Winners & Losers
Winners Barack Obama: Towers over Hillary in the Democrats’ first debate, gaffe or no. STAN HONDA/AFP Richard Gere: Kisses Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty. Ignites firestorm in India. Totally worth it. Capitalism: The Dow hits 13,000. And China joins the fun. (Ignore those dark clouds.) Stephen F. Hawking: Paralyzed physicist does flips in zero gravity. Britney ...
Winners
Barack Obama: Towers over Hillary in the Democrats' first debate, gaffe or no.
STAN HONDA/AFP
Winners
Barack Obama: Towers over Hillary in the Democrats’ first debate, gaffe or no.
Richard Gere: Kisses Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty. Ignites firestorm in India. Totally worth it.
Capitalism: The Dow hits 13,000. And China joins the fun. (Ignore those dark clouds.)
Stephen F. Hawking: Paralyzed physicist does flips in zero gravity.
Britney Spears: Much better!
Losers
Environmentalists: Earth Day overshadowed by … another Earth.
The Blues & Royals: British squadron leaves for Iraq with a bull’s eye in its midst: Prince Harry.
George Tenet: Didn’t anyone tell the former CIA director that whiny, self-serving memoirs are unbecoming?
Al Qaeda: One hundred seventy-two of its operatives arrested in Saudi Arabia, a major commander captured in Afghanistan, and the organization’s local #2 reported dead in Algeria.
Nigeria: Fraudulent elections mar the democratic progress of Africa’s most populous country.
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