Andrew Stern
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/ 5 December 2007

Can Obama depend on the Oprah magic?

Celebrity political endorsements do not get much bigger than Oprah Winfrey’s. But political experts say it is doubtful the popular United States talk-show host can sway votes to fellow Chicagoan and first-term Illinois Senator Barack Obama in the way she persuades viewers to turn books into instant bestsellers.

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/ 31 December 2006

It would be ‘awesome’ if ‘TomKat’ ‘went missing’

It would be ”awesome” if ”TomKat” and other combined nicknames for celebrity couples ”went missing” in the New Year, a Michigan university said on Sunday in its annual list of clichés deserving banishment. The university’s public relations staff culled its list of 16 cliches from 4 500 submissions, many of which demanded that something be done to stop the onslaught of the word ”awesome”.