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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2009
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SURVEY SAYS

Women Hate on Their Bodies 36 Times a Day

Survey shows frequent negative thoughts about appearance

20 WHITE KITTENS

 Mariah's Latest Diva Demands 

Carey's latest appearance marked by more ridiculous requests

 Call-Girl Scientist's Dad:
 I Had 150 Hookers

Belle du Jour's father stunned by daughter's double life

 Couples Retreat Ad Sparks 
 Brit Race Brouhaha 

Black actors left off UK poster—but is US version any better?

Lea & Perrins Original Recipe Discovered

Find sheds light on Worcestershire's long-secret flavors

HAR, HAR, HAR

Octomom for 
Halloween: 
Preggo Nun 

And clever Suleman dressed octuplets
as little devils

 Teen 
 Angelina 
 Slept With 
 Mom's Beau 

Star stole mom's lover at age 16, says new book

DOTING DADDIES

 Pop: Lilo Could Be Dead in Year 

Lindsay Lohan probably wishes, as does the world, dad would stop talking

SLIDESHOW

 The Latest 
 From Paris: 
 12-Inch Heels 

Alexander McQueen creates a stir with his towering shoes

 Women on Pill 
 Shun 'Manly 
 Men' for 'Boys' 

With fertile days gone, women tend to like more feminine features, caring personalities

 Brad Bitches to 
 Jen About Angie 

Apparently, Pitt and Aniston are still meeting secretly to discuss Jolie problems

 Cleese 
 Hits Stage 
 to Fund 
 $20M Divorce 

Monty Python comedian John Cleese, still bitter, will stage one-man show

Knox Lied About Sex Murder Under Stress: Witness

Forty-hour interrogation disoriented suspect, neurologist testifies

New Op Turns Those Love Handles Into Fake Breasts

Resulting implants look and feel more natural

Guys, You Lie
a Lot More
Than Women

Men tell 6 fibs a day, study finds, and here are the most common...

Religious America Snubs Darwin Film: Producer

Brits 'can't imagine religion in America': Jeremy Thomas

Jade Goody's Widower Charged With Rape

Tweed has admitted alcohol abuse in dealing with reality star's death

Tongue-Tied Groom, Tickled Bride Storm YouTube

Hysterical wedding video attracts tens of thousands of views in just 2 days

 Paris Keeps 
 Cut Hair to 
 Dodge DNA 
 Testing 

Jackson's daughter gets haircut during retail therapy trip with grandmother

Cops Take Another Look at
Rolling Stone Jones' Death

Hundreds of pages of new evidence dug up by journalist

 Jilted by JFK, 
 Monroe Spiraled 
 to Her Death: Book 

Even pal, lover Frank Sinatra threw her out for taking pills

 Ryan Kept Me 
 From Farrah's 
 Deathbed: 
 'Secret Lover' 

'We were blind, crazy in love,' says ex–football player

 'Reborn' Jesus 
 Leads Vegans 
 in Russia 

Known as Vissarion, former traffic cop preaches against war



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Off the Grid a Michael Wolff Newser Column

Books Are Bad for You

11
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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