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Pro-Adultery Dating Site Offers Spokesman Gig to Cheating Chilean Miner

The saved Chilean miners are beginning to see offers that could make them rich, but one of these proposals is, given the circumstances, exceedingly apt. New York Post is reporting that Yonni Barrios — the miner who the world learned was... MORE >

By Nate Freeman | October 18, 2010 | 3:30 pm
Mr. Harman.

Newsweek Memo: Sidney Harman Says Both Sides Agreed to End Talks

Newsweek CEO Tom Ascheim and owner Sidney Harman sent the following memo to the magazine's staff this afternoon. They would like to save face after news earlier today that a deal between The Daily Beast and the magazine fell... MORE >

By Zeke Turner | October 18, 2010 | 3:13 pm
Can't we all just get along?

Will Bike Helmets Stop Bullets? Off-Duty Cop Tried to Find Out Saturday Night

The Observer warned of a brewing bike backlash, but who knew it would turn violent so... MORE >

By Matt Chaban | October 18, 2010 | 2:06 pm
Ms. Chapman, sexy spy.

Anna Chapman, Sexy Russian Spy, Honored at Kremlin

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev handed out top state honors to the ten spies who worked in the U.S. as undercover foreign intelligence agents, the New York Post reports. The ceremony would have been your average, run-of-the-mill award reception at... MORE >

By Nate Freeman | October 18, 2010 | 12:46 pm
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Tina Brown and IAC's Daily Beast Pull Out of Talks with Newsweek Over Governance Issues (Updated)

After more than eight weeks since an anonymous source told Fishbowl NY that Sidney Harman was trying to recruit Tina Brown to run Newsweek, the Wall Street Journal's Russel Adams is putting the story to rest. There won't be... MORE >

By Zeke Turner | October 18, 2010 | 12:42 pm
Picturesque sanatorium.

In Other News...: Anyone in the Market for a Prison?

- When asked about his relationship with Ed Westwick, Penn Badgley says flippantly, "We're not friends." Who are you Penn, Kelly... MORE >

By The Editors | October 18, 2010 | 12:42 pm
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Bloomberg Administration Eager To Be Insulted Online

The Bloomberg administration wants to dive into social media, even if it means being insulted on a more regular basis. Venture Beat scribe Jacob Brody got inside Bloomberg's monthly strategy session and captured an administration eager to capitalize on the... MORE >

By Ben Popper | October 18, 2010 | 12:38 pm
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D.C. Socialites Declare War on Michelle Obama

Michelle Obama will arrive in New York today for a private Democratic fund-raiser at the Upper West Side home of fashion designer Donna Karan and then head to Broadway's St. James Theater where actress Sarah Jessica Parker will serve... MORE >

By Irina Aleksander | October 18, 2010 | 12:32 pm
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Jake Tapper Signs With Little, Brown for Afghanistan Book

Publisher's Marketplace reports that ABC White House correspondent Jake Tapper has signed with Little Brown to write a book about a battle in Afghanistan. The book is tentatively titled Enemy in the Wire, and the deal is reportedly worth a... MORE >

By Dan Duray | October 18, 2010 | 12:12 pm
Roadrte sisters

Today in Fashion: Scrawny Man is Out; D&G's Tax Problems

The male ideal in fashion and advertising has returned to a more traditional masculine look: "The twink thing seems over," said Jim Nelson, the editor of GQ. [Times... MORE >

By Irina Aleksander | October 18, 2010 | 11:18 am

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Salon 2.0: Baby Hackers Gorge on Twizzlers and Red Bull, Coding Till the Sun Comes Up

When he's in front of people, Ian Jennings Jablonowski, the 20-year-old hacker from New Brunswick, stands over his laptop like a DJ at a...

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New York, Nashville, Addis Ababa: Dinaw Mengestu's Hero Wanders...

Interstate 74 connects the Midwestern United States with the South, running for about 450 miles from Iowa to North Carolina. In Peoria, Ill., I-74...

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The Class Wounds of a Jewish Upstart

The Social Network is many things, but mainly it is a dazzling polemic. Screenwriter Aaron Sorkin and director David Fincher have performed an ingenious...

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Curtains in Coney Island

The long-murmured auguries of demolition on Surf Avenue had all but taken on the air of ritual, each new summer washing up like a...

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Internal Memo: Eliot Spitzer

Well, it looks like this TV thing might not work out. So far we've been called "icky," "obnoxious," "wonky," "stodgy," "strange," "too polite," "lackluster,"...

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