Media-Whore D'Oeuvres



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"Never-ending blankets of snow delayed the start of Russian Vogue's tenth anniversary banquet on Thursday night by more than two and a half hours .. Billed as a 'recession chic' meal, dinner came without the delicacies that one expects in Moscow like quail and fish eggs. However, the bottles of Veuve Clicquot on every table didn't exactly say 'budget.' And neither did the live auction that followed. When 30 dolls designed by fashion designers hit the block, some fetched as much as 100,000 euros, with proceeds going to local orphanages. Billionaire businessman Vladislav Doronin dropped 30K on a doll designed by YSL's Stefano Pilati. It was a present for his girlfriend, Naomi Campbell, the current face of the fashion house." (Style)



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"The press corps has a new dean. David Broder is, of course, Dean Emerita, but the Chicago Sun-Times' Lynn Sweet will probably be taking over the daily duties. What do those entail? The unofficial position is part institutional memory, part guardian of journalistic purity: the walking, talking conscience of the press corps, there to remind them that he's just a president. Sweet, already a well-regarded reporter and infamous for her acerbic personality, has been covering Obama for years and never really swooned for him as so many of her colleagues did." (TheDailyBeast)

"While its previous polls show an electoral shift in party identification towards the Democrats, the Pew Research Center says that there has not been the same shift in the ideology of voters. The numbers of voters who put themselves in the categories of liberal, moderate and conservative has changed little since the George Bush won his first term. At the outset of the Bush administration, 18 percent of voters said they were liberal, 38 percent called themselves moderate and 36 percent described themselves as conservative. The numbers now are 21 percent, 36 percent and 38 percent respectively. There is more ideological unity among Republicans with 68 percent saying they are conservative, while among Democrats 34 percent say they are liberal and 37 percent say they are moderate." (CQPOlitics)