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What Shall I Name My New Hereford Cattle? [Martha Stewart]
Earlier: Martha Stewart Wants You to Name Her Cows

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We say Chris. Ever since Uma went redhead for Batman & Robin, we've never been able to take her seriously. Sorry, her hair seriously.
Chris Matthews Debuts New Hairdo [HuffPo]

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Who’s your favorite New Yorker, living or dead, real or fictional?
Lena Mary Calhoun Horne.
What’s the best meal you’ve eaten in New York?
Fancy? Babbo. Almost always? Salmon cakes and grits at the Usual on Vanderbilt, in Brooklyn.
Chinatown: Locals want efforts to stem outrageous development in the East Village and on the Lower East Side to be extended down here, too. [Villager]
Gramercy: This smart, young blogger still wears Uggs, loves JetBlue's new ad campaign, and is so glad that the Sean Bell protests were a flop, because Bell had to be doing something shady at that dive, right? Don't you wanna move to Gramercy just to be her friend? [Gramercy Cafe]
Greenpoint: Just in time for summer, the 'point gets its own swimming pool! And, fittingly, the water is, well, green. [Newyorkshitty]

Alongside the aura of invincibility, the Clinton team projected something else [to fund-raisers]: a tacit message that it was time for big-dollar Democrats to choose between Obama and Hillary. On the bus or off the bus. No hedging allowed. And apostates would pay a price. For some in the party, the tactic struck a nerve. “It’s almost like a shakedown—you’re with us or you’re not,” Jim Neal, a North Carolina investment banker who was on an early conference call with McAuliffe, told the Times. “I find the squeeze, this early, to be quite vulgar … It’s a bullying tactic.”
Replace "fund-raisers" with "superdelegates" and you could have had that exact paragraph in a story last month. It's almost impossible to believe that we've been rethinking the same story lines for over a year now. In his Time piece, Klein rejoices that it's almost over: "A general-election campaign between John McCain and Barack Obama doesn't need any hype," he says. "It won't be boring." It's funny, we have no idea what boring is anymore.
Klein on Obama [Time]
Money Chooses Sides [NYM]

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• Jimmy Carter: In some ways he's the obvious choice. The last Democratic president save one, a respected party elder. But his recent meeting with Hamas coupled with today's gasoline prices, evoking the misery of 1979, make this unlikely.
• Nancy Pelosi and/or Harry Reid: They've stayed studiously neutral throughout the race, a few hints from Pelosi that she's a closet Obamaphile aside, but both said they are anxious to get the nominee race settled well before the convention. They have a new Congress to get elected, and all this focus on the presidential race is limiting their ability to do that.
FINANCE
• AIG posts $7.8 billion in losses this quarter, dwarfing the $5.8 billion they recorded last quarter (and you thought $5.8 billion was a number that couldn't be "dwarfed"). The insurance giant will be raising $12.5 billion in capital. [WSJ]
• Vikram Pandit is still engaged in spring cleaning at Citigroup. Sell, sell, sell! [NYT]
• "Shame on you! You lied!" says one Bear employee to his bosses. "And, of course, the loyal employees your glib lies hurt the most are those who earned the least, the Associates." [DealBreaker]

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Gyllenhaal with Housing Works CEO Charles King.Photo: Getty Images
So, when we got to chat with the evening's host, Maggie Gyllenhaal, who recently bought a brownstone in Park Slope, we wanted to talk shelter with her. Did the rooms in her 'stone, where she lives with her toddler, Ramona, and baby daddy, actor Peter Sarsgaard, look as good as the ones at the benefit? "We're still really in the process of — so far, most of the design things that we've chosen are not actually furniture choices as much as tiles and fixtures and that kind of thing," she said, eating a mini-burger. (She'd been shooting a Marie Claire Batman cover all day, and girlfriend was tired and hungry.) "I kind of need to get another movie before I furnish it."

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Murdoch: "This isn't the offer you're looking for."
Zell: "This isn't the offer I'm looking for." Photo: AFP/Getty Images
Sources: Cablevision's Newsday bid taken seriously [Newsday]

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Hooray! We thought that the writer-on-an-insane-drug-binge meme was dead. But it's not — it's fully alive. In fact, Carr tells us exactly what it's like to be a young media person on crack. We have no idea if this is how it was when Whitney Houston did it, but we'd like to imagine it that way. After the jump, Carr describes his life with Anna, the mother of his twin daughters, whom he met while she was dealing cocaine.
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