Sadly, the spammers have long since grown savvy. They now dissemble behind innocent-looking addresses and send messages like: 'Just wrote to say Hi.' This is a lie. They wrote because they want to sell you spare parts for abdominisers.

Princess Sonja, the daughter of an Oslo fashion house director, married Crown Prince Harald last summer after a will-they-won't-they romance that had gone on for a decade.

Music and politics have a very strange relationship because music is responsive, politics is kind of... conscriptive, in a sense.

Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers.[…]Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster. Clever financial ploys are what have made billionaires of the industry’s veterans. “Operational improvement” in a portfolio company has often meant little more than promising colossal bonuses to sitting chief executives if they meet ambitious growth targets. That model is still prevalent today.