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...sense, Pataki's smooth glide toward a third term represents a personal triumph: the obscure state senator from Peekskill rose to fame eight years ago by toppling the mercurial Mario Cuomo, thanks mainly to being so unlike him. Like the straight man in old screwball comedies, the man who made bland a brand owed his success to being unobjectionable; but he owes his survival, in a state with 5 Democrats for every 3 Republicans, to moving so far to the center that the center itself has moved. He gave the teachers a raise; he subsidized prescription drugs for seniors...
...because of the celebrity of those who wore them - Elizabeth Hurley, Princess Diana and Naomi Campbell. To underscore that point, giant portraits of Hurley in the safety-pin dress she made famous and Diana in a powder-blue beaded sheath flank the entrance. The show's emphasis on fame over fashion says a lot about the V&A's reasons for staging it in the first place. When the museum announced last spring that its largest exhibition devoted to a single designer would celebrate Versace, the fashion press asked: "Why?" The V&A's reply - that this year marks...
...changed in years. The capital of Equatorial Guinea, a tiny West African nation of fewer than 500,000 people, consisted of little more than some moldering Spanish colonial buildings, a few palm-lined plazas and the tightly packed shanty towns which encircle most African settlements. Its one claim to fame was that novelist Frederick Forsyth lived there while he wrote his military thriller The Dogs of War. But over the past three years, Malabo has been transformed. Office buildings have shot up, hotels and banks have opened, and foreigners - once a novelty in Malabo - now cram the town's fancy...
...life miserable has rehabilitated himself by being a good father - now 62% think he will make a good King, up from 41% after she died. Even the Other Woman, Camilla Parker Bowles - Diana dubbed her the "Rottweiler" - appears routinely at Charles' side. Burrell profited mildly from his post-Diana fame by giving lectures about royalty on the QE2 and writing a book on how to entertain, but unlike so many other royal retainers, he never cashed in with a tell-all memoir. He left a tantalizing hint in his police statement that he might disgorge Diana's secrets...
...title of the album is apt, as CKY has made no secret of its disdain for the trendy pop confections on the airwaves. Yet they seem intent on affecting their revolution from within the system. Their videos have played on TRL, and much of their fame has come by way of association with the MTV show “Jackass.” The music on Infiltrate is far more radio-friendly than previous albums, which included lyrics like “I caught my daughter giving head to my brother.” The emotions are more coded...