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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.
Best (and Worst) Cities to Meet Men
The Daily Beast is dedicated to news and commentary, culture, and entertainment. We carefully curate the web’s most essential stories and bring you original must-reads from our talented contributors.
Still single, gals? America's most eligible bachelors don't live where you think. The Daily Beast crunched the numbers to pinpoint the 36 cities with the most-and least-dateable guys.
The Men in the Mirror
Richard Abowitz is on the staff of Las Vegas Weekly and writes the Movable Buffet blog and column for Los Angeles Times. He covers and music and culture, and for a decade has chronicled the rise and continuing fall of Las Vegas.
Before Michael Jackson's death, his impersonators' lives were, at best, uneventful. Now they're in high demand-and have strangers weeping in front of them.
"Dave's Whipping Boy"
Paul Shaffer is one of America’s enduring musical icons. He is the musical director of Late Show with David Letterman as well as the co-composer of “It’s Raining Men.”
In his new memoir, We'll Be Here for the Rest of Our Lives, Paul Shaffer tells how Letterman made him famous and how he's Dave's comic foil.
Obama's Strange Trip
Nicolle Wallace served as a senior adviser to the McCain-Palin campaign from May to November 2008. She served President George W. Bush as an assistant to the president and director of communications for the White House, as well as communications director for President Bush's 2004 campaign.
Afghanistan is teetering. Unemployment's sky high. And health-care reform's in trouble. So why not fly to Copenhagen? Bush strategist Nicolle Wallace on the risks of the president's road trip.
Project Runway's Jailbird Sings
Elizabeth Gates is a style correspondent for The Daily Beast. She is a graduate of The New School University and a former intern at Vogue magazine.
Kenley Collins, America's favorite infamous cat-hurling designer, talks about her debut collection at Fashion Week, her next reality show, and what she learned behind bars.
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.
Lee Siegel has written about culture and politics and is the author of three books: Falling Upwards: Essays in Defense of the Imagination; Not Remotely Controlled: Notes on Television; and, most recently, Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob. In 2002, he received a National Magazine Award for reviews and criticism.
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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