Nov 20, 2009 -
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This Week's Bidenisms
Collecting the vice president's gaffes and head-slappers.
By Jeremy StahlPosted Friday, Nov. 20, 2009, at 12:07 PM ET
The vice president did not produce any new Bidenisms this week, but we've dug one out of the archives in honor of his 67th birthday today.
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Oct 30, 2008 -
The super private Ashley Olsen showed up on 'Good Morning America' to promote her new coffee table book Influence which she co-wrote with sister Mary-Kate.
During the interview Ashley told Diane Sawyer that she's socially challenged and has a hard time with big groups and being in public in general.
She explains: "I'm really not great with crowds or big groups or public speaking.
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Nov 06, 2009 -
By Tim Nudd
In a 20/20 interview airing Friday, Rihanna offers a graphic account of the fateful Feb. 7 confrontation with her then-boyfriend Chris Brown – including the terrifying blankness that seemed to come over him as he assaulted her. She says all she kept thinking was, "When is it going to stop?
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Nov 05, 2009 -
By Michael Y. Park
Only after she had a revelation about her duty to her fans did Rihanna realize that she had to speak out about how she was a victim of ex-boyfriend Chris Brown's domestic abuse. And now?
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Nov 02, 2009 -
By Jessica Herndon
Nine months after her fight with Chris Brown, Rihanna finally opens up about the night that left her bruised and bloody. "This happened to me. … It can happen to anyone," the singer, 21, tells Diane Sawyer in an interview airing Thursday on Good Morning America and on 20/20 on Friday.
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Oct 26, 2009 -
Beauty Quotes and Proverbs
Doc Childre and Bruce Cryer, From Chaos to CoherenceAs any jazz musician knows, it takes flexibility and adaptability for improvisation to create beauty.Tara GradyA person is only beautiful, when their own beauty, is reflecting on to others.UnknownThose who look for beauty, find it.Margaret Wolfe HungerfordBeauty is in the eye of the beholder.Mary Baker EddyThe recipe for beauty is to have less illusion and more Soul, to retreat from the belief of pain or pleasure in the body into the unchanging calm and glorious freedom of spiritual harmony.Marlene Dietrich[The lover says:] How beautiful you are, now that you love me. VallyBeauty lies in the specific looks of a person, rather than the object, because different people feel beauty in differnt things.John ConstableThere is nothing ugly; I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may, -- light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful. Remy de GourmontThe ever-present phenomenon ceases to exist for our senses. It was a city dweller, or a prisoner, or a blind man suddenly given his sight, who first noted natural beauty.John Fitzgerald KennedyI look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty. Virginia WoolfThe beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder. Cliff RichardOnce in a lifetime a really beautiful song comes along ... Until it does, I'd like to do this one. ChazalThe beautiful remains so in ugly surroundings.Eleanor RooseveltThe future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.Lucille S.
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Oct 24, 2009 -
These days, political turmoil isn’t a one-way street.
President Obama’s mediocre approval ratings and the Democrats’ internal battling over the details of the health care reform plan are the obvious headline-grabbers, but the opposition party has troubles of its own.
Just 15% of Republicans who plan to vote in 2012 state primaries say the party’s representatives in Congress have done a good job of representing GOP values.
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Oct 24, 2009 -
Even before Barack Obama was elected to the presidency, Rupert Murdoch had declared war on him via the personalities of Fox News Channel, a subsidiary of Murdoch's media conglomerate, News Corp.
Since Obama's election, the cable channel's hosts and paid analysts have launched a full frontal assault on the president, smearing his nominees, calling him a racist and suggesting that his administration was trying to persuade disabled veterans to off themselves.
Now the fearmongers at Fox are crying foul since the president and his aides declared Fox not to be a news organization.
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Oct 21, 2009 -
House committee votes to repeal antitrust protections for health insurers
By Shailagh Murray
Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, October 21, 2009; 1:58 PM
The House Judiciary Committee voted Wednesday to strip federal antitrust protections shielding health insurers from investigations into price fixing and other business practices, the first step in a legislative bid to clamp down on the much-maligned industry.
Although Democrats have led the repeal push in recent weeks, the committee's 20-9 vote came with the support of three Republicans. The legislation would repeal portions of the 1945 McCarran-Ferguson Act that allows states to regulate health insurance providers without federal intervention.
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Oct 09, 2009 -
Following is a transcript of President Obama’s remarks in response to receiving the Nobel Peace Prize, as transcribed by CQ Transcriptions.
PRESIDENT OBAMA: Good morning.
Well, this is not how I expected to wake up this morning.
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