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Ann Curry bids a tearful farewell to Today. But she does get one final dig in:

They’re giving me some fancy new titles, which essentially means that I’m going to get tickets to every big story we want to cover.

Those fancy new titles are: Today Anchor at Large and National and International Correspondent for NBC News. What a mouthful. [Watch her say goodbye here]

There is no tomorrow. USA Today reports that this morning is Ann Curry’s last day on Today.

It’s “going to be a bit of a tough day,” she told USA TODAY in a 40-minute phone interview Wednesday, sounding as though she were fighting back tears. “I’m going to have to tell our viewers. That’s what makes me more emotional than anything. I don’t want to leave them. I love them. And I will really miss them.”

brooklynmutt:

Today in unfortunate chyrons

(EW.com)

#PoorCurry.

I love Ann Curry’s inability to hide her disdain for sharing co-hosting duties with Sarah Palin. 

Bill Clinton and Mindy Kaling pick their must-have books of the holiday season. Upon reviewing Clinton’s list, Mindy said she would have chosen more “PhD-friendly books.” That’s just silly…

Watch the clip (and hear Ann Curry say ‘semen’) and check out their book selections below:

Mindy Kaling’s list

1. “11/22/63” By Stephen King
2. “Bossypants” By Tina Fey 
3. “Lady Gaga X Terry Richardson” By Lady Gaga and Terry Richardson 
4. “My Father’s Daughter: Delicious, Easy Recipes Celebrating Family & Togetherness”  By Gwyneth Paltrow 
5. “Alexander McQueen Savage Beauty” By Andrew Bolton
6. “The Girl in the Green Raincoat: A Tess Monaghan Novel” By Laura Lippman 
7. “The Marriage Plot: A Novel” By Jeffrey Eugenides 
8. “Look I Made a Hat: Collected Lyrics (1981-2011) with Attendant Comments, Amplifications, Dogmas, Harangues, Digressions, Anecdotes and Miscellany” By Stephen Sondheim
9. “The Art of Fielding” By Chad Harbach 
10. “What to Wear, Where: The How-to Handbook for Any Style Situation” By Hilary Kerr and Katherine Power

Bill Clinton’s list  

1. “Jerusalem” By Simon Sebag Montefiore 
2. “Lincoln” By David Herbert Donald
3. “Meditations” By Marcus Aurelius 
4. “The Way of the World: From the Dawn of Civilizations to the Eve of the Twenty-First Century” By David Fromkin
5. “The Cure at Troy: A Version of Sophocles’ Philoctetes” By Seamus Heaney 
6. “One Hundred Years of Solitude” By Gabriel Garcia Marquez
7. “King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa” By Adam Hochschild
8. “Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny” By Robert Wright