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Bank bonus tax cost Goldman Sachs $600m

Head of Goldman Sachs, Lloyd Blankfein, said activity dropped in the second quarter. Photograph: Ramin Talaie/EPA Alistair Darling’s one-off bank bonus tax cost Goldman Sachs $600m (£395m), the Wall Street bank said today as it revealed that its wage and bonus bill reached $9.2bn in the first half of the year – $235,000 per employee. [...]

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MTV’s If You Really Knew Me Breaks Boundaries One High School at a Time

High School is notorious for cliques. So what if the jocks or nerds or outcasts tried to learn more about each other? In MTV’s new series If You Really Knew Me (Tuesday at 11/10c), students participate in a one-day program called Challenge Day that tries to break down the walls among these different circles. Leikin, [...]

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Courtney Love’s bizarre style blog

Courtney Love Photograph: Maury Phillips/WireImage Courtney Love’s new fashion blog, What Courtney Wore Today, isn’t fooling anyone. The setup is that it is posted via an apparently likeminded, anonymous amanuensis called “L” or sometimes “T” (and sometimes “X” ), who is chained to a Mac somewhere in America while “CLC” (that’s “Courtney Love Cobain”) travels the [...]

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Teen Star, 18, Gets Botox to Look ‘Fresh’ for ‘Glee’ Debut

AP Filipino singer Charice had botox done on her face despite being only 18 years old for her debut on the hit show “Glee.” MANILA, Philippines Filipino teenage singer Charice Pempengco says she prepared for her debut on the hit TV show “Glee” by getting Botox and an anti-aging procedure “to look fresh on camera.” [...]

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