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Burberry and Minneapolis share a fashion link to Palin, like it or not

By Chris Steller | 11.19.09 | 11:38 am

sara scarfBurberry, 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,”…

For Norm Coleman, things could be worse

By Chris Steller | 12.18.08 | 1:47 pm

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

Coleman and Kazeminy: ‘The Senator has reported every gift he’s ever received’

By Andy Birkey | 10.08.08 | 2:35 pm

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…