Today in books and publishing: The class-action lawsuit against Google gets the go-ahead, the Times of London paywall temporarily comes down, and a copy of the Book of Mormon has been purloined.
The Big 10 and Pac-12 close a new scheduling deal to gobble up more college sports scheduling real estate, Penn State's top choice to replace Joe Paterno passes, and Alex Rodriguez's bad knee gets the experimental blood therapy treatment in Germany.
This was a great year for bad news, whether you're a crime buff, a lover of disaster porn, or just a run-of-the-mill gawker.
Nobody's buying celebrity memoirs, the rare book market is booming, and another tell-all book by a former lobbyist in Jack Abramoff's firm.
Kelly Clarkson endorses Ron Paul and outrages the Internet, Kanye West is still available for New Year's Eve, and Zoe Saldana and Bradley Cooper are "totally dating."
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Every day The Atlantic Wire highlights the videos that truly earn your five minutes (or less) of attention. Today: It's not impossible to make a good zoo movie, a little polar bear without a home is going to be a big deal, and Conan's gets laughs out of the Kindle Fire's slow start.
Today in sports: the NFL revises its concussion policy, the "fight of the century" faces another setback, and Paul Quinn College meets America on ESPN.
Today in books: A six-course Salman Rushdie-themed dinner could be yours for less than $100, poetry's tricky racial politics, and Nielsen BookScan announces the best-selling titles of 2011.
Aaron Sorkin's show gets a less cumbersome title, Barack Obama does some late-minute shopping, and Steve Kroft's wife did not care for her "upper-crust Manhattan ladies’ tennis group" one bit.
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Yale's football coach submits his resignation after his quarterback's very real pursuit of a Rhodes scholarship brought his own Rhodes fibs to light, David Beckham is going to France, and UCLA's football team again insists on going over the wall.
Today in books: Stieg Larsson's longtime girlfriend isn't a fan of Rooney Mara or H&M's The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo clothes, season's greetings from The Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library, and David Foster Wallace's vocabulary sheet from 1997.
You could get a business card with your name on it, one-on-one time with Mr. Met, and not much else
Dick Cheney did not look well at a recent party, James Franco could be appearing as Hugh Hefner in the Linda Lovelace movie, and Bruce Springsteen might be shopping at J. Crew.
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Today in sports: The power outages during last night's Monday night football game have NFL conspiracy theorists buzzing, the Atlanta Braves don't want any of Pixar's magic rubbing off on them, and Japanese pitcher Yu Darvish is headed to Texas.
Today in books: Bill Clinton's five favorite books are heavy reading, Michael Chabon says publishers are getting an unfair share of e-book profits, and The New York Times assembles "a North Korea reading list."
The New York Times has unmasked 80-year-old Cornell alum Charles F. Feeney as the anonymous donor who gave the school a $350 million donation to construct a new technology-based satellite campus on Roosevelt Island in New York City.
Sean Penn and former co-star Maria Conchita Alonso accuse each other of being pigs and communists at LAX, Rep. David Wu is still hanging around Capitol Hill, and Jason Sudeikis and Olivia Wilde are dating, but don't try snapping a photo of them.
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Today in sports: The Montreal Canadiens have hired their first non-French speaking coach since 1984, Kobe Bryant didn't have a prenuptial agreement, and The New York Times profiles NBC's new sports programming czar.
Today in books: Maya Angelou isn't happy about the way Common used an original poem she contributed to his upcoming album, Tim Tebow's success extends to the bestseller charts, and The Wall Street Journal asks 50 different notables about the best book they read in 2011.
James Franco's academic pursuits have produced their first lawsuit, more backstory on that "unreadable" first draft of The Bourne Ultimatum, and Daniel Craig reportedly has an offer to be James Bond for five more movies.
Today in sports: Barry Bonds avoids jail time, Jacksonville Jaguars quarterback Blaine Gabbert looks like a historically bad player, and the NFL is going to upgrade its technology.
Today in books: Oscar Wilde's Tomb has had its last kiss, the British lose an undiscovered Charlotte Bronte manuscript to the French, and picking the year's most overrated books.
The former North Carolina senator has reportedly asked Rielle Hunter to move in to his North Carolina mansion, Pippa Middleton's romantic life chronicled, and Michael Kors made himself $100 million this week
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Today in sports: NFL owners approve the sale of the Jacksonsville Jaguars, former hot young coaching candidate Turner Gill is now coaching for Jerry Falwel, and the Indianapolis Colts will fire coach Jim Caldwell if he fails a complicated and pointless test.
Today in books: an unauthorized Carly Simon biography will restore your faith in unauthorized biographies, a note from Harper Lee to a young fan, and poet Carl Sandburg's house is threatened by Illinois's budget cuts.
Today in sports: The bidding process for star Japanese pitcher Yu Darvish ends tonight, Cleveland Browns president Mike Holmgren thinks his training staff is doing a heckuva job, and Chinese soccer struggles to keep up with the march of progress.
Today in books: Drive follow-up will be released as a paperback this summer, Jonathan Safran Foer's complicated best book of the year criteria, and why print books will always rule the skies.
The case against the bad global economy: people spent $115 million on Elizabeth Taylor's jewels last night
Matt Damon tells GQ that Tony Gilroy's first draft of The Bourne Ultimatum could have been a "career-ender," Mikhail Prokhorov prepares to submit a bid on a media company, and Dnaiel Day-Lewis did not steal Richmond's Christmas
After a long day spent staring at Twitter, we're sharing our favorite tweets that made no sense.
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Today in sports: Albert Pujols' wife was insulted that the St. Louis Cardinals wanted to pay her husband $150 million to play baseball, the cash-strapped New York Mets borrow $40 million, and the New Jersey Nets endorse Mikhail Prokhorov for the Russian presidency
Today in books: How Byliner saves authors from "the dead zone, John Updike's house is for sale on eBay, and David Maraniss is now poking around Barack Obama's college days.
Katie Couric's a single woman, Derek Jeter needs to work on not being an awful cad, and Mitt Romney and Chris Christie had a very big night last night.
After a long day of staring at Twitter, we're sharing our favorite tweets that made no sense.
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Today in sports: Concussions sideline star Pittsburgh Penguins forward Sidney Crosby once again, history is not on Milwaukee Brewers outfielder Ryan Braun's side as he prepares to appeal his positive drug test, and the NFL coaching fates claim Todd Haley.
Today in books: The New York Daily News tips its toe into the world of blog blogging with a picture of a semi-nude Truman Capote, Walter Isaacson's Steve Jobs biography was Amazon's top-selling book of 2011, and "China's Amazon" is going to start selling e-books.
Gary Busey gives Newt Gingrich a key endorsement at a Washington Christmas party, Rob Lowe is writing another book, and Kate Winslet's ex wishes he wasn't Kate Winslet's ex.
After a day of staring at Twitter, we're sharing our favorite tweets that made no sense.
Today in sports: More fallout from the NBA blockbuster trade that wasn't, Fox is a strange position when it comes to the trying to get the Los Angeles Dodgers TV rights, and Cleveland Browns quarterback Colt McCoy's dad has harsh words for the way the team treated his head injury last night.
Today in books: Amazon's disappearing gold badges, the messy scrawl of Charles Dickens, and Jeff Bezos is testing the patience of America's independent booksellers once more.
Salman Rushdie makes a hasty offer of marriage to the one that got away, Eddie Murphy is rumored to be starting in a Marion Berry biopic for HBO, and Fabrizio Moretti resurfaces to kiss more ladies.
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