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Mary Travers of Peter, Paul and Mary dead at 72

Thu, 17 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - By Associated Press - Sep. 17 (News Report) - Mary Travers, one-third of the hugely popular 1960s folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary, has died.

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A New Chapter of Grief in Plath-Hughes Legacy

Sun, 12 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By David Barstow - Apr. 12 (News Report) - The news of the suicide of Sylvia Plath’s son, Nicholas Hughes, has cut through two distant and disconnected worlds in vastly different ways.

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Forget Britney; Media Outrage Hits Big Spenders

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Brian Stelter - Mar. 13 (News Report) - It could be called “To Catch a Rich Guy." The celebrity Web site TMZ and TV shows like “Extra” and “Inside Edition” are expanding their coverage of starlets and Hollywood break-ups to include billion-dollar business scandals and the economic collapse.

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Mormons to get 'South Park' treatment

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

The Independent - By Guy Adams - Nov. 19 (Not sure) - News of the potentially-controversial project comes at a tough time for the Mormon Church, which is fighting a propaganda war over its role in passing Proposition 8, the ballot measure that outlawed same-sex weddings in California this month.

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The Oracle

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

New Yorker - By Lauren Collins - Oct. 07 (Special Report) - Although Huffington was known as a conservative for most of her life, the Huffington Post is a kind of liberal foil to the Drudge Report. According to Nielsen Online, in February it drew 3.7 million unique visitors, surpassing Drudge for the first time. Its advertisers have included Starbucks, Volkswagen, Home Depot, and the Times. In August, the site logged 5.1 million unique visitors. This election season, both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama—whom Huffington supported over Clinton, in part because of his opposition to the war in Iraq—attempted to harness the voting power of its impassioned readership, with Clinton contributing posts about child poverty and the Bush Administration’s threats to reproductive rights, and Obama justifying his position on the FISA bill and clarifying his relationship to the Reverend Jeremiah Wright.

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Heart to McCain/Palin: Back off on 'Barracuda'

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Boston Globe - By David Beard - Sep. 05 (News Report) - Sarah Palin's views and values in NO WAY represent us as American women. We ask that our song 'Barracuda' no longer be used to promote her image. The song 'Barracuda' was written in the late 70s as a scathing rant against the soulless, corporate nature of the music business, particularly for women. (The 'barracuda' represented the business.) While Heart did not and would not authorize the use of their song at the RNC, there's irony in Republican strategists' choice to make use of it there.

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Carlin gets last laugh on death

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700

CNN - By CNN Staff - Jul. 29 (Special Report) - Just months before he died, George Carlin was looking into the face of death -- and making it the butt of his jokes.

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Historians fear MLK's legacy being lost

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Associated Press - By Deepti Hajela - Jan. 21 (Special Report) - Nearly 40 years after the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., some say his legacy is being frozen in a moment in time that ignores the full complexity of the man and his message. "Everyone knows -- even the smallest kid knows about Martin Luther King -- can say his most famous moment was that 'I have a dream' speech," said Henry Louis Taylor Jr., professor of urban and regional planning at the University of Buffalo. "No one can go further than one sentence. All we know is that this guy had a dream. We don't know what that dream was."

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Should celebrities set the global agenda?

Sun, 30 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0800

Los Angeles Times - By Daniel W. Drezner - Dec. 30 (News Report) - Some Americans may view celebrities who pontificate on politics and policy as taking advantage of a bully pulpit that they did not earn. There's a fine line between principled activism and righteous indignation, and the celebrity who crosses that line risks incurring the wrath of Americans.

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Singer Dan Fogelberg, 56, Dies of Cancer

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0800

Associated Press - By Nekesa Mumbi Moody - Dec. 17 (Other) - Dan Fogelberg, the singer and songwriter whose hits "Leader of the Band" and "Same Old Lang Syne" helped define the soft-rock era, died Sunday at his home in Maine after battling prostate cancer. He was 56.

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Montel Williams Threatens Reporters, Apologizes

Sat, 01 Dec 2007 19:17:43 -0800

Editor & Publisher - Dec. 01 (News Report) - SAVANNAH Talk show host Montel Williams has apologized for an angry confrontation with reporters who said he threatened them. Williams -- in Savannah to promote a program giving free prescriptions to low-income people -- became upset with a reporter's question Friday and terminated an interview. When the Savannah Morning-News reporters later returned to the hotel for an unrelated assignment, he approached one of them -- high school student Courtney Scott, an intern at the newspaper. "As we were preparing to film, Montel walked up with his bodyguard and got in Courtney Scott's face pointing his finger telling her 'Don't look at me like that. Do you know who I am? I'm a big star, and I can look you up, find where you live and blow you up,'" said Joseph Cosey, a web content producer for the newspaper. "At this time he was randomly pointing at all of us."

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LeBron Inc.

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 10:37:35 -0800

Business Week - By Tim Arango - Nov. 30 (Special Report) - Instead of just lining up endorsements and cashing checks, James is seeking equity in the companies he works with; and he is using his on-court prowess to build a corporation that deals with entities as disparate as Bubblicious and Warren Buffett.

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Pope Benedict to visit U.S., meet with Bush, U.N.

Tue, 13 Nov 2007 21:22:54 -0800

Associated Press - By Rachel Zoll - Nov. 13 (News Report) - he announcement comes as the 67 million-member American church grapples with a priest shortage and an often alienated flock, and is still recovering from the clergy sex abuse crisis. American dioceses have paid more than $2 billion in settlements with victims since 1950.

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300 dervishes whirl for Rumi in Turkey

Sun, 30 Sep 2007 06:42:54 -0700

Tehran Times - By (no name provided) - Sep. 30 (News Report) - Today marks the birth anniversary of Molana Jalal ad-Din Rumi. Turkey is to celebrate Rumi's birthday with a giant whirling dervish sama performance and the celebration will be aired live in eight different countries using 48 cameras.

