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Thursday, May 23 2013
Nuclear Muddle
SAMUEL Johnson, in his life of the English poet Abraham Cowley, said, "actions are visible." What are secret, Johnson added pointedly, are "motives". In the case of Iran's nuclear programme what we know of Tehran's actions and motives are the following ...
THE OIL SPILL SETTLEMENT
FORGIVE me for repeating myself, but I'm going to start this column with an anecdote about Ken Feinberg that I've told before. It was November 2010, a few months after Feinberg had been named the administrator of the $20 billion fund that British Petroleum ...
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Too young to model? Not Hudson Kroenig

MOST male models have the shelf life of a bag of potato chips, even shorter if they are familiar with the product. So at age 32, after 12 years in the business of catwalks and ab crunches, Brad Kroenig is about the closest thing there is to a male ...

Cracking teenagers´ online codes
WITH her coord i n a t e d zebra-striped scarf, tights and arm warmers, spiky out-to-there hat and pierced tongue, 34- year-old Danah Boyd provides an electric Gen Y contrast to the staid gray lobby of Microsoft Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Boyd – a senior researcher at Microsoft, an assistant professor at New York University and a fellow at the Berkman Centre for Internet and Society at Harvard – is a widely respected figure in social media research. With a number of influential scholarly papers under her name, she travels relentlessly, tweets under the handle Zephoria and has fans trailing her at TED conferences, at South by Southwest and elsewhere on...
Britney Spears wants $2mn to host X-Factor
BRITNEY Spears has rejected a $10 million offer to host the next season of the X Factor. So the question is: How much is Fox going to have to pony up? Reports this week that the pop star was considering a $10 million offer to host next fall´s seasons of the X Factor are out of date, according to a knowledgeable individual in Spears´ camp. The singer rejected that offer three weeks ago and is instead thinking about an offer to become a resident performer at a Las Vegas hotel in the fall, a la Celine Dion. So here comes a game of chicken. Fox desperately needs a big name to announce on the judge´s panel of Simon Cowell´s show, now that NBC´s hit show The Voice will...
Aishwarya happy being mom: Abhishek
ACTOR Abhishek Bachchan says his wife Aishwarya Rai is happy being mother to their three-and-halfmonth- old daughter and would return to work when she feels like doing so. Meanwhile, the actor is keen to work in films inspired by plays by young writers. "As and when she wants to come back, is completely her decision... as and when she decides, when she sees a script she is inspired by - the decision is entirely hers. Currently she is very happy doing what she is doing," the 36-year-old said at the launch of Sorabh Pant´s book The Wednesday Soul. While most filmmakers may opt for novels to base their films on, Abhishek favours plays penned by young writers...

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