newsmakers-2011
Feuds: fightin’ words
From Google and Apple to Newfoundland and a ballooning moose population–bad blood runs deep
Comebacks: many happy returns
From Sidney Crosby, through Gabrielle Giffords to Crocs–this year’s memorable revivals
Two steps back
From Julian Assange to RIM–this year’s reversals of fortune
Setbacks: Rupert Murdoch
The media mogul has always had an unsavoury reputation, but he had never looked weak or ineffectual before
Comebacks: the Winnipeg Jets
All hail Marc Chipman, or Jesus of the prairies
Breakups: Sayonara!
From George Clooney and Elisabetta Canalis to Lauro Garza and the GOP–a tour of this year’s splitsville
Mergers: Sarkozying up to the chancellor
How Europe’s power couple makes the unlikeliest of pairs
Mergers: And they all lived happily ever after
From Shania Twain and Frédéric Thiébaud to the Huffington Post and AOL–this year’s best love stories
Entrances: Pippa Middleton
Like Kate, Pippa has perfected the “say nothing, keep smiling” strategy
Entrances: She’s the one to watch
From Tavi Gevinson to Maria Aragon, 2011 had plenty of dynamite girls
Exits: the newly departed
From Oprah to Glenn Beck: the ones who bowed out, and those who were booted out
Entrances: Bursting on the scene
From the IMF’s first pink ribbon at the top to the new country on the map–a close look at this year’s newcomers