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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Hair Club for Men founder Sy Sperling, famous for the TV commercials where he proclaimed “I'm not only the Hair Club president but I'm also a client,” died in Florida. He was 78. Sperling died Wednesday in Boca Raton after a lengthy illness, spokeswoman Terri Lynn said Thursday. In the late 1960s, Sperling was a balding New York City swimming pool salesman who was growing frustrated with toupees. "If you're dating and going to be having special moments, how do you explain, 'I got to take my hair off now?'" he said.

Peter Orszag, the current director of the Congressional Budget Office, smiles as he listens to U.S. President-elect Barack Obama speak about choosing Orszag as his choice for director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) during a news conference in Chicago November 25, 2008.

It is the haircut that will not die. He can spin it, he can gel it, he can mousse it. But it is not going away. John Edwards' $400 haircuts will live forever. The Smithsonian Institution is probably trying to find the clippings now. They will be put in a glass case so schoolchildren of the future can learn from them. I was willing never to write about the haircuts again. Edwards got two of them for $400 each and charged them to his campaign, which means he charged them to his campaign contributors. When this became public, he said...

Saturday, September 17, 2005 Memo to Sen. Kerry TO: Sen. John F. Kerry FROM: William J. Dyer (a/k/a Beldar) RE: Limitations Spectacular lawyer though you may (or may not) be in your own right, I know your staff includes some agile and diligent legal minds. Nevertheless, in the interests of fairness, I feel obliged to remind you of the fact that Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry by John E. O'Neill and Jerome R. Corsi — which spent several weeks at No. 1 on the NYT Bestsellers List before last year's presidential election — was...

North Korean leader Kim Jong-il greets Japanese Prime Minister Koizumi