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If you've been anywhere on the Internet for the past few weeks, you've heard about Stop Online Piracy Act and Protect Intellectual Property Act, two pieces of legislation currently being considered by Congress.
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The year concludes with a slew of celebrity scandals
Welcome back to Brandeis, dear readers! Let me start out by making a correction to my last article of fall semester, where I mentioned that my mother's favorite television show is Teen Mom. This is apparently not true, and she only watches it with my sister because it is, and I quote, "the best birth control ever!" My tuition may depend on this paragraph making it into JustArts. (Hi, Mom!) The last month has been very exciting for those of us following the world of celebrities.
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Hello Brandeis! It's been a mild break here in Waltham, weather-wise, but in celebrity-land things have been anything but uneventful!
Meryl Streep awes in otherwise flawed film
The Iron Lady will probably get an Oscar nomination for Best Picture and director Phyllida Lloyd knows it.
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This week on Glee, Glee Club leader Finn (Cory Monteith) outed lesbian cheerleader Santana (Naya Rivera) in the middle of McKinley High School's famously homophobic hallways during a heated argument.
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A few years ago, a barely post-pubescent Canadian kid released a song called "Baby," which led to a phenomenon of tweenage girls going crazy and adults wishing for earplugs every time they turned on a radio. Fast-forward to today and it looks like Justin Bieber is having "baby" issues of a completely different sort. Last week, 20-year-old Mariah Yeater (don't worry, she's not famous, you're not supposed to recognize her name) came forward to announce that Bieber is the father of her three-month-old son and that she is suing him for child support. Yeater was featured on The Insider on Nov.
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So remember how, over the summer, Kim Kardashian was on the cover of every magazine in existence, going on and on about how excited she was to get married and how this was going to be the best decision she ever made and how it didn't matter that it was costing millions of dollars because she was going to have her happily ever after? Well, it didn't take. This week, after only 72 days of marriage, Kim Kardashian filed for divorce from her husband, Kris Humphries.
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I love an action movie as much as the next girl?really, I do. The fights, the excitement and the explosions all make for a fantastic movie-watching experience.
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Remember how a few weeks ago I said we'd be able to get away from hardcore social issues as soon as Lindsay Lohan screwed up again? Guess what?
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Let it never be said that England is still fussy and old-fashioned! According to news reports from across the pond, Prime Minister David Cameron's government is working to change existing rules of inheritance of the British crown.
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