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...humor. Her tell-all memoir, Official Book Club Selection - brazenly named, Griffin says, in hopes that Oprah will pick it for her book club or at the very least invite Griffin onto the show - catalogs the outrageous redhead's decades-long struggle to make it in Hollywood, her slow climb to the middle and all the claw marks she left along the way. Griffin talks to TIME about plastic surgery, dating Levi Johnston and being mistaken for another famous Kathy. (See TIME's 10 Questions video with Ricky Gervais...
...lites with a bulwark against the upwardly mobile. But such mores were propagated by aspirants too: those savvy enough to learn all the rules increased their odds of earning a ticket into polite society. "It [was] insiders trying to keep other people out," says Steele, "and outsiders trying to climb in by proving they know the rules." (See the video "Recession Etiquette with Peggy Post...
...with Grassley three times at the White House and called him three times more just to keep in touch. White House aides reckoned that if Grassley, with his conservative credentials, could find a health-care deal he liked, a significant number of other Republicans might be persuaded to climb aboard. "Health care not only is 16% of the gross national product, but it touches the quality of life of every household as few others do," Grassley declared back in April. "I'm doing everything I can to make the reform effort in Congress a bipartisan...
...first, I thought, 'Is he a window washer?' But he had no equipment." - Kim Severson, a New York Times reporter who watched Robert climb the Times building in New York City in June 2008. (New York Times, June...
...great feeling to know that 100 cops want to stop you doing something and they can't. When I climb a building, I've been there already, and carefully planned how to start the climb as well as how to do it. Maybe if there were 1,000 of them, they could stop me." -To a London Daily Telegraph reporter, June...