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Click here to visit the new home of Politics Daily!In the economically happy Clintonite 1990s, a distinctive sort of genre fiction called chick lit surged across the land, topping bestseller lists and inspiring TV shows and films. It has yet to fade one bit. Chick lit, a term that came to define a genre led by Helen Fielding's "Bridget Jones" in 1996, celebrates modern women in humorous and lighthearted eye-candy prose as professionally successful or inventive, youngish, independent, sexually avaricious, shopaholic, nipped-and-tucked, trendsetter, sexy and perky and totally self-involved. In other words, look at Carrie Bradshaw in "Sex and the ...
As some may have heard, Chelsea Clinton is getting married on Saturday in a multimillion-dollar wedding. People have said the event is excessive, especially in these tough times. Others, the U.K. Guardian's, Paul Harris, observe, after the family scandals she endured, Chelsea deserves an extraordinary wedding, and still others react with a yawn. For a few, the yawn morphs into a sneer. In the comment section of the Guardian, Harris was upbraided for his sycophancy: "You write informed pieces about Detroit and then end up writing this dreadful crap about the Clinton daughter. Were you hoping ...
On Thursday, the U.S. Army announced it was firing John Metzler and Thurman Higgenbotham, the civilian leadership at Arlington National Cemetery, after concluding a seven-month investigation into the improper burials of fallen American soldiers. Many of the startling discoveries at Arlington -- from bodies buried on top of one another in the same grave, to unidentified human remains found in a landfill on the Arlington grounds -- came about because of the diligent work of a single reporter, Salon's Mark Benjamin (Read his stories on Arlington here). Surge Desk caught up with Benjamin today ...
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