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11 May 2011
Story HighlightsWe love explanations and analysis, but maybe it's just Novak Djokovic's time Wayne Odesnik might be back, but he's a long way from clearing his name It's time for the WTA to come out...
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Levi Johnston's Palin Tell-All Book Gets A Cover 11 May 2011
Huffington Post Way back in the summer of 2009, Levi Johnston -- the estranged paramour of Sarah Palin's daughter, Bristol -- was said (by "Tank," his "bodyguard/publicist!") to be "shopping a book" of the tell-all variety, about his days and nights in the company of the Palin family. A Vanity Fair piece later that fall offered a taste of what might be on the way. But by the following summer,...
Huffington Post If you're an elite European soccer player, how do you celebrate winning a title? Well, if you're AC Milan forward Zlatan Ibrahimovic -- who happens to have a black belt in taekwondo -- and your team has just...
Huffington Post Following a national trend in which legislators force broad women’s health issues onto the battleground of anti-abortion politics, the Texas state Senate has put the future of the state’s Medicaid Women’s Health Program (WHP) in limbo. If the legislation that established the WHP is not renewed by December, the five-year-old program -- which provides approximately 90,000...
Gingrich's Vision For America Best Exemplified By Religious Organization He Helped Found 11 May 2011
Huffington Post [Jason Cherkis contributed reporting to this piece.] If all goes according to plan, in just a few hours, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich will end a decade-and-a-half of testing the waters and finally announce his candidacy for President of the United States. This seemed all but assured last week, when Gingrich campaign spokesman Rick Tyler told reporters, "by the time...
Beyonce Talks Dad No Longer Being Her Manager 11 May 2011
Huffington Post Give Matthew Knowles credit: he knows how to manage a singer to superstardom. Then again, when that singer is Beyonce, how hard can it be? That's a question that the popstar is ready to answer now that she's taken full control of her career. Having announced in late March that she was separating from her father "on a professional level," Beyonce is now her own manager, set on...
Fiesta Bowl Fined $1 Million, Stays In BCS 11 May 2011
Huffington Post WASHINGTON — The Fiesta Bowl will be allowed to remain part of the Bowl Championship Series, though it must pay a $1 million fine for apparent illegal campaign contributions and inappropriate spending. The BCS presidential oversight committee, which made the decision Wednesday, also attached several conditions as it let the Fiesta Bowl remain part of the system for...
India run out of steam 11 May 2011
Huffington Post Indignation spread through the Twittersphere when it was discovered that popular photo sharing service Twitpic was seemingly forbidding users from selling or distributing their own pictures. But Twitpic is not alone. Other photo services also exercise surprising controls over pictures uploaded by users, and most sites claim the right to use or distribute pictures without...
Huffington Post The State Senate's Independent Democratic Conference has released a showing that marriage equality in New York state would generate $391 million in economic activity, revenue, and savings during the three years after it is made into law. Using what the group deems as 'conservative estimates', their report, titled "", finds that 21,309 gay and lesbian couples living in New York...
Free Comic Book Day, What a Haul! 11 May 2011
The Examiner Free Comic Book Day (FCBD) is an annual event staged by the comic book industry to celebrate its own unique niche in the pop culture scene. Celebrated on the first Saturday in May each year since 2002, is a time when participating comic book shops across North America and around the world give away (a select group of specially-produced comics) absolutely free to anyone who...
