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Bruni Nudie Yanked From Sale After Flat Bids

Offers for photo fail to reach auction reserve price

'EPITOMY OF CONSERVATIVENESS'

 What Is it 
 About Palin? 
 Hard to Say 

'Issues? Where are you going with that?' fan asks interviewer

Chinese Drywall
Linked to Toxic Fumes

Homeowners told to spend more time outdoors

 Blackwater Waging 
 'Secret War' 
 in Pakistan 

Mercenaries doing CIA dirty work, plotting killings

NO LESBIANS HERE

 Glammed Up 
 U B'Ball Stars 
 Spark Uproar 

Marketing Florida State players smacks of homophobia

Pulp Fiction
Writer 'Tweets'
Prison Horrors

Gritty details linked to convict Roger Avary

OPINION

 Race-Speech Obama is MIA 

Prez actions failing to match his clear rhetoric of past

 Gold Mine Scamster
Rips Off Couple for $5M

Fraudster spent elderly couple's cash on oxygen chamber

 Minneapolis Terror 
 Recruiters Charged 

Gang accused of wooing US-Somalis for 'fun, friendship'

 No DUI 
 Charge for 
 Kerry Daughter 

LA officials cite lack of evidence against Alexandra Kerry, 36

NO DIMON IN THIS ROUGH

Bloggers on JPMorgan Chase CEO Replacing Geithner: Nah

Jamie Dimon not in tune with Obama, too invested in big banks

DAVID FRUM

 Pundits Lie, Numbers Don't: 
 Women Despise Palin 

Frum: So stop telling us how popular she is with 'the people'

FORT HOOD SHOOTING

 Hasan May 
 Plead Insanity: Lawyer  

Not-guilty plea likely in Fort Hood shooting

Startled Snake Horks Up
New Chameleon Species

British scientist startled reptile before it could digest dinner

 At Last, Collider Gets 
 Atoms Smashing 

First proton beams collide in huge contraption

Domestic Violence Linked to Football Upsets

Local-team upsets match to an 8% upswing in abuse

safety alert

 Millions of Cribs Recalled 

Manufacturer, CPSC advise parents to stop using beds immediately

 Salvation Army Takes Plastic 

Charity tests 'cashless kettle' program

Home Daycare Turns Kids Into Couch Potatoes

Child-care centers do far better at restricting boob tube time

 Paula Deen Takes 
 a Ham to the Face 

Food Network star shakes off run-in with holiday meat

Call-In Show Lets Iraqis Grill Their Leaders

Popular program cuts red tape, gets results, frightens politicians

 Experts Slam Levi's 
 Hairy Pits 

Critics weigh in on Johnston's modeling debut

 Online Gamers 
 a Cash Crop 
 for FarmVille 

Nonviolent, social game spreads like wildfire on Facebook



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Off the Grid a Michael Wolff Newser Column

Books Are Bad for You

16
Nov 23, 09 | 8:41 AM BY Michael Wolff

A few years ago, writing about the book business and how dumbed down and craven books had become—and pathetic, designed only to sell and then not selling—I wrote the line “books suck,” subjecting me to much middlebrow opprobrium. I’d like to revise that line: Books are evil. They’re pernicious. They represent themselves as being one thing, when they’re insidiously the opposite. Sarah Palin, for instance, did not write her... More »

The Health-Care Wars Have Just Begun

11
Nov 20, 09 | 8:32 AM BY Michael Wolff

My 84-year-old mother was full of venomous indignation at dinner last night over the great mammogram take-back. Bureaucrats, in her view,... More »

Sarah Palin Deserves Some More Attention

17
Nov 19, 09 | 10:14 AM BY Michael Wolff

This is a phenomenon that just keeps giving. Its very lack of explanation, and ensuing incredulity and apoplexy, propel it. There... More »

And We Thought We Hated Mammograms

8
Nov 18, 09 | 2:40 PM BY Caroline Miller

No one likes to get a mammogram. Still, it’s hard to find a woman anywhere who was pleased to hear the new ruling that... More »

China and the Obese: The President Meets His Greatest Problems

12
Nov 18, 09 | 8:43 AM BY Michael Wolff

For all sorts of obvious reasons, it seems like a greatly unacceptable and possibly discriminatory thing to say that the obese are a lot... More »

Rupert Murdoch’s Guy Gets It

7
Nov 17, 09 | 6:50 AM BY Michael Wolff

If Arthur Miller were at it again, he’d call the play Death of a PR Guy. Gary Ginsberg, Murdoch’s PR guy who got... More »

Obama's Secret Weapon: The Hug

4
Nov 16, 09 | 12:30 PM BY Lewis Grossberger

President Obama needs to get the hell out of China as fast as he can, rush back to America and start hugging Republicans. This will... More »

The President Wants You to Know He’s Too Dopey to Use Twitter

19
Nov 16, 09 | 8:01 AM BY Michael Wolff

“First of all, let me say that I have never used Twitter. I notice that young people—you know, they’re very busy with... More »

Does Warren Buffett Know What He’s Talking About?

10
Nov 13, 09 | 6:55 AM BY Michael Wolff

Nobody I know who is smart and rich (albeit much less rich than they used to be) thinks the economy is patched up and ready to roll—except,... More »

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