AP - If Barack Obama wants a surgeon general with visibility to promote health issues in his administration, it can't hurt to hire a CNN correspondent called one of People magazine's "sexiest men alive."

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Reuters - Public figures must shiver when Peter Morgan shows up at a cocktail party.

AP - The Hong Kong government has agreed to preserve a former home of late martial arts legend Bruce Lee and turn it into a tourist attraction, an official said Wednesday.

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Reuters - The Sundance Film Festival won't begin for eight days, but already it has seen its first prominent acquisitions target enter the negotiation phase.

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A year after her mother’s assassination, 18-year-old Bakhtawar Bhutto Zardari wrote and performed a rap ballad in memory of Pakistani premier Benazir Bhutto, which was packaged as a music video, aired on state television, and has since found its way to YouTube, where at least one upload has been viewed upwards of 30,000 times.

I Would Take Away The Pain combines video, art and photos of the fallen leader with a scrolling lyrics crawl. It’s a heartfelt piece, although perhaps a little heavily produced and stylized — there also could have been more structure to how the clips of Bhutto were assembled. But before you jump down my throat for offering that minor piece of criticism, you might check out The National Press’s Ampersand blog, which reviewed Bhutto’s efforts much more harshly:

However you might feel about the actual execution of the piece, it’s an undeniable only-in-the-21st-century sort of moment. Bakhtawar is 18, after all, part of a generation for which sharing emotions like grief in public via the Internet is second nature. One can only imagine what will happen when Malia Obama, now 10, is old enough for MySpace.

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