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...news of Michael Jackson's sudden death dominated Friday morning television programs in Japan, Tokyo music stores didn't miss a beat. The singer's death has already spurred album sales worldwide. The HMV display was hastily set up in the Summer Sale section with more than ten of Jackson Five and Michael Jackson solo albums. A sign read: "MICHAEL IS FOREVER. R.I.P. JACKO." (See Michael Jackson's top 10 songs...
...Ten of the 13 correspondents who asked the President a question quickly barked follow-ups, repeatedly insisting that the President respond to their queries. Two veterans of the briefing room, Politico's Mike Allen and Hearst's Helen Thomas, shouted questions to the President out of order, which he did not answer (and did not appear to appreciate). And ABC News' Jake Tapper compared the President to the Star Trek character Spock...
...wasn't always a writer. When I went to college and majored in fine arts, I was a painter. Then I was a stay-at-home mom. Somewhere along the line, I realized that I liked telling stories, and I decided that I would try writing. Ten years later, I finally got a book published. It was hard. I had no skills. I knew nothing about the business of getting published. So I had to keep working...
...RESIGNED Ten days after being named Oxford University's first female professor of poetry, Ruth Padel, 63, resigned, saying she'd "naively" told reporters about sexual-misconduct allegations facing Derek Walcott, her rival for the post...
...after four straight months of record highs. The rate, though, was still 40% higher than a year before, and credit-card charge-offs which happen when a lender gives up on ever being repaid did continue to rise. Fitch analysts have anticipated that eventually one out of every ten dollars in credit-card debt will be written off this way, although the drop in delinquencies may indicate that people are getting a handle on their finances more quickly than expected. (Read "Financial Woes Spread to Smaller Banks...