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Hole singer and Kurt Cobain heir Courtney Love is being sued by a rehab facility for allegedly paying just $10,000 of her $181,286 bill. Says gossip site CELEBSNOW.COM: "Courtney Love may claim to be clean and sober these days, but she's still apparently a little forgetful." score...
...long faces? Because of the supposed dearth of real conservatives in the Republican Presidential field. Conservatives, as right-wing activist David Bossie told Politico, "are desperately looking for an heir to Reagan's mantle" and none of the front-runners "are up to that...
Balthazar Napoleon de Bourbon may be the heir to the lapsed French throne. That sounds reasonable enough-except that the portly 48-year-old is also a decidedly un-Gallic lawyer from the central Indian city of Bhopal. Nevertheless, according to the book Le Rajah de Bourbon, published last week by European blueblood Prince Michael of Greece (a Bourbon scion himself), Balthazar is a direct descendant of Jean de Bourbon, a swashbuckling nephew of Henri IV who joined the court of the Mughal Emperor Akbar in 1560. While Jean's progeny faded into obscurity in the East, Henri...
There are Students for Hillary. Students for Obama. Students for Edwards, even Students for Dodd (whoever the Hell that is). At one point there were even a few sad-sacks who actually thought Governor Tom Vilsack of Iowa was a legitimate heir to the presidential throne...
...that usually ascends to the dangerous business of being a top Lebanese politician. He grew up in Sidon, an enthusiastic Arab nationalist like Hariri, who tapped him to be Finance Minister during Hariri's remarkable reconstruction of war-battered Beirut in the 1990s. As Hariri's son and political heir Saad was inexperienced in politics, Siniora agreed to accept the appointment as Prime Minister after Hariri's Future Movement triumphed in elections two years...