Polls show Petro Poroshenko ahead of former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko in Sunday’s election. The Euromaidan protestors in Kiev who ousted former president Viktor Yanukovich sought an end to the corruption, selective justice and crony capitalism that had plagued the country since the fall of the Soviet Union. How ironic then that the man who will likely be elected president of Ukraine this Sunday is a leading representative of this old way of doing things. Petro Poroshenko is an oligarch who has shifted political allegiances—even serving in the Yanukovich government—and exploited political ties for commercial gain. But whereas most […]

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"I was not a comic book reader," Patrick Stewart says, with a distinct note of apology. "Not those kind, anyway. I read storybook comics, and when I was much younger I read children’s cartoons. But I never read, nor indeed had any interest in, any of the Marvel-superhero type of comics." There was a time when an eminent 73-year-old actor wouldn’t feel obliged to apologize for that lapse in four-color literacy, but that was before superhero movies ate Hollywood. And it’s partially his own fault: It wouldn’t have happened without the success of 2000’s X-Men, the first real Marvel […]

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If even these political opposites can agree on a few things, is there possibly hope that Washington can still align to get things done? When you think of the funniest personalities in Washington, Ralph Nader doesn’t spring to mind. The longtime anti-corporate crusader is one of the most serious people in politics, but when anti-tax activist Grover Norquist told him he would have fun participating in a standup comedy contest, Nader agreed to do it. And even though he’s been on Saturday Night Live five times, he played off his humorless reputation, admitting he didn’t know how to laugh, […]

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Triumph the Insult Comic Dog, the cigar-chomping rubber hand-puppet character from "Late Night With Conan O’Brien," will be getting his own series soon on Adult Swim. Some may question this, but no, you can never have too much Triumph the Insult Comic Dog. On Friday, Adult Swim unveiled its new and returning series for the 2014-15 season, and with an extra hour of programming — Adult Swim on Cartoon Network now runs from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. — it has plenty of time to fill. Which is why the channel announced 30 new and returning programs for the […]

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Intimate photographs should be deleted at the end of a relationship if one of the partners calls for it, a court in Germany has ruled. The ruling by the Koblenz higher regional court has resonated throughout a digital world grappling with the balance between freedom of expression and privacy . It was welcomed by experts who said it would empower victims of “revenge porn” to be more proactive when seeking the deletion of compromising images. In the case concerned, a man from the Lahn-Dill region in Hesse had taken several erotic photographs of his female partner, to which she […]

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