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What We Can Do for the Bottom 50%

A man looks through a trash dumpster on September 14, 2011 in New York City. New Census Bureau figures released today reveal that 3.08 million people in New York State were living in poverty in 2010, or 16 percent, up from 15.8 percent in 2009, Spencer Platt / Getty Images I agree with the main [...]

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What We Can Do for the Bottom 50%

A man looks through a trash dumpster on September 14, 2011 in New York City. New Census Bureau figures released today reveal that 3.08 million people in New York State were living in poverty in 2010, or 16 percent, up from 15.8 percent in 2009, Spencer Platt / Getty Images I agree with the main [...]

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What We Can Do for the Bottom 50%

A man looks through a trash dumpster on September 14, 2011 in New York City. New Census Bureau figures released today reveal that 3.08 million people in New York State were living in poverty in 2010, or 16 percent, up from 15.8 percent in 2009, Spencer Platt / Getty Images I agree with the main [...]

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Contested Convention Chaos

Balloons and confetti drop from the ceiling at the end of Republican U.S presidential nominee U.S. Sen. John McCain’s (R-AZ) speech on day four of the Republican National Convention (RNC) at the Xcel Energy Center on September 4, 2008 in St. Paul, Minnesota, Justin Sullivan / Getty Images A reader notes that if the GOP [...]

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Callista Speaks

Frequently seen, but rarely heard, Callista Gingrich made her first solo campaign appearance in her husband’s home state of Georgia Saturday, dipping a toe into the sometimes rough waters of life as a public campaign wife. Simultaneously the most silent and most discussed spouse on the 2012 campaign trail, she spoke to a group of [...]

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Confessions of a Celebrity Escort

After Scotty Bowers returned as a Marine from World War II, he started to work as a pimp to the stars. With his new memoir, Full Service, out this week, he tells Ramin Setoodeh about his gay flings with Cary Grant, Spencer Tracy, J. Edgar Hoover, and others. Scotty Bowers says that Spencer Tracy, like [...]

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Politicians’ Transportation Follies

Rick Santorum’s tax returns, released ahead of the crucial Michigan primary, showed a skeleton of sorts in his closet: to wit, an Audi in his garage. While Mitt Romney has also admitted to owning a foreign car in the past decade, either candidate could become the latest political figure to feel the heat for his [...]

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China, Trade Warrior

Members of the Guards of Honour of the Three Services of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army march during a training session at a barracks in Beijing on July 21, 2011, LIU JIN / AFP / Getty Images Mitt Romney in today’s Wall Street Journal takes a hard line on China: In the economic arena, we [...]

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Knox’s Next Legal Battle

The never-ending quest for the truth about the 2007 murder of British student Meredith Kercher in Perugia, Italy, is about to reach its final stage. Seattle native Amanda Knox may be a free woman today, but her legal woes are far from over.  Perugia prosecutors have filed their anticipated appeal of Knox and her former [...]

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Joan Rivers’s Ex-Manager Dishes

Sixty-year-old talent-maven Billy Sammeth managed both Joan Rivers and Cher for more than 20 years. He also has managed Olivia Newton-John and, during the early part of his career was the PR guy for the Osmonds. He still manages K.C. and the Sunshine Band. But Cher and Joan were his first-class Hollywood tickets, and when [...]

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Whitney’s No. 1 Hits

“Saving All My Love For You” (1985) Weeks at the top: 1 “How Will I Know” (1985) Weeks at the top: 2 “Greatest Love of All” (1986) Weeks at the top: 3 “I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)” (1987) Weeks at the top: 2 “Didn’t We Almost Have It All” (1987) Weeks at the top: 3 “So Emotional” [...]

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Is Prince Harry Out of Shape?

Puffing and red-faced, Prince Harry looked as if the late nights and his love of junk food might be taking a toll on his health yesterday, as his pulse rate soared while he walked slowly on a treadmill in simulated high altitude. Harry, who should be at the peak of his physical fitness after recently [...]

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