Word: oprahism
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South Africa was forced to confront its hidden plague of sexual abuse on Monday after the full scale of a scandal at a school set up for disadvantaged girls by talk show host Oprah Winfrey was revealed...
...bail hearing in Johannesburg, dormitory matron Tiny Virginia Makopo, 27, was charged with 13 separate counts of abuse, including indecent assault and criminal injury committed against at least six students aged 13 to 15 and a 23-year-old at the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls, at Henley-on-Klip outside Johannesburg. The school was established on Jan. 2 at a cost of $40 million and opened by Winfrey in a ceremony watched by Nelson Mandela, Spike Lee and Tina Turner. Winfrey personally picked the 152 students, who study and live there free of charge. Makopo...
...Black, as head of one of the world's largest magazine publishers, is the exemplar of the successful, fulfilled woman that her readers aspire to be. She is responsible for 19 titles, including such flagship women's magazines as the 122-year-old Good Housekeeping, Cosmopolitan and O: The Oprah Magazine, her most recent blockbuster...
...Hearst. Black had already proved herself; now she would have to prove that there was still life left in the old magazine industry. "It's time to blow the dust off the curtains at Hearst!" she announced at a management conference. And she did. Black launched O: The Oprah Magazine in 2000, which has generated $1.3 billion in ad revenue since then and all but invented a new category, the celebrity-driven lifestyle and self-help magazine...
Among the resident celebrities of Chicago are Oprah, Obama, Ditka and - a chef surprise for non-foodies - Charlie Trotter. Trotter, whose namesake restaurant is destination dining for gourmets the world over, makes headlines in this city as easily as the others. He caused a brouhaha two years ago when he decided to take foie gras off his restaurant's menu. A Chicago alderman, inspired by Trotter's sympathy for force-fed ducks, won a citywide ban on foie gras sale in restaurants. The resulting controversy echoes in food circles around the country to this...