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...separate nation, the cycle team would currently be ninth in the medal table.) And John Coates, head of the Australian Olympic Committee, was even gracious enough to applaud a British gold in the pool as "not bad for a country that has no swimming pools and very little soap...
Following four young women's dramas, shifting alliances and adventures in the L.A. glamour biz, The Hills (Season 4 starts Aug. 18; Seasons 1 through 3 are out on DVD) comes from a proud heritage of California teen soaps. We met the protagonist, Lauren Conrad, on MTV's high school reality soap Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County. After graduation, she was spun off to The Hills, moved to L.A., landed an internship at Teen Vogue and made new friends. There's frenemy Heidi Montag, with her on-again, off-again boyfriend Spencer Pratt, the social-climbing Laddie Macbeth...
What They're Watching in the Middle East A syrupy Turkish soap opera has millions of viewers across the Arab world hooked--and their clerics seething. Religious leaders from Bahrain to the West Bank have condemned Noor for being "replete with wickedness, evil and moral collapse," in the words of Saudi Arabia's Grand Mufti. The show has drawn ire over its portrayal of egalitarian marriage--the heroine's husband supports her career in fashion--and characters who drink and date. Despite the criticism, 3 million to 4 million people in Saudi Arabia are tuning in daily...
...defending his brother in a brawl over a stolen mobile phone. On July 1 hundreds of demonstrators marched through Islington, Hackney's neighboring borough, to protest the knifing outside a local pub of 16-year-old Ben Kinsella, a straight-A student whose sister starred in a popular TV soap opera. Nine days later, four Londoners were knifed to death in separate incidents during the same 24-hour period, among them Melvin Bryan, who would have celebrated his 19th birthday two days later...
When we last saw Amanda Knox, she was bundled in a gray jacket against the crisp early winter air of the Italian hilltop city of Perugia, her crystal-blue eyes glancing anxiously toward a photographer's camera. The 20-year-old American exchange student with the Ivory-soap complexion was on her way to jail, charged in the murder of her British roommate, who was stabbed in the neck and bled to death in the flat they shared in the picturesque Umbrian capital...