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...cared for her ailing mother until the day she died. "Mum was my life," Boyle said. "She was the one who said I should enter Britain's Got Talent. We used to watch it together. She thought I would win." Boyle arrived center stage, with her awkward dignity and eyebrows like live mice, and even then fame mocked her with the nickname the Hairy Angel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Do-It-Yourself Heroes | 5/18/2009 | See Source »

SHIA LABEOUF tells Playboy his mom is sexy. Most awkward Mother's Day gift ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pop Chart | 5/18/2009 | See Source »

...Alexeyev had hoped that the Eurovision finals would help his cause, he was wrong. The events were treated with an awkward silence from Eurovision organizers. The Dutch team had threatened to pull out of the competition if the parade was banned, but the team did not qualify for the finals. And the Norwegian winner, Alexander Rybak, patronizingly told a press conference, "I think it's a little bit sad that they chose to have the protest today. They spent all their energy on that parade, while the biggest gay parade in the world [an allusion to the campy performances...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia to Gays: Get Back into the Closet | 5/18/2009 | See Source »

...most recent episode, "Closets and Crushes," the basement hallway of the Science Center becomes the place for awkward pasty boys to ask girls who just want to "rage" out on a "date" to a "rad pre-med thing...party, party!" All we know is that, in our years at Harvard, literally nothing worth recollecting has happened in that hallway with the two vending machines and the IT equipment...

Author: By Esther I. Yi | Title: Harvard Drama Never Seemed So Real | 5/17/2009 | See Source »

...Twitter account, which appears to have limits on capital letters: "It is sad to see notre dame invite president obama to give the commencement address since his policies are so anti catholic values." There's nothing like the zeal of a convert, but Gingrich may find it's awkward to try to be more Catholic than the Pope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Pope's Stand in Obama's Notre Dame Controversy | 5/16/2009 | See Source »

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