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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2009
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Poll Numbers

Public Backs Afghan Troop Surge 47%-43%

....and majority support holding off on decision until after runoff

secret weapon

 Michelle Pushes 
 for Health Reform 

First lady makes case for overhaul in  personal terms

Missing Girl's Body Found
in Ga. Landfill

7-year-old Somer Thompson vanished
on Monday

WATCH IT

 Balloon Boy  
 Throws Up 
 on Today, 
 GMA
, as Dad 
 Denies Hoax 

Falcon Heene vomits twice on-air during morning show rounds



 Sperm Bank 
 Offers Celeb 
 Lookalikes 

Calif. firm features donors who look like Ben Affleck, Seth Rogen

INTERVIEW



 I'm Not 
 Marginalized, 
 I Delegate: 
 Clinton 

Obama's Peace Prize is deserved, but won't sway war policy, she says

Interview

 Rush: I'm Not a 
 Right-Wing 
 Monster 

Limbaugh says he's mostly kidding, screwing with media

 Ahmadinejad 
 Rips Israel, 
 US, as Usual, 
 in UN Speech 

American, other delegations walk out of Iranian president's speech

UPDATED

Student Named as Suspect in Yale Homicide

Has defensive wounds, failed polygraph test; may not be fellow Yalie

In War on STDs, NC Tries New Weapon: Bribery

Syphilis outbreak sparks offer of gift card in exchange for test

 More Sex and the City 2 
 Secrets Spill 

Gay wedding, minor role for Miley

 Script Slip 
 Allows Peek at 
 Sex and the City 2 

Page carried by Kim Cattrall photographed

 Levi Johnston's 
 New Gig: Vanity Fair Writer 

No word on what it's about, but Sarah Palin will likely not be pleased

 Coroner Confirms 
 Jackson's Death 
 Was Homicide 

Two sedatives blamed for entertainer's demise

 Crist Names Aide to Senate 

LeMieux is the Florida governor's former chief of staff

 'Real' Model: I 
 Didn't Like the Pic 

But even though it's
'not the most flattering,' it is 'real'

GOSSIP ROUNDUP

 Fiore Beau 
 'Happy' Jenkins Is Dead 

Plus, Fergie and the Prince are together again, sorta

4 GIs Charged With Hazing Suicide Soldier

Ashamed private
later shot himself
in portable toilet

 Brad Pitt for Mayor? 
 'I Don't Have a Chance'

But no, he's not running for mayor


 Aww, Kate 
 Still Loves 
 'the Jon I 
 Knew' 

And the kids don't really know what's going on yet



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Off the Grid a Michael Wolff Newser Column

Galleon Scandal: Shocked, Shocked by Insider Trading

5
Nov 6, 09 | 9:26 AM BY Michael Wolff

How is it that we get a major insider trading scandal every two decades or so? The last big one, which ultimately ensnarled Michael Milken, the legendary junk bond king, happened in the late eighties. The current one, with a mass of arrests yesterday, threatens the hedge fund industry. It seems reasonable to assume from the intermittent decades of prosecution that this particular sort of financial larceny is quite a rare bird and when it rears its head the Feds pounce.... More »

Rupert Murdoch Is Mad but Cute

9
Nov 5, 09 | 8:41 AM BY Michael Wolff

The Wall Street Journal was a great paper. It is still a pretty great paper but it is not the great Wall Street Journal.... More »

Skype Lives!

15
Nov 4, 09 | 8:33 AM BY Michael Wolff

I follow entrepreneurial dramas the way other people follow sports (did somebody win the World Series?). In these comedies, tragedies,... More »

Why the GOP Will Rise Again

24
Nov 3, 09 | 9:11 AM BY Michael Wolff

The strange business that is going on in New York’s 23rd Congressional District, which occupies some other universe than the one... More »

Sarah Palin and Levi Johnston: How They Took America

20
Nov 2, 09 | 8:40 AM BY Michael Wolff

Of all the outcomes of the 2008 presidential election, the strangest, beyond the rise of Sarah Palin herself, is the success of Levi Johnston.... More »

Why the Media Is Taking So Long to Die

17
Oct 30, 09 | 9:21 AM BY Michael Wolff

I participated the other night in an oddly formal, anglophilic, Oxford-style, for-and-against-the-proposition debate on the topic of (you... More »

How the Internet Got Lost and Why Google’s GPS Won’t Show Us the Way Out

11
Oct 29, 09 | 8:58 AM BY Michael Wolff

I had lunch yesterday with my old friend and former colleague, Chip Bayers, who, 15 years ago this week, after having left my fledgling... More »

Pot Will Save Us

39
Oct 28, 09 | 11:10 AM BY Michael Wolff

Wow. Pot. Just like that, on its way to being legalized. Well, just like that after 50 years or so. In order to save itself from financial... More »

Is Obama a Sleaze?

31
Oct 27, 09 | 8:58 AM BY Michael Wolff

So it turns out there’s a reason the president hasn’t wrapped up health care or Iraq, figured out Afghanistan, closed Guantanamo,... More »

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