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Taylor Swift, Gosselin among People's most intriguing

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Fearless singer Taylor Swift graces the cover of People's most intriguing of 2009, on a list that names mom-of-eight Kate Gosselin the mother of all reality stars and British singer Susan Boyle as the surprise hit, the magazine said on Wednesday.
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Avatar starts long march toward profitability

Titanic director James Cameron releases his first dramatic feature in 12 years this weekend, and there's almost as much buzz about its costs as the film's groundbreaking motion-capture animation.
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Feast or famine for Golden Globe nominees

They were joking about it on the set of The Adjustment Bureau, where freshly minted Globes nominee Emily Blunt was working with Matt Damon, who scored a double whammy Tuesday with nominations for the comedy The Informant! and the drama Invictus.
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Mundane Morgans wastes talented cast

As with most mainstream comedies, you get nearly all of the story line and most of the best jokes in Did You Hear About the Morgans? from its trailer.
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Europeans dominate Golden Globe foreign film group

A neo-noir romance and a sweeping historical look at a Sicilian village were among the foreign language films earning Golden Globe nominations on Tuesday, hoping to boost recognition in the United States.
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Up in the Air, Nine lead Golden Globes

Up in the Air, starring George Clooney as a man who fires people for a living, earned six Golden Globe nominations on Tuesday, including best drama, as Hollywood's awards season got down to business.
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Polanski film in competition at Berlin festival

Director Roman Polanski's new movie The Ghost Writer will be in competition at the Berlin film festival in February, organizers said on Tuesday. The French-born Oscar winner is under house arrest in Switzerland after he was held in September to face charges of having unlawful sex with a 13-year-old girl in the United States in 1977.
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Solo entrepreneur has shirt and sweet business model

A year ago the 27-year-old Jacksonville, Florida entrepreneur launched a website - Iwearyourshirt.com () - where he charged people to wear whatever shirt they sent him. On New Year's Day, he charged $1 and each successive day Sadler's fee went up a buck, so this New Year's Eve he will charge $365.
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Courtney Love loses guardianship of daughter

Rock singer Courtney Love lost legal control of her daughter with late Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain after a court gave temporary guardianship of the 17 year-old to Cobain's mother and sister, court papers showed on Monday.
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A Turkish Bath Experience In Istanbul

Everything we've done in Istanbul has been interesting, but getting scrubbed down and massaged with soap by a couple of good looking male tellaks tonight definitely tops
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EMBA versus MBA – Which one will you choose?

The EMBA course is aimed at experienced executives who prefer not to take a career break to take a full-time MBA and typically require significant business experience to gain admission. The regular MBA course is generally taken by candidates with relatively lesser work experience...
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BA staff vote for Christmas strike

12-day walkout spells chaos for nearly 1m passengers British Airways' 12,500 cabin crew today voted overwhelmingly in favour of a 12-day strike over Christmas and the New Year.
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French loan to promote education, investment

President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Monday the French state would raise 35 billion euros ($51.33 billion) to fund strategic investments in the coming months, with the priority given to higher education and training.
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New ferry to Iceland’s 'Pompeii'

Westman Islands now an easy day-trip from Reykjavik. A new ferry pier on Iceland's south coast will soon provide the first high-speed link to the jewels in Iceland's volcanic crown, Vestmannaeyjar or the Westman Islands.
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The Smoke That Thunders, Zambia

The town of Livingstone, Zambia, near Victoria Falls, was named after Doctor David Livingstone, the missionary born in Blantyre, Scotland, where I once lived as a child. It is illustrative of how much the world has changed, in such a relatively short time, that it was a mere 150 years since he had become

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