Fresh from the slammer, disgraced celebrity publicist Lizzie Grubman is trying to rehabilite her image by teaching a three-hour class called "How to Succeed in Public Relations and Image Marketing." According to O'Dwyer's PR Daily, Grubman's presentation included two and a half hours of Q&A in which "she did not mention the 2001 hit-and-run incident at Conscience Point in the Hamptons which landed her in jail, and some questions submitte

The Competitive Enterprise Institute, a Washington DC-based think tank that is funded by right-wing foundations and industries that deny global warming, sued the Bush administration over its 2000 report on climate change. The New York Times reports CEI is trying to stop the government from distributing the report, saying it is inaccurate and biased.

"A tobacco company is offering a free lifetime supply of cigarettes to celebrity smokers as part of a guerrilla marketing campaign to raise the public profile of its recently launched brand," the Associated Press reports. "In a tersely worded pitch, Freedom Tobacco International Inc. said it was seeking to 'seed' its cigarettes with adult celebrities. The appeal was made Tuesday to publicists through a Web-based network subscribed to by hundreds of public relations agencies. ...