Even as Mitt Romney tries to fend off the continuing challenge from Newt Gingrich and focus his attention on President Obama, he is now being forced to deal with another rival: Rick Santorum.

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The Caucus: Romney Takes Aim at a New Target – Santorum

Charles Dickens biographer Claire Tomalin says children are not being taught to read with the attention span necessary to appreciate the novelist’s works.

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Dickens ‘beyond’ modern children

British-Egyptian Mohamed Negm, is a young, self taught, emerging artist. Painting for the last five years, his work has varied from portraits, buildings, places and to his latest focus: the Egyptian revolution. With a style marked by his imagination and inspired by his surroundings, Negm has produced an outstanding number of pieces that have caught the attention of the media, galleries and exhibitions worldwide.

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Like a Phoenix Rising from the Flames: Artist Mohamed Negm and the Arab Spring

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Heather Locklear Hospitalized

Francis Kallon Jr., who will attend Georgia Tech, drew the attention of football recruiters before ever playing a game for his Atlanta area high school.

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Recruiters Pounce on British Transfer With No Football Experience

Herman Cain’s turn atop the polls in the contest for the Republican presidential nomination captured the attention of journalists and pundits and sparked excitement among grass-roots conservative activists. But is it really possible that he — a black man who overcame poverty in the segregated South to become a wealthy entrepreneur and front-runner in the GOP race — would be the one to bring African American voters back to their original political home? Read full article > >

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Cain’s assertion that he could win over black voters is dismissed by analysts

MOSCOW — Even the not-so-casual observer could be forgiven for thinking that with the elections less than a month away, Bruce Willis was one of the front-runners in the campaign for Russia’s equivalent of Congress. Hardly. The tough-guy American actor has been occupying prime billboard space for months, but he’s the attention-getting face of Trust Bank’s advertising campaign. Look around for political advertising — it’s far less lively, mostly discreet and faceless, with the exception of perennial bad boy Vladimir Zhirinovsky making an unpleasant ethnic appeal. Read full article > >

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Russians pull out political dirty tricks ahead of elections

The revolutions in the Middle East and North Africa have toppled one dictator at a time from Ben Ali, Mubarak and just recently, Gaddafi in a remarkably tenacious struggle for democracy and freedom. This grassroots movement has captured the attention of the world with today’s rapid-fire news feed and communication networks. How were ordinary citizens in these countries able to unravel the seams of the authoritarian regimes in such a short time? Who is responsible for instigating the chain of events? ‘ Sandstorm: a leaderless revolution in the digital age ’ by Adeel A. Shah and Sheheryar T. Sardar, attempts to deconstruct the story of this unique youth-powered uprising with the help of modern technology.

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Sandstorm: a Leaderless Revolution in the Digital Age

NEW YORK — NBA owners and players called it an early night Thursday, with both pointing toward Friday as a decisive day for big moves to end the 119-day lockout. Or not. After two days of talks about the salary cap system, they will turn their attention back to the division of revenues, which derailed the negotiations last week. Read full article > >

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Players, owners eager to end the lockout in the next few days; talks resume Friday

This year’s CMJ included many acts that fully deserved the attention they clamored for, but there was also a sense of inertia.

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Critic’s Notebook: At CMJ Music Marathon, a Glut of Bands and a Haze of Music

Melissa McCarthy seemingly can do no wrong this year. She caught the attention of American moviegoers in “ Bridesmaids ” and has capitalized on that by getting cast in several upcoming projects, including Judd Apatow’s “ Knocked Up ” follow-up, “This Is Forty,” and a comedy with Jason Bateman. She scored an Emmy Award two weeks ago for her performance on CBS’s “Mike & Molly” and got her own beauty pageant-winning moment on live television in the process. Read full article > >

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Melissa McCarthy: The next great ‘Saturday Night Live’ host?

With all of the attention focused on the Game 1 matchup between Justin Verlander and C.C. Sabathia, many have overlooked the interesting pitchers scheduled for Game 2.

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Bats: Game 2 May Be a Matchup to Watch

Is this the end of the Tareq and Michaele love story? Or just another darn publicity stunt? Whatever it is, the Virginia horse-country characters, who caused a scandal with their uninvited appearance at a 2009 White House state dinner, seized our attention once again Wednesday when Tareq Salahi reported that his willowy blonde wife had been abducted . Read full article > >

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Michaele Salahi wasn’t kidnapped — she ran off with Journey’s Neal Schon

There are far too many people out there who think they have a DM relationship with @TheAlmighty and then subject the rest of us to what they say His judgment is. After an earthquake rattled the east coast last week, a New York rabbi blamed it on the state’s same-sex marriage law. And over the weekend, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) shared her direct messages from God at a campaign stop in Florida. So, see if you can follow this logic without your head exploding. The American people are angry over government spending and the inattention of politicians to their concerns about it. Hearing their anger, God unleashes earthquakes and hurricanes to get “the attention of the politicians.” Never mind that the billions of dollars in damages will cause local, state and federal governments to spend money they don’t have for repairs. Thus adding to the “morbid obesity diet” Bachmann claims God is trying to get the politicians to rein in. Lord, have mercy. Read full article > >

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Bachmann talks to God — again [UPDATED]

It was the beginning of the school year at the London School of Economics and there was already one student that caught my attention. He was slightly older than the rest of us and would always come to class in perfectly fitted Prada suits. I never understood how he managed to arrive just as the lecture was about to begin, never a minute too early or late. He sat across from me and listened intently as our professor lectured us on moral and political theory. I wondered if he was an altruistic banker who had decided to go back to school. I never would have guessed he was the son of a brutal and crazy dictator.

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My Classmate Saif al-Islam