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2010: The Year Sarah Palin Became Queen of All Media

Move on over, Oprah. There's a new media queen in town. In a feat that may have seemed impossible at the conclusion of 2009, Sarah Palin became an even more visible national personality in 2010. After she and Republican presidential nominee John McCain lost the 2008 election by some 8 million votes to Barack Obama and...

2010 News Quotes Quiz: Who Said It?

2010 was such a bumpy ride that this quote epitomizes the year: "Heads down! Stay down!" That's what a flight attendant shouted over and over as an airliner made an emergency landing at New York's JFK Airport in September. Of course, the moment was recorded on cell phone video and watched by millions. Here are 10 more...

2010 News Quotes Quiz: Who Said It? [ANSWERS]

Here are the answers to the 2010 Quotes Quiz with details about who said what and why -- plus some information on the people who didn't say these things, but might have. 1. "There's no one who wants this thing over more than I do. You know, I'd like my life back." Answer: C. Tony Hayward All three of the newsmakers...

Refudiate: From Sarah Palin Twitter Fail to Word of the Year

(Nov. 15) -- It's hard to refudiate. The New Oxford American Dictionary has named "refudiate" as its 2010 word of the year. The term, which heretofore was not actually considered an English-language word, was popularized by Sarah Palin this past summer on her Twitter feed. Here's how the star of "Sarah Palin's Alaska"...

Wordsmith Declares 'Spillcam' Top Word of 2010

(Nov. 15) -- There are still six weeks left in 2010, but word has it, the word of the year has already been chosen: "spillcam." That's the final word from Paul JJ Payack, president of The Global Language Monitor, a group that tracks word usage trends worldwide. "We search millions of websites and more than 75,000 print...

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Sarah Palin, while serving as Governor of Alaska, was nominated as the first female candidate of the Republican Party for Vice President of the United States.

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