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...would 2009 have been the same without the top 10 "FAIL people" honorees, including "opposite-marriage" enthusiast Carrie Prejean and birth-giver extraordinaire Nadya Suleman, a.k.a. Octomom. (Voting opened before news of Tiger Woods' philandering first broke and ended just as the fourth of his myriad alleged mistresses went public, but in a late surge he nonetheless earned an honorable mention.) Claiming the top spot on both the FAIL moments and FAIL people lists is Kanye ("I'ma let you finish") West. (See a video of Ben Huh, patron saint of FAIL blog...
...alleged paramours reaches double digits, doesn't this potentially reckless behavior become news? Can you ignore the sensational story rocking your game with a straight face? Woods' sponsors aren't completely looking the other way. According to Nielsen Co., no Woods ads have aired since shortly after the scandal broke. And Pepsi announced that it would drop a Gatorade drink that pays homage to Woods, though the company insists the move was planned before the scandal arose. (See the top 10 sports moments...
...When Ivygate first started, I felt like it was very much a site that people would log on to just to procrastinate, but it occasionally broke news," said Lena Chen '10, writer of the blog Sex and the Ivy. "Nowadays there is no shortage of sites that do exactly what Ivy does...
...Early this year, he had nominated her to be U.S. Attorney for Montana, a Presidential appointment. The nomination was later withdrawn, he said, so that they could live together in D.C. There was much tittering in Washington circles (particularly among those opposed to health-care reform) when Reuters broke the news over the weekend. The Democratic Senator's office declared that the nomination was made on Hanes' merits and not because of the romantic relationship. (See 5 things the Democrats don't like about Max Baucus's Health Care Reform bill...
...Mount. Proclaimed as the third holiest site in Islam, it is the singular symbol of the Palestinian plight throughout the Muslim world. Tensions are rising as the Jerusalem municipality has begun destroying 88 homes in Silwan in order to make way for an archaeological park. Earlier this year, riots broke out in the Old City when an Islamist movement based among Israeli Arabs accused Israel of threatening the mosque. (See TIME's video "Jerusalem's New Secular Mayor...