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...that when she took responsibility for the publishing of the book on the show she said Oprah "didn't ask me another question," but turned her attention and wrath on Frey. After the show, Talese said Frey told her Oprah pulled him aside and said, "I know it was rough, but it's just business...
...YouTube debate with the Democratic candidates, heralded as an almost life-changing event for American voters, had its rough moments (the puppet snowman, the man with a gun for a baby), and even those on stage complained (Joe Biden referred to it at one point as a "ridiculous exercise"). But once the cameras were turned off, the event received warm reviews from most observers in the mainstream media. The Washington Post's Dan Balz called it "the best of the campaign season," the Chicago Tribune's blog said it was the "summer's best reality show," and the New York...
...malaise permeated the entire Western world: in France it inspired Pierre de Coubertin to create the Olympic movement; in Britain it moved Robert Baden-Powell to found the Boy Scouts; in the U.S. it fueled a passion for the new sport of football and helped make a hero of rough-riding Theodore Roosevelt...
...says. Pointing to the next one, he adds, "That one belongs to the head of the local duma [legislature]." What of the owner of that half-finished mansion? "He was shot," says Kabriov, his failure to elaborate a reminder that such a fate was not uncommon in the rough-and-tumble race to get rich in communism's wake...
...Keen to avoid the criticism it faced from players in 1999, the R & A, which oversees British Open venues, has widened the fairways this year. Carnoustie's general manager Graeme Duncan says a cold, wet spring has thinned out the rough. The winning score could be 20 or so shots lower than eight years ago, he reckons. But Carnoustie's head greens keeper, John Philp, whose fingers are stained black by the course's soil, says such a tally would be an insult to the links' distinguished history: "Golf was never meant to be a fair game, or an easy...