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"Norman Pearlstine, the former editor in chief of Time Inc. and an adviser for the Carlyle Group, the private equity group, was named chief content officer of Bloomberg on Monday. The appointment reunites Mr. Pearlstine with Matthew Winkler, the founder and editor in chief of Bloomberg News, who worked together in the 1980s at The Wall Street Journal." (NyTimes)
"Janice Dickinson stopped by Hiro Ballroom last night to mix with her target demographic, the gays. I greeted the irrepressible minx by the bathroom, where we chatted, naturally, about how great we both looked. When I told her my secret is Vitamin E oil, Janice said, 'But Colacello's an Italian name. It must be OLIVE oil.' As she pranced into the loo, I realized the kook had thought I was writer Bob Colacello the whole time!" (Musto)
"Pete Doherty is confirmed to attend the forthcoming Celebrity Soccer Six tournament at Millwall FC's ground, The New Den, on Sunday (May 18). Doherty won the tournament last year with his Babyshambles team, and will be defending the title against the likes of The Wombats, The Twang, Faithless, and Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly. Before he was released early from Wormwood Scrubs prison last week (May 6), Doherty was set to be replaced by Liam Gallagher from Oasis in the tournament." (NME)
"'Being a mother is my favorite thing in the world!' said Tory Burch, designer and mother of six, at Friday afternoon's Colleague Helpers in Philanthropic Services spring luncheon and fashion show held at the Beverly Hills Hotel ... The elegant get-together, populated by Molly Sims, Lori Loughlin, Betsy Bloomingdale, Jamie Tisch, Angela Janklow, Maria Bell, Amanda Goldberg, Laurice Bell, and Carla Sands, was appropriately held on Mother's Day weekend." (Fashionweekdaily)
"Losing both states probably wouldn’t have cost Obama the nomination, but it would have meant, at a minimum, a brutal, ugly, down-to-the-wire endgame guaranteed to leave the ultimate winner seriously, perhaps fatally, weakened. So when the returns started coming in, showing an Obama landslide in North Carolina and a shrinking Clinton lead in Indiana, Obama supporters looked at one another in happy wonderment. As Clinton’s margin in Indiana slipped below twenty thousand, Tim Russert, of NBC, went on the air to say, bluntly, 'We now know who the Democratic nominee’s going to be, and no one’s going to dispute it.' Just after dawn, ABC’s George Stephanopoulos decreed, 'This nomination fight is over.' On CBS, Bob Schieffer brought the networks to unanimity. 'Basically,' he said, 'this race is over.' And the New York Post hit the streets with cruel tabloid succinctness: a picture of the home-state senator over a single word—'TOAST!'—in block letters three inches high." (NewYorker)
"Hillary Clinton may have a financial incentive to remain in the presidential race for a while. And she has Senator John McCain to thank for it. Clinton loaned her struggling campaign $11 million in recent months. A little-known provision of a 2002 campaign- finance law cosponsored by McCain prevents candidates who drop out of the race from raising money after the nominating conventions to repay themselves for personal loans. Should Clinton fail to come up with the funds by the Democratic convention in August, she'll be out the $11 million. If she quits the campaign before then, she may find it hard to get people to keep giving cash just so she can retire her debt." (Bloomberg)
"Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) and his campaign aides have not discussed paying off his rival's $20 million campaign debt, top advisers to Obama and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) said Sunday. 'She hasn't asked and we haven't offered,' Obama chief strategist David Axelrod said on 'Fox News Sunday.' Axelrod added that he did not believe Clinton was looking for a deal in which she would drop out of the race for the Democratic nomination in exchange for Obama's help in retiring her campaign debt. 'I don't think she's waiting for a cue or a signal from us or an offer of financial assistance. And I think that would demean her to suggest otherwise,' Axelrod said." (TheHill)
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