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US socialite and journalist Arianna Huffington is to launch a super blog featuring contributions by a host of her celebrity chums, from Gwyneth Paltrow to Norman Mailer. Tim Dowling got a preview Wednesday April 27, 2005 The Guardian Welcome!!!!! posted by "Huff" on Mon May 9 2005 at 09:00 PDT Hi everybody! Allow me to introduce my innovative new publishing venture, a groundbreaking "group blog", where over 250 creative minds from every corner of my Rolodex weigh in on topics ranging from the political to the personal, and anything in between! Well, that's enough from me - let's blog! comments...

Understanding the California Recall There's plenty of confusion about the special rules and weird circumstances of the recall election. The more people who understand what's going on, the better. Here's our attempt to clear up a few things. Getting the Recall on the Ballot More than one million registered voters signed a petition to recall Governor Gray Davis. That was more than 12 percent of the number that voted in last year's gubernatorial election – the number needed to put the recall on the ballot. So, on October 7, California will vote on whether to recall Davis. What Exactly Are...

A Huffington-Green deal?Arianna Huffington claimed on Sunday that Green Party candidate Peter Camejo had agreed to drop out and support her in the California Governor's race.Huffington told the gathering that she has won key Green Party support, with Peter Camejo, the partys recall candidate, agreeing to drop out and back her after she announces.'He told me that now is the time for the Green Party to be a part of a winning campaign to change the political structure.'Camejo won 5 percent of the vote running against Grey Davis last year, and with some analyists predicting the next governor could be...