Barbara Walters interviewed Kris Jenner and daughters Kourtney , Khloe and Kim Kardashian, as part of her annual most fascinating people TV special . But for an interview that was attempting to convince us this family is “fascinating,” it was kind of boring. Did Walters ask Kim about her divorce? No. Did she grill momager Kris about putting her youngest daughters in the public eye? No. Read full article > >

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Barbara Walters interviews ‘fascinating’ Kardashians; Lady Gaga is top-earning female musician

The University of California, Berkeley says families earning up to $140,000 would be expected to pay no more than 15 percent of their annual income.

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Berkeley Increasing Aid to Middle-Class Students

A new wrinkle in the annual question about what’s an appropriate holiday gift for a teacher: Does that gift ever cross over into bribe territory? A new Alabama ethics ruling [pdf] specifically prohibits teachers from receiving many kinds of gifts, including gift cards (and, perplexingly, hams and turkeys). Read full article > >

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Ala. teachers could receive jail time, $6000 fine for receiving gifts

West End musicals Matilda and Ghost – both directed by Matthew Warchus – will go head to head at the annual Whatsonstage.com Awards with nine nominations each.

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Matilda and Ghost vie for awards

It’s time for the annual guessing game entitled, “Who Will Be Named Barbara Walters’s Most Fascinating Person of the Year ?” ABC got the ball rolling earlier today by issuing a news release that revealed the first seven entries on Walters’s big list of 10: Pippa Middleton (who has apparently trumped Kate Middleton, named on last year’s list ), the Kardashian family (which, as a multi-headed publicity-seeking entity, qualifies as one person), Eric Stonestreet and Jesse Tyler Ferguson of “Modern Family” (also a single unit known as Cam-Mitchell), Donald Trump , Katy Perry and New York Yankee Derek Jeter. Read full article > >

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Barbara Walters’s most fascinating person of 2011: Who will it be?

Northern Ireland’s First Minister Peter Robinson calls for Catholics and Protestants to unite to end sectarian division, at the annual DUP conference.

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Robinson: ‘End sectarian divide’

Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) desperately wants to spare the Government Accountability Office from deeper budget cuts this year — and he’s gone so far as to publish a 29-page report to help convince his colleagues. The nonpartisan congressional investigative office (which ranked third this week in the annual Best Places to Work in the Federal Government rankings) could face cuts of up to $42 million this fiscal year, a move that agency bosses say will result in furloughs, layoffs, delays in updating agency computers and supportive services that lawmakers fear could force cutbacks in the investigations and audits the office publishes almost daily. Read full article > >

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GAO budget cuts panned in new report

Several hundred people gather in Belfast for the annual tribute to those who died in the two World Wars and other conflicts.

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Remembrance tribute takes place

As the Queen leads the annual Remembrance Sunday ceremony at the Cenotaph in London, young fundraiser Lydia Cross, 10, tells the BBC’s Nick Higham how she raised £60,000 for war veterans.

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US President Barack Obama has gone to Hawaii, where this weekend he is hosting leaders from Asia Pacific countries at the annual Apec summit.

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Obama to host Apec Hawaii summit

BNP leader Nick Griffin says his party is through its “rocky patch” and is now “on the up again”, as members gather for their annual conference.

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Griffin: BNP’s rocky patch ‘over’

BNP leader Nick Griffin says his party is through its “rocky patch” and is now “on the up again”, as members gather for their annual conference.

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Griffin: BNP’s rocky patch ‘over’

In a speech to the annual conference of the dominant Conservative Party, Prime Minister Cameron told Britons to fight economic gloom.

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Cameron Urges Britons to Fight Downturn

If this were anywhere else in the world, the naked man wearing only blue body paint and piercings in unmentionable places would be the freak. So would the grandmother donning a leather dominatrix outfit, the grown man wearing a giant furry chipmunk suit and the gaggle of friends painted to resemble walking zombies. But this is Burning Man, the annual hippie-dippie experiment in radical self-expression, so perhaps nowhere in last week’s 50,000-plus-person gathering was there more anxiety about fitting in than in the two RVs that pulled up filled with what might seem the most unusual cargo for this particular gathering: nearly a dozen MBA students from Columbia University. Read full article > >

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Burning Man: A countercultural experiment goes mainstream

We’ve selected our favorite snap shots from the hundreds of submissions to our annual Travel photo contest. Now its your turn. Let us know which of these pictures makes you want to pack your bags and jump on a plane. Read full article > >

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