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Further Reading
The British Tabloid Phone-Hacking Scandal
What the officer and the minister said about hacking…and what they didn’t.

If you’re not ready to make the jump to nose piercings, these magnets will make it easy to experiment before you commit. Not for use during auto-erotic asphyxiation, so don’t even try it, buster.
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If you ever get an e-mail from a journalist, there’s one portion of it you should pay attention to more than any other. No, it’s not the part where they’re asking you about the rhinos who escaped from your basement; it’s the sign-off.
If it’s “Cheers,” you’re cool. You did OK. If it’s “Regards,” you …

Because having those unblinking, soulless eyes gazing back at you would be, you know, creepy.
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And now we tread headlong into the limbo between summer blockbuster season and Oscar season (with a quick stop over in Horror Town in late October). What do September’s offerings have in common? Not a whole lot: there’s some serious highbrow stuff alongside lower-end fare, horror films and biopics and even a bit of Mexploitation.
No, the only thing September’s releases have in common are maddeningly non-specific titles that make it hard to quickly search for relevant images on Google.
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The American
KL: George Clooney remains one of the true “stars” left …

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By the time the Girls Gone Mowing video series hit Volume XIX, “Sexy Seniors on Sod,” the marketplace pretty much had its fill of this kind of exploitative production. But still, that last installment gave its starring Grandmas plenty of Christmas money to give to the grandchildren that year:
“Why does this five dollar bill smell like beer and old linen?”
“Never you mind…Granny worked hard for that money, and you just buy yourself some candybars or something with that.”
Ad from Life, May 28, 1951.