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...Clooney also preempts situations that might earn him ridicule later. So he has either turned down every gift bag he's been offered or has put them up on eBay for charity. "I've been smart about that. Rich famous people getting free s___ looks bad. You look greedy. And I don't need a cell phone with sparkles on it," he says. He sends handwritten apology letters to the directors whose scenes he ripped off in the movies he directed-Mike Nichols, Sidney Lumet, Sydney Pollack. He drives an electric car and a Lexus hybrid...
...Still, Ohio has some advantages for Obama - if he decides to exploit them. It is rich in college students, who number well in excess of 125,000; it has twice the number of African Americans that Wisconsin has as a percentage of its overall population (11.4% vs. 5.6%) and a smaller percentage of Hispanics, who have in other states produced strong margins for Clinton. Through last weekend, Obama was outspending Clinton by about three to one in the state's pivotal Northeast quadrant, where the largest share of Democrats live. Clinton aired her first Ohio spot starting Tuesday...
...Part of what makes Ankawa a target-rich environment for Cupid's arrows is the relative openness and sophistication of the Christian town, compared to conservative Erbil, the nearby capital of the Kurdish region. Alcohol, mixed company and marriages of choice are all much more socially acceptable among Christians than their Kurdish neighbors, most of whom are Muslims. And Ankawans have strong ties to Lebanon, which has a large Christian population and a reputation as the fashion capital of the Middle East, so they think they know how to throw a wedding in style. ("Our dresses show a little skin...
...Eagles’ wings clipped and their fervent traveling support silenced, the Crimson went on to dominant proceedings in the singles. No. 3 Omodele-Lucien—in his fourth dual of the day—demolished Sechrist, 6-2, 6-2, while No. 1 Kumar continued his rich vein of form against Nolan, the senior powering to a 6-3, 6-4 win. The contest was salted away by No. 5 Will Guzick, as the freshman hit a delicate lob to clinch a 6-4, 6-1 victory. “Today was awesome,” said Kumar...
...inspired bit of parody, the liberal New Statesman illustrated a special issue on the subject with a photomontage of Thatcher as Queen Victoria.) As Peregrine Worsthorne, associate editor of the conservative Sunday Telegraph, puts it, Thatcher "is as ignorantly contemptuous of the so-called values of the idle rich as of the so-called idle poor...