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...spying for the KGB, continued his work from behind bars isn't nearly as serious, but it won't exactly help the agency's reputation. Nicholson, who allegedly enlisted his Nathaniel son to collect his KGB "pension" and to pass on whatever secrets Dad still knew, is pretty much stale history. But even so, the news is an unwanted reminder that the KGB was eating the CIA's lunch in the 1990s - along with the National Security Agency's and the Department of Defense's. (See the top 10 Secret Service code names...
...perilously close to a delisting. Pier 1 was trading at 45 cents on Jan. 27, down 92% over the past 12 months. The real estate crash has been devastating to all home-furnishing retailers, but like Borders, Pier 1 wasn't performing well even before the collapse. "Merchandising was stale, they were relying too much on selling wicker furniture, the price points were probably too high and there was store saturation," says Anthony Chukumba, an equity analyst at FTN Midwest Securities Corp. (See pictures of Americans in their homes...
...media organ outside cyberspace, reported that Vogue editor in chief Anna Wintour might be leaving. That set off a domino chain of reports that are still tipping over three months later. The New York Times weighed in at the turn of the year, opining that Vogue had become "stale and predictable" during Wintour's 20-year reign. Overseas, newspapers and magazines from England to Thailand picked up the tale. Somewhere it acquired the too-good-to-fact-check tidbit that Wintour was to become an ambassador to France. (See the top 10 fashion faux...
...before last year's NFC Championship game in Green Bay. "He said, 'It's cold out here. It's freezing. I can't feel my toes. But it's temporary. Winning is forever.' That's a good one." I couldn't believe man vs. nature could trump man vs. stale celebrity-interview tropes. Then I remembered that these guys have probably never read Jack London...
...Even more important, Obama promises a respite from the nonstop anger of the recent American political wars, the beginning of an era of civility, if not comity. "What the cynics fail to understand," he said in his speech, "is that the ground has shifted beneath them - that the stale political arguments that have consumed us for so long no longer apply...