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Meghan McCain, I was so wrong about you. Just a little more than a year ago, during her father’s failed campaign for president, I wrote a piece for Slate about how McCain had learned to cannily manipulate her very blond public image to its full advantage while still maintaining a modicum of privacy. I even called her shrewd. That was before she ...
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Social networking sites have always been a little bit about voyeurism, maybe more so than about networking. I joined Facebook in its earliest days, in the spring of 2004, as a freshman in college. No one using it then realized that it was going to be a Silicon Valley juggernaut; we were delighted for an easy way to find out more about that dreamy ...
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We are, it seems, the only species who has this protracted
adolescence—even apes get to dodge it. Is this the excuse we've all
been looking for to justify our collective obsession with teen culture? ... (Read more in DoubleX.)
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The NYT’s Arts Beat blog reported this morning that Allison Silverman, the executive producer of The Colbert Report, is stepping down from her post, apparently rather suddenly, at the start the show's three-week vacation. The Times
cites a source as saying that, more or less, Silverman is burned out by
the unforgiving schedule of putting ...
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At an event on Monday in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a young man asked
Hillary Clinton what ''Mr. Clinton'' thought about a potential loan from
China to the financially strapped country. She paused, amazed, and
replied: ''You want me to tell you what my husband thinks? My husband is
not secretary of state, I am. If you want my ...
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Is Kate Middleton Britain’s Henry Louis Gates? That is to say: Is she a
public figure whose personal upheaval has lately sparked a national
conversation over deeply ingrained prejudices? That’s the theory bubbling beneath this Washington Post piece parsing the recent uproar over Middleton’s uncle, Gary Goldsmith, who was caught on tape prepping ...
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Obama 2012 watchers are all aflutter over yesterday’s news that the president’s approval rating in bellwether swing state Ohio has dipped to just 49%, down from 62% in May ... (Read more at DoubleX.com.)
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Has J. Crew pushed the boundaries of their symbiotic Obama relationship a little too far? Politico posted an item
disclosing a press release the retailer sent to reporters yesterday,
advertising the fact that Sasha and Malia Obama have been spotted out
and about in J. Crew wares. Specifically, if you must know ... (Read more at DoubleX.com.)
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I sure have. We all know how we're supposed to apportion our budget (10 percent into savings, no more than 30 percent towards housing, etc.), but how many of us really stick to that? And when we veer off course, what are the sirens pulling us away? I spend too much on cabs and Greek yogurt, for instance. This Mother Teresa figure drops $650 on ...
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Oprah started twittering this morning, in what might become the ultimate realization of the personal branding medium. Just one hour after her first tweet (''HI TWITTERS . THANK YOU FOR A WARM WELCOME. FEELING REALLY 21st CENTURY ) she's approaching 100,000 followers-and gained about a thousand in the two minutes that I clicked away from her page ...