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...countries from Iceland to Turkey, from Morocco to Israel. No one takes the contest more seriously than the Russians. Last year, for example, they sneered when Ireland's representative in the Eurovision finals was a hand puppet named Dustin the Turkey. Russia's own contestant was Dima Bilan, a star so established that a BBC commentator sniped that it was as if Britain had sent Amy Winehouse to the competition (well, if she was allowed to travel). Bilan, who has a hugely successful Timbaland-produced album, performed in an elaborate presentation that featured Olympic-champion figure skater Yevgeny Plyuschenko skating...
...allowed to phone or text in their rankings of the contestants, with the proviso that a country's voters cannot vote for their own country's representative. Yet this has led controversial bloc voting in an effort to prevent others from winning. Says Alexander Panaiotov, a Russian pop star: "It's the biggest musical event of the year. Of course it's politicized." A case in point, he says, is Russia and Ukraine. "Russia doesn't care if, say, Bosnia wins, but if Ukraine wins, it's a scandal." Ukraine and Russia have been scrapping ferociously over...
...soon made a name for himself in parliament as a foreign policy and defense expert. But it wasn't until last fall, when the CSU went into meltdown after suffering big losses in the Bavarian state elections that Zu Guttenberg was thrown into the spotlight. Last November the rising star won his party's top job. When Michael Glos quit his job as Economy Minister last month, the CSU decided to replace him with Zu Guttenberg. (See pictures of the danger of printing money in Germany...
...officially billed as “Developing Social Confidence: Overcome Limiting Beliefs and Breaking Social Barriers.” The email advertising the event began: “Do you know how to make a good first impression? What about making a good impression to date a MOVIE STAR...
Elmo, arguably the most successful Sesame Street character in recent years - he has a vibrating doll, people - can do sarcasm and irony just as well as any British comedian. So when Ricky Gervais, creator and star of the U.K. version of The Office, showed up to perform with the furry little Muppet, he nearly met his match in hilarious banter...