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...Cuomo could be a formidable challenger in the Democratic primary. A Senate seat would presumably remove him from a potential gubernatorial run. On the other hand, Paterson could decide to pick a candidate with weaker statewide appeal, like New York City congresswoman Nydia Velazquez, in an attempt to chum the waters for the 2010 Senate election - luring formidable contenders like Cuomo and Rudy Giuliani into the race and away from a possible run at the governor...
...Osborne, born to affluence that might have been expected to inoculate him against the glint of gold, hardly seems immune himself. Five weeks before his speech to the Conservative conference, he had enjoyed the hospitality of Rothschild, an old university chum, in Corfu and attended, with Mandelson and a heady mix of the powerful and the outrageously loaded, Elisabeth Murdoch's 40th birthday dinner on the island. That's exactly the sort of high life former Prime Minister Tony Blair notoriously enjoyed during his tenure in Downing Street. Blair's vacations with well-heeled new best friends, from Italian media...
Brideshead Revisited Directed by Julian Jarrold; rated PG-13; out now "Don't be such a tourist," Sebastian Flyte chides his college chum when they arrive at the titular house. But gawking is the appeal of this not-mandatory version of the Evelyn Waugh novel. Much is made of the beauty and danger of faith, stately piles and statelier moms (Emma Thompson is the matriarch). It's nice enough to visit, maybe...
MythBusters: Shark Special and Surviving Sharks Discovery, 9 p.m. E.T., July 27 & 28 MythBusters uses its second Shark Week special to test tips on how to survive a sea-critter attack. Then Survivorman's Les Stroud makes himself into human chum to explore ... exactly the same thing! Edge to MythBusters, which builds a cool mechanical great white. MythBusters: B- Surviving...
...flowers, 300 or 400 pieces of snail mail, and who knows how many text messages before I could move on," says O'Connor. The equestrian world mourned. "RIP to the best pony ever," read one post on the website for The Chronicle of the Horse, an equestrian magazine. "Rest, chum. Thank you for changing the way others look at little horses with big hearts, just like you," read another...