A-List Academies
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Madonna just broke ground on an education center in Malawi, Shakira has one in Colombia, and Andre Agassi's school is a national role model. VIEW OUR GALLERY of stars with classrooms.
George Catches Up
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
The supremely well-connected ABC newsman George Stephanopoulos on closing the Sunday ratings gap, his Clinton ties, the health-care battle-and whether he really does have a daily conference call with Rahm Emanuel, Paul Begala, and James Carville.
An Ivy League Tragedy
John Connolly is a former New York City detective turned journalist. He is a contributing editor for Vanity Fair magazine, and is currently finishing a book called The Sin Eater on disgraced and imprisoned Hollywood private investigator Anthony Pellicano.
Wendy is a former child abuse and sex crimes prosecutor who teaches at New England Law/Boston. Wendy specializes in the representation of crime victims, women and children. She also writes and lectures widely on victims' rights and criminal justice policy. Her expose of the American legal system, And Justice For Some, came out in 2007. A former NFL cheerleader and visiting scholar at Harvard Law School, Wendy lives outside Boston with her husband and five children.
Police have found a body in the lab where Yale grad student Annie Le was last seen-on the same day her wedding was to take place.
Celebrity Professors
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This fall, Spike Lee, Bobby Flay, Zadie Smith, and Eliot Spitzer go back to school. VIEW OUR GALLERY of big names on campus.
The Diet That Shrinks Smarty Pants
Hannah Seligson is a journalist and the author of New Girl on the Job: Advice from the Trenches. Her second book, A Little Bit Married, will be published by De Capo this spring. Her website is www.hannahseligson.com
Intellectuals and wonks have finally found their version of the Atkins: a diet complete with history, biology, psychology, and Harvard's seal of approval.
College Admissions Hell
Kathleen Kingsbury covers education for The Daily Beast. She also contributes to Time magazine, where she has covered business, health and education since 2005.
After a brutal week for college applicants, admissions officers dish about the tough decisions, the role money played-and the nasty calls they're getting from parents.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is a professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
Gerald Posner is The Daily Beast's Chief Investigative Reporter. He's the award-winning author of 10 investigative nonfiction bestsellers, ranging from political assassinations, to Nazi war criminals, to 9/11, to terrorism. His latest book, Miami Babylon: Crime, Wealth and Power—A Dispatch from the Beach, was published in October. He lives in Miami Beach with his wife, the author Trisha Posner.
Martin Jacques is the cofounder of the UK think tank Demos, writes a regular column for The Guardian, and is a visiting research fellow at the London School of Economics Asia Research Centre. His new book, When China Rules the World, is available now.
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