Jun 22, 2009 -
It's hard to imagine calling a woman who once said "man-pleasing gets results" a feminist, but Helen Gurley Brown has had the word attached to her bra strap since Sex and the Single Girl published in 1962. In April, a biography on her, Bad Girls Go Everywhere, hit the shelves to solidify her place as a feminist icon, raising more than one eyebrow across the blogosphere.
So she doesn't have the intellectual clout of a Naomi Wolf, but what she did have — for 32 years — was the ear of the everyday woman.
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Apr 18, 2008 -
- Pope Meets Victims: Pope Benedict XVI came face to face yesterday with a scandal that haunts the American Catholic Church by holding an unannounced meeting with several victims of sexual abuse by priests. The cardinal who organized and attended the meeting, gave the pope a list of about 1,000 boys and girls who had been abused in the Boston Archdiocese in the past several decades. The Pope requested the meeting, praying and speaking personally with each person in attendance.
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Feb 09, 2009 -
I'm sure you've all heard by now that Chris Brown was involved in the assault of an unidentified woman last night. While we wait for the facts to trickle in, people are speculating that the victim is Chris's girlfriend Rihanna. Since that has yet to be proven, we can just hope this was all a misunderstanding.
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Nov 05, 2009 -
- Fans celebrated after the Yankees won their 27th World Series last night, beating the Phillies seven to three in game six. — New York Post
- The UN is relocating 600 of its staff members in Afghanistan after the workers there suffered an attack by the Taliban. — AP
- Rihanna told Diane Sawyer that it was a mistake to go back to Chris Brown after he beat her.
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Nov 03, 2009 -
"This happened to me. . .
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Oct 30, 2009 -
I caught the end of Shopgirl the other night and watched it with one eye open, preparing to wince while old Steve Martin hits on 20-something Claire Danes. But in 1968, the brown-haired and side-burned Martin wasn't only a college student, he was best known as bachelor #2 on The Dating Game.
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Sep 16, 2009 -
On Saturday, Republican State Senator Scott Brown of Massachusetts announced his candidacy for the US Senate, desiring to fill in the spot left open by Senator Edward Kennedy's passing. He is branding himself as a fiscal conservative and Washington outsider.
But as political blog Wonkette uncovered in 2007, Senator Brown had a nude centerfold spread in a 1982 issue of Cosmopolitan magazine when he was 22.
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