Famous College Roommates
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From Al Gore and Tommy Lee Jones at Harvard to Robin Williams and Christopher Reeve at Juilliard to Owen Wilson and Wes Anderson at Texas, VIEW OUR GALLERY of A-Listers who tried to make dean's list while bunking together.
How Colleges Dupe Students
Kathleen Kingsbury covers education for The Daily Beast. She also contributes to Time magazine, where she has covered business, health and education since 2005.
As prospective students begin visiting campuses, universities are working hard to appear picture-perfect. Insiders tell Kathleen Kingsbury how not to get fooled by the scripted charade.
Write-Your-Own Obama Speech
Benjamin Sarlin is a reporter for The Daily Beast. He previously covered New York City politics for The New York Sun and has worked for talkingpointsmemo.com.
On the heels of Obama's Cairo address, The Daily Beast analyzed his most famous speeches. The result? A step-by-step guide to winning over pro-life activists, Muslims nations...and Paul Krugman.
Obama's Catholic Conversion
John Hendren was named ABC News correspondent based in the Washington, D.C., bureau in 2006. Before joining ABC News, he was the Pentagon correspondent for the Los Angeles Times and National Public Radio; the Washington, D.C., correspondent at the Seattle Times and a national writer and investigative reporter for The Associated Press.
With his Notre Dame speech, the president can no longer avoid the abortion debate-a debate, John Hendren reports, that he's increasingly winning among America's divided Catholics.
A college diploma may not be worth as much in this economy as it used to, but at least the graduates of the Class of 2009 got to hear some great speeches on their way out. Watch clips of six of the best from the President, the First Lady, Ellen DeGeneres, Joe Biden, Oprah Winfrey, and John Legend.
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.
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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.
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