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Getting the goods on green celebs

Sun, 02 Sep 2007 10:22:30 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Gina Piccalo - Sep. 02 (News Report) - No, it's not easy being green, least of all for Hollywood A-listers living in jaw-dropping decadence. Solar panels on a 50,000-square-foot manse in Malibu just don't scream "Live simply!" Ditto hopping onto a private plane to get to the Live Earth concert. Of course, celebrities don't let their lavish lifestyles stop them from preaching to the rest of us about temperance. Eco-friendly living isn't about great sacrifice, they contend, it's about making small but powerful changes. It's about voting green. It's about buying green. Besides, they say, they're doing their part by using their fame to broadcast a pro-Earth message that reaches millions of people. Isn't that enough?

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Victim's dad can seek rights to O.J. Simpson's book

Fri, 15 Jun 2007 06:48:34 -0700

CNN - Jun. 15 (News Report) - A federal bankruptcy judge on Friday ruled that the father of Ron Goldman can pursue the publishing rights to a book by O.J. Simpson, which speaks in hypothetical terms about the 1994 murders of Goldman and Simpson's ex-wife, Nicole.

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Tug-of-war over Hilton raises larger questions

Sat, 09 Jun 2007 06:35:47 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Tami Abdollah, Megan Garvey - Jun. 09 (News Analysis) - A sobbing Paris Hilton was shipped back to jail Friday, culminating a high-stakes legal showdown between a judge and Sheriff Lee Baca over who controls how long and where inmates serve their jail sentences. The questions have loomed large over the Los Angeles County justice system for years as judges watched in frustration as the sheriff slashed the sentences they handed down, often by 90%, to alleviate chronic overcrowding in his jails.

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money talks

Tue, 24 Apr 2007 09:09:23 -0700

Vogue - By Clay Risen - Apr. 24 (Special Report) - ebruary 26, 2007, was a beautiful late-summer day along the Gold Coast, a booming tourist mecca just south of Brisbane on Australia's eastern shore. But for the corporate executives attending the VeryGC Global Business Insights conference, the real attraction was in the cavernous main banquet hall of the Gold Coast Convention Centre: Alan Greenspan. Or rather, Greenspan's disembodied, two-dimensional head. Appearing by video simultaneously for conference hall audiences in Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, and Singapore, the former Federal Reserve chairman conducted an hour-long Q & A gabfest moderated by Nik Gowing, lead anchor for BBC World. It was during this session that Greenspan muttered the words now seared into the brains of financiers worldwide--"By the end of the year, there is a possibility, but not a probability, of the U.S. moving into a recession"--that triggered the subsequent global market plunge and cost the Dow 416 points in one day.

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Darfur Collides With Olympics, and China Yields

Fri, 13 Apr 2007 16:12:45 -0700

New York Times - By Helene Cooper - Apr. 13 (News Report) - For the past two years, China has protected the Sudanese government as the United States and Britain have pushed for United Nations Security Council sanctions against Sudan for the violence in Darfur. But in the past week, strange things have happened. A senior Chinese official, Zhai Jun, traveled to Sudan to push the Sudanese government to accept a United Nations peacekeeping force.... So what gives? Credit goes to Hollywood -- Mia Farrow and Steven Spielberg in particular.

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When Alan Greenspan talks, people still listen

Tue, 20 Mar 2007 05:42:35 -0700

USA Today - By Barbara Hagenbaugh - Mar. 20 (Special Report) - He has taken little vacation time, and his golf clubs are gathering dust. Instead, he's spending long days at his Washington-based consulting firm, which he started days after leaving the Fed in January 2006. Investors are still hanging onto his every word, as they did in his 18½ years as Fed chief. The fact that, during an appearance in February, he wouldn't completely rule out a recession later this year was partly blamed for a stock market plunge around the globe, including the sharpest U.S. stock sell-off since the aftermath of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. "I wish he'd just go away," says Hugh Johnson, chairman of Johnson Illington Advisors, a money management firm in Albany, N.Y.,

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Phone snappers put squeeze on paparazzi

Tue, 27 Feb 2007 13:17:09 -0800

The Guardian - By Michael Leidig - Feb. 27 (News Report) - A top paparazzo has said business for celebrity photographers is under serious threat from an army of amateurs and opportunists snapping stars on their mobile phones. German Hans Paul, who says he once earned $120,000 for a picture of a then-pregnant Julia Roberts, said fees for paparazzi had been driven to new lows as even fans and autograph hunters now know how to market their pictures.

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Score for Scientology?

Sat, 13 Jan 2007 06:04:06 -0800

New York Daily News - By Adam Nichols - Jan. 13 (Special Report) - Scientology's chief cheerleader Tom Cruise helped tempt David Beckham to L.A., fueling speculation the soccer ace and his wife may become the church's next celebrity converts.

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James Brown's body has not been buried

Wed, 10 Jan 2007 14:25:09 -0800

Associated Press - Jan. 10 (News Analysis) - COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- The body of soul singer James Brown has yet to be buried as attorneys and his children work to settle issues surrounding his estate, including where he will be laid to rest.

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When celebrities speak on science

Wed, 03 Jan 2007 12:22:49 -0800

BBC News - Jan. 03 (Not sure) - 'Sense About Science' has urged stars not to dip their toes into tricky scientific issues without checking their facts first.

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Chevy Chase as the Klutz in Chief, and a President Who Was in on the Joke

Fri, 29 Dec 2006 00:44:29 -0800

New York Times - By Mark Leibovich - Dec. 29 (News Report) - While the events leading to Gerald Ford's ascent to the White House tarred him as an accidental president, he will also be remembered as an accident-prone president.

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