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yale's annual list

 The Year's 10 Best Quotes 

Health care inspires top pick; iPhone slogan makes the list

Dec 16, 09 5:26 PM CST
LOOKING AT YOU, KARDASHIANS

 Overexposed in 2009 

We'd like to see less of these people in 2010

Dec 8, 09 7:07 PM CST
decade in review

 Top Cultural Game-Changers 

What will we still be talking about next decade? Britney, for one

Dec 7, 09 2:11 PM CST

 Beyoncé Leads Grammy Pack 

She nabs 10 nominations, Swift gets 8

Dec 3, 09 5:15 AM CST
KANYE-TAYLOR REUNION?

 How to Freshen Up the Grammy Awards

Getting rid of the polka category was good, but more should be done

Dec 2, 09 11:00 AM CST

 Greatest Albums of the Decade 

From Radiohead to Bon Iver, Paste hits the highlights

Nov 3, 09 11:15 AM CST
DEAD HORSE RIDES AGAIN

 Kanye Cameo Likely 
 During Swift's SNL Gig 


Oct 26, 09 8:40 PM CDT

 Kanye Lives!  And So Do 
 These Other Hoaxed Celebs 

Fake rumors of celebrity death from Kanye West to Frank Sinatra

Oct 22, 09 4:26 AM CDT
WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE?

 Kanye Exorcises Demons 
 in Short Jonze Film 

Clip, briefly on rapper's site, includes projectile vomiting, cutting himself open

Oct 19, 09 9:49 PM CDT

 West-Gaga Tour Canceled 

No word on what killed the 'Fame Kills' partnership

Oct 1, 09 7:38 PM CDT

 WWE Offers 
 Kanye $10M to 
 Get Into Ring 

West would have to do some 'light wrestling,' sources say

Sep 21, 09 10:23 PM CDT

 Maybe Obama's 'Half-White 
 Side' Is Racist: Limbaugh 

Also, president's media 'lust' is Castroesque

Sep 16, 09 12:08 PM CDT

 Kanye Calls  
 Taylor to Apologize 

Rapper reaches out after Swift's appearance on The View

Sep 15, 09 3:09 PM CDT
music review

 Kid Cudi's Debut 
 'Ridiculously 
 Intriguing' 

Rap's up-and-coming name follows in the footsteps of Kanye West, Andre 3000

Sep 15, 09 1:42 PM CDT
OPINION

 Brooks: Humility Is Dead 

Kanye, Joe Wilson lead age of attention-seeking

Sep 15, 09 10:45 AM CDT
REVIEW ROUND-UP

 New Leno Show 
 Numbingly 
 (or Pleasantly) 
 Familiar 

It's pretty much the Tonight Show in a new time slot

Sep 15, 09 6:29 AM CDT

 Obama: Kanye's a 'Jackass' 

Off-the-record remark gets on Twitter; rest is history

Sep 14, 09 10:41 PM CDT

Kanye's Latest Apology Spices Up Leno Debut

'It was rude, period,' says rapper, who asked for chance to speak on Jay's new show

Sep 14, 09 9:57 PM CDT

 Ten Pre-Kanye Stage Rushes 

West even makes the list with a pre-Taylor Swift intrusion

Sep 14, 09 1:25 PM CDT
OPINION

 Kanye's Tantrum Smells Staged 

VMA debacle with Taylor Swift 'merely a way to distract' from MTV's lacking lineup

Sep 14, 09 9:10 AM CDT

 Kanye Wigs Out 
 During Taylor's 
 MTV Award 

'I'm sooooo sorry,' he writes on blog after crazy rant

Sep 14, 09 3:15 AM CDT

 Rihanna 
 Joins 
 Jay-Z 
 on Stage 

9/11 benefit marks her first live show since Chris Brown assault

Sep 12, 09 8:33 AM CDT

LeBron Doc Soundtrack Lands Some Heavy Hitters

Eminem, Kanye West join Drake, Lil Wayne

Aug 26, 09 8:47 PM CDT

 Jay-Z, Rihanna, Kanye 
 Take on the Apocalypse

Three of hip-hop's biggest team up in video for new single

Aug 20, 09 2:06 PM CDT


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Off the Grid a Michael Wolff Newser Column

Berlusconi Strikes Back

7
Dec 17, 09 | 9:20 AM BY Michael Wolff

Some people have all the luck. Or, some people, familiar with adversity and reversals of fortune, know merely to wait until someone else hands you a trump card. Silvio Berlusconi, struck rudely and brutally in the face with a souvenir statue, is turning the tables on his critics. All Silvio bashing is now the work of anti-social elements. With his huge fortune and control of his country’s media monopoly, not to mention his political charm and acumen, Berlusconi... More »

Is Tiger Woods Good or Bad for You?

8
Dec 16, 09 | 8:18 AM BY Michael Wolff

There is a more and more insistent question being asked by right-thinking people about why we dwell so obsessively on the domestic problems... More »

Joe Lieberman Is a Piece of Work

16
Dec 15, 09 | 10:37 AM BY Michael Wolff

What’s Joe Lieberman’s game? Or, what do you do when you’re cut loose from colleagues, standing, and future? ... More »

How Much Is This Post Worth?

11
Dec 14, 09 | 9:22 AM BY Michael Wolff

Jason Calacanis, one of the longest-lasting web entrepreneurs, has made an interesting proposal to Newser, among others. He wants Newser,... More »

Peace Prize: President Says Piss Off   

24
Dec 11, 09 | 10:51 AM BY Michael Wolff

The president accepted his Peace Prize by arguing for war . It had really seemed like he would need to thread a needle in Oslo, having... More »

I’m Glad a Bonus Is Not My Problem

8
Dec 10, 09 | 8:36 AM BY Michael Wolff

If you are the manager of a Wall Street firm, or one of its communications advisers, what you are thinking about right now is this: How... More »

Why Tiger Woods Prefers Blondes

36
Dec 9, 09 | 9:51 AM BY Michael Wolff

Here is the dumbest newspaper article I’ve read in quite a long time. I mean dumb not just in the sense of failing to understand... More »

Amanda Is America

29
Dec 8, 09 | 9:26 AM BY Michael Wolff

Not too long ago, Amanda Knox, convicted the other day in Italy of murdering her junior-year-abroad roommate, Meredith Kercher, was... More »

Climate Change: How Come US Newspapers Don’t Like This Issue?

14
Dec 7, 09 | 9:45 AM BY Michael Wolff

My friend Ian Katz, a senior editorial figure at the Guardian newspaper in London, and a prime mover of an initiative to create... More »

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