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Obama honours Holbrooke as ‘hardheaded’ and ‘clear-eyed’

barack-obama-2US President Barack Obama and other American dignitaries celebrated the life of late diplomat Richard Holbrooke Friday, honouring his endless determination to make the world a better place. Hundreds turned out at the John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington to attend the memorial service for Holbrooke, who died suddenly in December [...]

Prince William Kate Middleton Comic Book “Fame: The Royals”

Wills & Kate: Now a comic book! Bluewater Productions — the company responsible for graphic novels about pop stars such as Justin Bieber, Beyonce, and Lady Gaga — is publishing an account of the romance and engagement of royal couple Prince William and Kate Middleton in a new biographical comic book. Fame: The Royals, a [...]

Bill Clinton Pamela Anderson PETA Person Of The Year 2010

Pamela Anderson: ’90s Sex Symbol, Eternal Friend to the Animals. On Friday, the former Baywatch babe was honored for her tireless efforts to end animal cruelty when she was named People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals’ (PETA) 2010 Person of the Year. The announcement comes on the heels of reports that a second PETA [...]

Clinton and I are buddies, says George W. Bush

It seems that despite political differences, Former US Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush share a good relationship. In an interview with George W. Bush and his brother, Jeb on CNN, host Candy Crowley, had a little fun with the Bush-Clinton relationship, reports the Politico. “Your father, 41, has said that he looks at [...]

Sean Penn”s charity receives cash boost from Bill Clinton

Sean Penn”s charity efforts in Haiti have got a major boost with former U.S. President Bill Clinton donating 334,000 pounds to the actor”s cause. ”The Milk” star founded the J/P HRO Haitian Relief Organization in the wake of the January (10) earthquake and has spent months helping to rebuild the Caribbean nation. The Clinton Foundation”s [...]

Bill Clinton Opera

Even tawdry tales of sex in The Oval Office and trout-pouted interns with alterior motives take on new life to the sound of music! The Life & Time of William Jefferson Clinton is on its way to a theater near you — in opera form.On Monday, strapping young men from all over the Great State of [...]

Bill Clinton On “The Daily Show” Sept. 16

Former President Bill Clinton will make his sixth appearance on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart on Thursday, where he is expected to talk about the Clinton Global Initiative. This annual meeting convenes world leaders to grapple with pressing global concerns. This year’s gathering is scheduled to take place Sept. 20-23 in New York City. If you’re [...]

Blair and his “key role” in NATO bombing

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has stated that he played a key role in NATO’s bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999. Blair said that he insisted on a military solution to the point where it out a lot of pressure on his personal relationship with then U.S. President Bill Clinton.

Corporate profitability: Profits, but no jobs

How long can corporate America’s profit rebound continue?

AMERICANS used to love to hear tales of success in business. One of the many oddities of the current joyless economic recovery is that this traditional enthusiasm is strikingly lacking. Corporate America has bounced back impressively. The quarterly results season that is now nearly over has revealed that profits are back within a whisker of the all-time highs achieved before the downturn in late 2008. By some calculations, the rate of recovery of profits from their trough is the strongest since the end of the Great Depression.

Yet nobody seems pleased. Not investors, who have failed to push up share prices in the way this sort of earnings growth would have caused them to do at this stage of previous economic cycles. Certainly not politicians, who complain that firms are “hoarding” cash and creating hardly any new jobs. As Robert Reich, an economist at Berkeley and former labour secretary under Bill Clinton, puts it: “Bottom line: higher corporate profits no longer lead to higher employment. We’re witnessing a great decoupling of company profits from jobs.” …

Chelsea Clinton Wedding Pictures

Chelsea Clinton Wedding Picture One of the nation’s favorite former First Daughters is now a missus. Chelsea Clinton’s longtime beau officially “Put a Ring on It” in a Saturday afternoon ceremony at the Astor Courts in Upstate New York. And pictures of the wedding are slowly making their way onto the Net.Chelsea — the daughter [...]

Chelsea Clinton Wedding Details Leaked

Former President Bill and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s only daughter will be married this weekend in picturesque Rhinebeck, a postcard-worthy New York village that will serve as host of what many have dubbed America’s royal wedding.While wedding plans have remained top secret, but the recent presence of US Secret Service agents in the town [...]

Chelsea Clinton Wedding Guestlist Includes Oprah & The Obamas

President Barack Obama and First Lady and talk show magnate Oprah Winfrey are among 500 people who have reportedly been invited to hobnob at the nups of former First Daughter Chelsea Clinton later this month.The invited celebrity guest list also includes singer-actress-director Barbra Streisand, former British Prime Minister John Major, filmmaker Steven Spielberg and wife [...]

Chelsea Clinton Wedding Details Revealed!

Mark your calendars, Crunchers: We’ve been invited to a summer wedding! Well…we haven’t actually been invited, but we’ve got the inside scoop on the season’s most anticipated nups nonetheless. New York Magazine’s Doree Shafrir is dishing the top secret deets on former First Daughter Chelsea Clinton’s wedding.Chelsea and longtime boyfriend Mark Mezvinsky will wed in [...]

Anne Hathaway makes no claim over former conman lover’s gifts

Actress Anne Hathaway has made no claim over the gifts she received from her ex-boyfriend/scam-artist Raffaello Follieri.
The stunner, 27, had until February to file a petition asserting ownership of her gifts from con man Follieri, but neither she nor any other “third parties” have staked a claim, prosecutors claimed.
In August 20008, the actress coughed up [...]

TIME Magazine 100 Most Influential People In The World 2010

“As Rachel Berry on the hit TV show Glee, she is inspiring young people to get involved in musical programs in schools and encouraging communities to fund them,” Aussie songbird Olivia Newton-John about actress Lea Michele, the 24-year-old Broadway baby wowing audience each week on the FOX musical Glee.It’s all a part of TIME Magazine’s [...]

Even Clinton Slams Clinton Retreads: Summers and Rubin Must Go

Larry Summers and Robert Rubin served as Secretaries of the Treasury under Bill Clinton (Rubin between January 11, 1995 – July 2, 1999, and Summers between July 2, 1999 – January 20, 2001).Both conservatives and liberals alike have called Summers a…

People of India anxious to see Obama soon: Manmohan

As US President Barack Obama prepares to visit India later this year, possibly in the next three months, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Sunday said he has fired the imagination of the people of India who are anxious to see him soon.
“He (Obama) has caught the imagination of millions of people in the world, including in [...]

Liz Hurley says she’s attracted to powerful politicians

Elizabeth Hurley has revealed that she has a secret fetish for powerful politicians.
The ‘Austin Powers’ star has confessed that she lusts after world leaders including former U.S. President Bill Clinton and ex-Prime Minister John Major.
She also has a crush on the opposition leader David Cameron and said that she has even dined with the [...]

Schumpeter: The health-care squeeze

Business is right to be scared by the costs of Obamacare

Correction to this article

“IT MAY not happen in my lifetime,” Bill Clinton joked about Barack Obama’s mammoth health-care bill a few days ago, “or Dick Cheney’s, but hopefully by Easter.” The joke proved prescient: Congress passed the bill the very next day and the president signed it on March 23rd. …

Tiger Woods “South Park” Spoof VIDEO

Well, you knew it was coming. South Park returned for an unprecedented 14th season on Comedy Central last night, and like Kanye West, Bill Clinton, and a host of other celebrities, embattled golfer Tiger Woods was taken to task for the serial infidelity that nearly cost him his career and his marriage.
South Park writers even [...]