In this special edition of NewsFeed’s Wednesday Words column, our resident vocabulary nut rounds up proposed “words of the year.” Vote for the one that really deserves the title.
One choice lyric: “Listen to them when you have a thirst for caresses, sing them when you are hungry for tenderness.”
Call it small talk, but a new study into voter perceptions has found that Republican front-runner Mitt Romney could hold the edge in next year’s U.S. elections. If only by an inch.
George Clooney, star of the upcoming film The Ides of March, sat down with our managing editor, Rick Stengel, on Wednesday for TIME’s 10 Questions.
The Hollywood actor’s new role, if greenlit, will be filmed by many cameras and viewed around the world. And when he says his lines, George Clooney won’t have the safety net of a script to fall back on if he ends up testifying in the Italian Prime Minister’s trial.
“Even though I am a little mischievous … 33 girls in two months seems like too much even for a 30-year-old.” – SILVIO BERLUSCONI, Italian premier, on court documents for an upcoming trial which allege 33 women prostituted themselves during parties at the 74-year-old’s villa (via AP)
Tens of thousands of anti-nuclear protesters formed a chain in Stuttgart, Germany on Saturday, which marked the biggest anti-nuclear demonstration since the Chernobyl disaster 25 years ago.
Did the Italian prime minister slip on some sleaze and hit his head?
The latest WikiLeaks dump includes a quarter million state department documents and almost as many diplo-disses. Which world leader was called a “flabby old chap?” Read on to find out. (Hint: It’s not Berlusconi.)
The collapse of an ancient house in Pompeii could be just the beginning.
