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"The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 Monday to uphold a strict Indiana law requiring voters to present photo identification at the polls, handing Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) a serious setback days before a pivotal primary battle. The decision earned strong rebuke from Democratic leaders in Congress as well as civil rights advocates who argued the voter ID law would disproportionately affect African-Americans and 18- to 34-year-old voters, two important constituencies for Obama." (TheHill)
"If Ashlee Simpson, Katie Couric, and CIA director Michael Hayden are sharing a red carpet, then it must be the White House Correspondents' Association dinner ... 'Two weeks from tonight is Jenna's wedding, so I'm a little wistful.' (The President) likened the appearance of Pamela Anderson and Mitt Romney in the same room to the coming of the apocalypse (Anderson later admitted she was in the bathroom during the remark) ... And while Washington politicos aren't known for their high-fashion splendor, it was a visiting Londoner that committed the evening's fashion faux pas. Jemima Khan arrived at the Bloomberg pre-party clad in the same RM by Roland Mouret dress and Alexander McQueen belt she wore to Malin Johansson and Tim Jeffries' wedding the weekend before. 'I was hoping no one would notice,' she laughed, before quickly darting out of the camera's eye.'" (Fashionweekdaily)
"(Stella) Rotaru, who is twenty-six, works for the International Organization for Migration, a group connected to the United Nations, in Chisinau, Moldova. She is a repatriation specialist. Her main task is bringing lost Moldovans home. Nearly all her clients are victims of human trafficking, most of them women sold into prostitution abroad, and their stories pour across her desk in stark vignettes and muddled sagas of desperation, violence, betrayal, and sorrow." (NewYorker)
(Tina Brown via JK/NYSD)
"I was up at the American Museum of Natural History where the PEN American Center was holding its annual PEN Literary Gala. This is a highly attended benefit, a glamorous one as literary events go, drawing scores of famous authors and media names, at least one of which grace each table ...Authors authors everywhere. Michael Roberts, Executive Director of PEN American Center greeted the guests who were barely paying attention (the larger the room and attendance, the more inattentive people are). Tina Brown who was gala co-chair, followed with an official greeting and got more attention ... This was followed by Christiane Amamnpour, who was emcee. She introduced Toni Morrison who was given the PEN/Borders Literary Service Award, presented by George Jones, President of Borders." (NYSocialDiary)
"At the show's lavish opening-night party at the Hilton—the wedding you don't get in the show—I became family with Kathie Lee Gifford, who turns out to be even more fun than Meryl Streep. I totally ate crow—along with the buffet—while talking theater with Kathie Lee as if we were long-lost BFFs. Turns out we both liked Grey Gardens a little more than Spring Awakening, about which she said, 'Not every kid is that miserable!' And we agreed that Patti LuPone is astounding in Gypsy. ('Polish the Tony right now,' advised Kathie Lee.) But the revival I'm really panting for, I told her, is Equus with Daniel Radcliffe. 'Why?' wondered Kathie Lee. 'Well, what's the show about?' I prodded. 'Oh!' she exclaimed, getting it and laughing. 'So you're saying he's hung like a horse!' Uh-huh. Significant pause. 'I don't need to know that Harry Potter is hung like a horse!'" (Musto)
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