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In the four years after his first White House bid, John Edwards stayed in the spotlight. In the four months since he abandoned his second bid, he's all but disappeared. A quick interview with Jay Leno. A couple of low-key speeches. A few North Carolina basketball games with his wife and children. That's about it. If Edwards has made up his mind between Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton, not only is he keeping quiet about it, he's not even putting himself in a position where he might be asked. The silence from Chapel Hill hasn't gone unnoticed. "I'd...

For God's sake, Paltrow, we can't talk about the article you read in my paper, writes RICK GROEN. Couldn't you be a bit more self-absorbed? 'I've just finished reading this long article in your paper on the corrosion of the American empire," declares Gwyneth enthusiastically from her perch on a hotel-room couch. Actually, if couches were countries, she's got this one pretty well occupied -- slim legs, clad in black capri pants, tucked captivatingly beneath that elongated body; blond hair tumbling in golden tresses past those cornflower-blue eyes down upon a white silk blouse. Gwyneth, needless to say, looks immaculate....

Michael Moore has broken his post-election silence in two messages posted on his website. The first, posted Thursday, listed his “first thoughts after the election,” which turned out to be the names of all who died on September 11. He ended the post by asking them to “forgive us.” A second message was posted today entitled “17 Reasons Not to Slit Your Wrists,” in which he tries, to no avail, to put a positive spin on the election results for liberals around the country. The “Reasons” include that George W. Bush cannot run again, that he had a “narrow” victory...