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Burberry, Britain’s once-staid fashion house, can’t help it if Sarah Palin wears their trademark plaid scarves. “[T]he conspicuousness of the pattern also means that the company has little control over how it is seen, or on whom,” the New Yorker magazine observed, in reference to Palin. Minneapolis has the same problem: today the Mill City [...]

Wednesday was a rough day for U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman in the three-ring circus of his re-election effort, but things could have been worse.
Coleman announced that he intends to attempt a risky use of campaign funds to pay high-priced attorneys and investigators to defend against charges that could result from an FBI investigation into $75,000 that his benefactor, [...]

Sen. Norm Coleman refuses to acknowledge whether or not campaign donor Nasser Kazeminy paid for very expensive suits for Coleman at Neiman Marcus in Minneapolis. Ken Silverstein, the ace investigative reporter at Harper’s magazine, started the fuss a couple of days ago when he reported that two independent sources told him that Kazeminy had bought [...]