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New York Subway Riders: Kinda Grope-y [Stop It]

Ew, guys, seriously: Stop groping women on the subway. Complaints of sexual abuse in New York subways are up four percent this year, to 587. According to City Room, NYPD Chief James P. Hall told City Council today that sexual harassment was the "No. 1 quality of life offense on the subway.&q...

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Yahoo's Lesbian 'Don Juan' Backhands Lindsay Lohan [Valleyspawn]

Courtenay Semel, the sapphic spawn of former Yahoo CEO Terry Semel, is quoted in the lesbian magazine Curve dissing former lady friend Lindsay Lohan. Then she complains that the media twists her relationships. The nerve of this one. Courtenay Semel, for those who are not familiar with her heiress...

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It's the 2009 National Book Awards and These People Feel Fine's [Gawker Party Crash]

2009's National Book Awards went down last night. In delightful twists of irony, they were a) sponsored by Google, b) held on Wall Street, and c) James Franco was there. So were Party Crash Photog Mo Pitz and I. BOOKS! "Look up, see that?" An editor at Reagan Arthur drunkenly smiled dur...

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Oprah Makes It Official: To Leave Syndicated Show in September [Turning Points]

And thus an era ends. As rumored she would, Oprah Winfrey announced today that she will give up her syndicated show to focus on building her cable network. Oprah ends a 25 year run that puts hers up with Fidel Castro and Muammar al-Gaddafi as one of the most durable dictatorships of our age. Acco...

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AP: Layoff Goals Accomplished [Statements]

AP spokesman Paul Colford just sent over this statement on the company's layoffs: The 90 news department staffers being notified this week, along with earlier reductions in other departments, a voluntary retirement program last summer, a continuing hiring freeze and attrition, bring The Associat...

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Naked Old Rich People Sue Each Other [Scandals]

This Palm Beach wealthy socialite scandal/ lawsuit is a totally impenetrable thicket of rich-person backbiting, except for the key fact that it involves naked photos of a 57 year-old woman, and the widow of Dr. Atkins. Interested? Sicko. [Page2Live] ...

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