‘People’ Archives
Bullock has plans for Oscar, Razzie
LOS ANGELES — Hollywood darling Sandra Bullock plans to show off her Oscar and her Razzie together in the same display at home. The best-actress Oscar she won Sunday for The Blind Side will just get a more prominent position than the Razzie she won Saturday for the awful All About Steve. “You take the good with the not so good,” [...]
Jacob Zuma ‘embarrasses’ the Queen of England
Jacob Zuma, the South African president, has risked sparking a diplomatic row after he described the British as condescending imperialists - just hours before meeting the Queen. The 67 year-old accused the UK of feeling culturally superior - which he blamed on Britain's colonial past. Mr Zuma, who will spend two nights at Buckingham Palace for [...]
Obama’s Smoke & Binge is Suicidal
Barack Obama should not only try harder to kick his smoking habit, his team of doctors warned, but they also recommended 'moderation of alcohol intake'. It would seem the pressure of the U.S. presidency - and all those White House receptions - are taking their toll after the 48-year-old's first medical checkup since winning the race to the [...]
Tiger in the Rough | vanityfair.com
When Tiger Woods finally fell from his pedestal—the car crash, the angry wife, the tales of kinky extramarital sex, the link to a controversial sports doctor—it was one of the greatest recorded drops in popularity of any nonpolitical figure. Given Woods’s impenetrable mask of perfection, and the hints of trouble from one strange glimpse [...]
Pop Icon, Michael Jackson is Dead
From: THE NEW YORK TIMESMichael Jackson, Pop Icon, Is Dead at 50.LOS ANGELES — For his legions of fans, he was the Peter Pan of pop music: the little boy who refused to grow up. But on the verge of another attempted comeback, he is suddenly gone, this time for good.Michael Jackson, whose quintessentially American tale of celebrity and excess [...]
Bushism stuck with us
"President Bush has asked all the major networks for 15 minutes of air time on Thursday to give his farewell speech to the nation. Well, the White House says he's going to use part of the time to list his accomplishments. No word yet what he's going to do with the other 14 minutes." --Jay Leno"But I think everybody has warm feelings for George [...]
Profile: Kenya’s new PM Raila Odinga
NAIROBI, Apr 13, 2008 (Source: Trading Markets.com) -- -- Raila Odinga, the 63-year-old newly appointed Kenyan prime minister, is described by both friends and foes as the engine that drives politics in Kenya. Odinga was born in January 1945, in Maseno, Nyanza Province of Kenya, the second son of nine children of the late Jaramogi Oginga Odinga, [...]
The Man Who Would Be President
Andrew Ehrenkranz and Silvia Spring (Newsweek)Most Kenyans can only wish they were as confident about the future as Raila Odinga appears to be. Amid the violent ethnic unrest that has killed more than 600 people in the past three weeks, the 62-year-old opposition leader seems positive that he--not Kenya's incumbent president, Mwai Kibaki--will [...]
Kenya’s Kibaki sheds gentleman image
NAIROBI (Reuters) - When President Mwai Kibaki was inaugurated on December 30, 2002, a million Kenyans thronged a city park to hail him as savior after 24 years of repressive rule.Five years later, he was hurriedly sworn in, watched by a few close aides, on the lawn of his heavily guarded residence, as smoke rose from protests in nearby slums.The [...]
Thoughtless James Watson was Seeking cheap publicity over Stupid Africa comment
Partly edited from“The African Executive”As thoughtless as it sounds, James Watson knew only too well that being controversial would get all the media publicty ever thought of (cheaply); the Nobel prize not withstanding. Watson found a perfect opportunity to retire by claiming that black people less intelligent than white people and that [...]
