Prime-time TV is awash in soaps
As the bubble bursts on daytime soap operas, the tide is turning on the nighttime versions
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scandal
Turned away from an exam for skinny jeans
"I thought he was joking," says student
When professors plagiarize
Star academics get light punishments for lifting ideas
Monaco’s royal pains
Charlene Wittstock, set to marry Prince Albert, is joining a clan with more scandals per kilometre than any other royal family
Coyne v. Wells on the Conservatives’ “in-and-out” campaign scandal
Plus: the Tories’ decision not to fund Quebec City’s new hockey arena
Sarkozy vs. the press
Laptop thefts, surveillance, threats—French journalists are complaining of a new era of media intimidation
Newsmakers
Skeletons in Princess Victoria’s closet, Dick Cheney meets his match, and LeBron James goes home
Rogues’ gallery
Hollywood is refusing to forgive Mel Gibson, Woods blamed golf for his problems
Together at last
Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem, Molson-Coors and Labatt Blue, The NHL and Stan Lee
Grace under fire
He didn’t foresee the long-running sex abuse scandal suddenly igniting, but the Pope showed surprising openness in dealing with it