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-- Some enterprising camera-phone type has blessed with the world with pricelessly weird footage of Young Jeezy reffing a drunken swimming race between Michael Phelps and Warren Sapp. This, apparently, is a thing that rappers do. (Via the Fader .) -- Afrobeat scion Femi Kuti has cancelled his entire U.S. tour because of some unspecified illness. We hope it's not rickets. -- ...
Thu, 08 Jan 2009 20:32:55 GMT - (Pitchfork)
Girl Scout cookies on sale now
In 1917, enterprising Oklahoma Girl Scouts held a bake sale to raise money for a service project. Although Girl Scouts haven?t done the baking since 1936, the Girl Scout Cookie sale ? which is now under way ? has become an American icon ? and empowered millions of girls.
Thu, 08 Jan 2009 16:32:23 GMT - (The Cabinet)
Help Raid Gaza from your home!
It didn't take long for some enterprising video game enthusiast to come up with a game about the Israel-Gaza war.
Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:05:18 GMT - (McClatchy Newspapers via Yahoo! News)
Choosing a marketing agency that will make you money
The level of marketing development in small and medium sized businesses in the Baltic States is shockingly old-fashioned. It?s quite unbelievable that within the past 20 years of free enterprising this field has stayed so underdeveloped.
Wed, 07 Jan 2009 21:47:01 GMT - (Baltic Times)
Ditka to sub in for Blagojevich?
There's a movement out there to try to get Mike Ditka in the Illinois governor's office in place of current enterprising governor Rod Blagojevich. Ditka's qualifications, of course, are many. He's got a career record of 121-95 as a head coach in the NFL. He seems like a fair-minded guy. He was strongly considered as a candidate to run against Barack Obama for a U.S. Senate seat in 2004 . ...
Wed, 07 Jan 2009 10:01:25 GMT - (Yahoo! Canada Sports)
Peter Vaughan
Business SA chief executive
Fri, 09 Jan 2009 06:54:35 GMT - (Adelaide Now)
Jennifer Aniston takes on a rambunctious dog in 'Marley & Me'
LOS ANGELES -- The Four Seasons Hotel has always been a safe haven for celebrities. That?s because a 10-foot brick wall creates a barrier between the hotel entrance and the street. The driveway just inside the wall is a no-paparazzi zone.
Fri, 09 Jan 2009 06:35:48 GMT - (The Pantagraph)
Crikey says
When the media shuts down over summer, the reliance on PR outlets to fill spaces becomes even more unapologetic.
Fri, 09 Jan 2009 02:07:59 GMT - (Crikey)
KRIKORIAN: Mr. Atwood lived his life the Wright way
There are so many people who quietly navigate the terrain of life in a most exemplary manner, maintaining high standards of steadiness in their jobs, in their marriages, in their private conduct and in their parental roles.
Fri, 09 Jan 2009 07:44:33 GMT - (Long Beach Press-Telegram)
McLean County-born filmmaker to christen latest project in Normal
?This was my time to be alive, even if it were only for a moment.? ? Dennis Neal Vaughn, from his short story, ?The City Was Electric.? If you?re a small-town McLean County native like Dennis Neal Vaughn, you can?t be farther from the heartland average than Market and Castro streets in San Francisco ? ground zero for the Bay City?s pioneering gay scene.
Fri, 09 Jan 2009 06:50:14 GMT - (The Pantagraph)