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Best of the Web: Work it, Girl! Edition

*Russian spy Anna Chapman gets her own action figure in the United States. Gets serenaded by Russian President Vladimir Putin?

*Colorado Senate candidate Ken Buck says that you should vote for him in the Republican primary because, unlike his opponent, he does “not wear high heels.” Maybe we should start a “Ken Buck Should Campaign in Some High Heels First Before Opening His Mouth” group on Facebook?

*Steve McCurry, whose magnificent photo of “The Afghan Girl” graced the cover of National Geographic in 1985, develops the last roll of Kodachrome.

*Mary Magdalene stars as a call girl in The Disciple, a secular cinematic rendition of the life of Jesus. Um, and it’s totally set to a Flamenco soundtrack!

 

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Nonna Gorilovskaya

Nonna Gorilovskaya is the founder and editor of Women and Foreign Policy. She is a senior editor at Moment Magazine and a researcher for NiemanWatchdog.org, a project of Harvard University's Nieman Foundation for Journalism. Prior to her adventures in journalism, she studied the role of nationalism in the breakup of the Soviet Union as a U.S. Fulbright scholar to Armenia. She is a graduate of U.C. Berkeley, where she grew addicted to lattes, and St. Antony's College, Oxford, where she acquired a fondness for Guinness and the phrase "jolly good."

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Journalism; Gender Issues; Social Policy

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