Weekly Obsession: Sore Feet, Retired Capezios
This week in the weekly obsession: former House majority leader Tom DeLay shook his groove thing on Dancing With the Stars so much his feet failed him. As he hung up his Capezios, TV pundits everywhere mourned the loss.
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Katie received her Master of Public Policy from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, where she was the 2005 Menzies Scholar. She received her Bachelor of Arts from the University of Queensland and completed her honors thesis on media representations of the East Timor conflict at the University of Melbourne. She was born and raised in Brisbane, Australia.
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