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January 16, 2008

R&B singer Ike Turner, who some consider a father of rock-n-roll, did not go gently into that good night when he died at his home near San Diego in December. In fact, the 76-year-old was high, high, high on cocaine. The coroner reports that he died of "cocaine toxicity." And while it's sad when anyone dies of drug use -- because generally, we figure nobody starts partying with the idea that it's going to......

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November 13, 2006

Monday Night "Monday Night Football" (ESPN, 5:30 p.m.) Buccaneers @ Panthers "Kingdom Come" (IFC, 6:00 p.m.) Feel good neo-blacksploitation flick starring LL Cool J, Jada Pinkett Smith, Vivica A. Fox "College Football" (PRIME 42, 7:00 p.m.) Oregon @ USC "NHL Hockey" (Fox Sports, 7:30 p.m.) Sharks @ Kings "Prison Break" (FOX, 8 p.m.) see if these guys finally make it out of prison before the show goes on extended hiatus "Two and a Half......

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July 4, 2006

Blake Gottesman, not Karl Rove, is the most influential man in the United States, as he truly has the President's ear. The 26-year-old college dropout (he attended Claremont McKenna College for one year in 1999) has been President Bush's special assistant and personal aide for the last four years. How powerful is Mr. Gottesman? This May he became one of the very few (if not only) applicants who was admitted into Harvard's Business School......

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