Oct 29, 2009 -
Thu Oct 29, 12:28 PM PDT
Weeks after an Australian variety show made headlines around the world after a group of white performers donned blackface to perform as the Jackson brothers, Tyra Banks is making headlines herself for turning her latest "America's Next Top Model" candidates bi-racial for a photo shoot.
During Wednesday night's "ANTM" episode on The CW, Tyra took the remaining six young women of Cycle 13 to Hawaii, where she took pictures of the models after they were transformed into different races.
Tyra told bleach blonde Erin Wagner she was going to be "Tibetan, like the Dali Lama, and Egyptian"; Southern belle Laura Kirkpatrick was put into makeup to look "Mexican and Greek"; Jennifer An, who is Korean, was told she was going to be "Botswanan and Polynesian"; African-American Sundai Love was made to look "Moroccan and Russian"; redheaded Nicole Fox was "Malagasy and Japanese," while blonde Brittany Markert was put into makeup to look "Native American and East Indian."
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Sep 01, 2009 -
As Americans search for the cure to what ails our health-care system, we've overlooked an invaluable source of ideas and solutions: the rest of the world. All the other industrialized democracies have faced problems like ours, yet they've found ways to cover everybody -- and still spend far less than we do.
I've traveled the world from Oslo to Osaka to see how other developed democracies provide health care.
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Aug 27, 2009 -
Obama’s Civilian Troops Were Trained by Ayers
Obama's election and the health care reform push would have been impossible without the dumbing down of academia.
Mary Grabar earned her Ph.D. in English from the University of Georgia and teaches in the Atlanta area.
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Aug 11, 2009 -
Nothing goes better with an acoustic version of "Poker Face" than an elephant made of brown hair, which is perhaps why Lady Gaga wore just that atop her head on Japanese television recently. Bluesy piano music just doesn't have quite the same effect when, oh, sparklers are shooting out of the performer's boobs. But the elephant hairpiece wasn't nearly as delightful as Gaga's Kermit coat or her unicorn braid or her face mask.
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Jun 16, 2009 -
Obama Says U.S. Jobless Rate to Reach 10% This Year (Update1)
By Matthew Benjamin
June 16 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama said the U.S. unemployment rate will reach 10 percent this year, even as the economy begins to emerge from the recession.
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Jun 24, 2009 -
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/23/AR2009062303262.html
How do people justify these actions during a news conference? Do people still not realize that they are being manipulated and brain washed?
Stay Tuned for More of 'The Obama Show'
By Dana Milbank
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
In his first daytime news conference yesterday, President Obama preempted "All My Children," "Days of Our Lives" and "The Young and the Restless."
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Apr 26, 2009 -
Telling the Truth
Let the hearings begin!
by Noemie Emery
Some Democrats, from the White House on down, are pushing the idea of a "truth commission," à la South Africa, to deal with the "harsh measures" used by the Bush administration in interrogating al Qaeda detainees. Good.
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Dec 08, 2008 -
Name: Michael Sumner Georges Vartan
Birthrate: November 27, 1968
Birth place: Normandy, France
Residence: Los Angeles, California, America
Father: Eddie Vartan, a musician from Bulgaria who passed away in 2001
Mother: Doris Pucher, an artist and painter from Poland
Step-father: Ian La Frenais, a writer from England
Step-Brother: Nichols
Aunt: Sylvie Vartan, a pop singer from Bulgaria
Cousin: David Hallyday , a singer from France
Hair: light brown
Eyes: green, hazel
Height: 6’
Claim to Fame: Playing Sam Coulson in the 1999 film Never Been Kissed opposite Drew Barrymore
Trivia:
Michael is left-handed.
Michael is of Bulgarian, Hungarian and Polish descent.
Michael speaks both English and French fluently.
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Feb 23, 2009 -
PUBLIC POST
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Going wobbly in the West
By Mark Steyn
'It is hard to understand this deal," said Richard Holbrooke, President Obama's special envoy. And, if the special envoy of the so-called smartest and most impressive administration in living memory can't understand it, what chance do the rest of us have?
Nevertheless, let's try.
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Nov 06, 2007 -
Vanity Fair magazine - Nov 2007: Legends
Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg on the set of the movie Slogan, June 1968. By Gilles Caron/Contact Press Images.
The Secret World of Serge Gainsbourg
Sixteen years after Serge Gainsbourg's death, his small, graffiti-covered Paris house is almost exactly as he left it—crammed with mementos of his poetic, nicotine-and-alcohol-fueled, sometimes scandalous life as France's most adored singer-songwriter, lover of Jane Birkin and Brigitte Bardot, and friend to countless taxi drivers and policemen.
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