a folding table to wave a pamphlet at a sandwich delivery man, shouting in Spanish, "You know your rights as a worker?" The man smiles and keeps biking. But in the course of an afternoon Calderon manages to lure others and deliver her message, part of a new effort by New York State's Labor Department to combat wage theft among this city's enormous immigrant workforce.The Innovation Squelch (Obamanomics is bad news for American entrepreneurs.)
James Manzi The Innovation Squelch Obamanomics is bad news for American entrepreneurs. 3 March 2009 For an academic macroeconomist, Nobel laureate Edmund Phelps can sound shockingly in touch with the real world. In a recent interview, he described the possible implications of the large government-spending programs in President Obama’s stimulus package: “There’s .Child 'slavery' being imported to U.S.
ne child's story speaks for the thousands locked in silent servitude The Associated Press updated 4:11 a.m. CT, Mon., Dec. 29, 2008 In Africa, children of the poor are commodities, often traded like cows or donkeys by adults who value their labor.Exit Bush, Shoes Flying
Exit Bush, Shoes Flying By Charles Krauthammer Friday, January 16, 2009; Page A19 ( washingtonpost.com) Except for Richard Nixon, no president since Harry Truman has left office more unloved than George W. Bush. Truman's rehabilitation took decades.Women in Politics After Hillary and Sarah
The “Bitch” and the “Ditz” How the Year of the Woman reinforced the two most pernicious sexist stereotypes and actually set women back. By Amanda Fortini/NY Times Published Nov 16, 2008 In the past few weeks, Sarah Palin has been variously described as a diva who engaged in paperwork-throwing tantrums, a shopaholic who spent $150,000 on clothing, a seductress who provocatively welcomed staffers while wearing only a towel, and a “whack-job”—contemporary code for hysteric. Worse, she was accused by a suspiciously gleeful Fox News reporter named Carl Cameron of not knowing Africa was a continent, of being unable to name the members of NAFTA, indeed of being unable to name the countries of North America at all.Clinton wins Ohio; Texas still too close to call
N.Y. senator also takes Rhode Island, NBC projects; Obama wins Vermont
Voters lined up to vote Tuesday in Chillicothe, Ohio. So many Ohioans turned up for the Democratic primary that some counties ran out of ballots, delaying the reporting of returns.
Shanna Moakler: "We're Investing in a Tour Bus"
Shanna Moakler is opening up about the horrific plane crash that killed four people and severely injured her ex-husband, Travis Barker. In her first interview since the crash, the former Miss USA tells Extra how she first heard the news, and how Barker ultimately survived. "I just got that phone call that you dread getting in the middle of the night," she says.
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