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Britney seems to have discovered that motherhood and applepie is not as fun as singlehood and panty-less partying with Paris Hilton. The two girls are learning to upstage even Madonna, the mother of all self-promotion. It is fascinating to watch how newspapers all over the world are covering the two little Lolitas from the United States as if they had no one in their own country to talk about. Here are Britney’s holiday wishes for the world, found on britneyspears.com.A Holiday Card from Britney Spears
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When Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes failed to give the press a photo of their newborn child for six months, the tabloids started to accuse the couple of simply making up their baby story to create publicity. Here is a picture of their little girl, Suri, from yesterday’s TomKat star wedding in Italy, which moves me to exclaim: Oh, she definitely has the eyes of the father!TomKat’s Wedding Picture
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Murdoch believes in family values. That’s why he married three times. In a recent profile in the New Yorker (October 16, 2006) he explained. “I am a radical in the sense of supporting change… I also believe in free markets and family values—in a low-key way. I am not one to preach about it, having been married three times. But I really believe that the family is the basis of society.”Rupert Murdoch’s Family Values
Rupert, you are too modest. It makes perfect sense that if you really value families, you feel a moral imperative to create more than one! And why would a radical believer in change not exchange the wife once in a while. After all, a mariage market can only function efficiently if there is some trading going on!
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Older men and younger women - an age-old story. But an 89-year-old rolling into a strip club on a wheelchair and later marrying the stripper takes this idea to a whole new level. The Economist reports on what happened next. THE words “probate exception” do not titillate. And yet a saucy, decade-long legal battle over a fortune of nearly half a billion dollars hinges on this clause, which deals with the boundaries between state and federal courts in estate disputes. At issue is whether Vickie Lynn Marshall, a former Playboy pin-up and exotic dancer better known as Anna Nicole Smith, will get anything from the estate of her late husband, J. Howard Marshall, an oil tycoon with assets estimated at $1.6 billion. On May 1st, Ms Smith won an important victory. Although her inheritance remains uncertain, the United States Supreme Court (no less) unanimously ruled that she could pursue her case in federal court. One suspects the justices were enjoying themselves, for once.Supreme Court Deals with Greed, Sex and Deception
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As far as I am concerned Mark Singer won this pairing hands down. The story gets particularly funny at the end. Singer writes: Never having met Timothy O’Brien, the Times reporter who finds himself on the receiving end of a five-billion-dollar libel-and-defamation suit from Donald Trump, I don’t presume to know whether he’s having fun yet. But I doubt that I’m alone among members of the Fourth Estate in experiencing a twinge of envy. Talk about pennies from Heaven! Overnight, sales of O’Brien’s book “TrumpNation,” the vivisection of the alleged mogul which prompted the litigation, moved it from 123,329 to 466 in the Amazon.com rankings.Donald Trump vs. Mark Singer
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The shooting was fertile ground for Jon Stewart, the host of “The Comedy Central on Cheney’s Hunting Mishap
Daily Show,” the popular fake news program on Comedy Central. On
Monday night one of the show’s correspondents, Rob Corddry, introduced
as a “vice-presidential firearms mishap analyst,” said that “according
to the best intelligence available, there were quail hidden in the
brush,” and “everyone believed there were quail in the brush,” and
“while the quail turned out to be a 78-year-old man, even knowing that
today, Mr. Cheney insists he would still have shot Mr. Whittington in
the face.”
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