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It’s been a rocky rollout for the Wendy Davis campaign in Texas. She announced for governor four months ago on the strength of the massive public attention paid to her 13-hour filibuster of a bill limiting abortions after the 20th week of pregnancy. But since then her media operation has been so rocky, seasoned Texas journalists are mocking it. David Mann, editor of the liberal Texas Observer, wrote a blunt article calling her campaign a “media fail”: “The Wendy Davis operation is about the worst at media relations that I’ve ever seen. Her team’s mismanagement of the press is damaging...

With an Oscar in the bag, it is hard to imagine Halle Berry would have to fight too hard for acting roles. But the Hollywood A-lister says she has to audition for parts like every other actor. "I have to fight for almost every job I ever get ... the ones that I really want to do," said Berry in Cannes, promoting her latest film, X-Men: The Last Stand. "I am not complaining but there is a little thing called racism that this movie X-Men speaks about that, honestly, people like me still suffer from on some level. Berry explained...

Cheerleader Chant Leads To Driver Involved In Crash Police Trace License Plate To Ann Arbor Man POSTED: 3:46 pm EDT August 5, 2005 A team of cheerleaders attending a camp in Ann Arbor did what came naturally after witnessing a crash on Wednesday afternoon. The Lincoln High School varsity cheerleading squad turned a license plate number into a cheer when a man driving a pickup truck involved in the collision fled the scene, according to the Ann Arbor News. "We just started to chant it so we'd remember it and help them get the guy," senior captain Kimmie Ostrowski told...

Birth Name: Paris Whitney HiltonBirthdate: February 17, 1981Birthplace: New York, New YorkOccupations: Actor, Writer, Musician, ModelQuote: "That's hot." Claim to Fame: Heiress to the Hilton Hotel empire

An unscientific America Online poll taken during Teresa Heinz Kerry's Democratic Convention speech shows that Americans think she's a major drag on the Kerry-Edwards ticket....