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Not a nomad: Unusual traveler looks for way into politics
Warning: this won't work for everybody. It helps to be female, smokin' hot and be able to lie comfortably through your teeth. When you travel, I suspect you don't roll like Anna Chapman. Rather than book a flight, get a room at an upscale hotel (or pay-by-the-hour joint) and see the usual sights, she truly blended in like a local ... and kept here eyes on the sorts of attraction that people back in Moscow want to hear about it.
In case you're a bit behind, Anna Chapman's not one of these nomads who scrapes for a living here and there between or during random excursions for self-fulfillment. Rather, she took a four-year extended business trip that ultimately landed her in handcuffs before sending her back to the motherland in a spook-swap.
Anna Chapman was a Russian spy.
And, in case you're extremely dim, the only reason you know her name and nobody else's is because "drop-dead" is more than just her job. Now that she can't lurk in our dark alleys any more, Chapman's looking for a job, and if life cuts her way, it will be in politics.
The hottie agent has already drummed up some name recognition and celebrity status – to the point where she has to "wear sunglasses and a hat on the street," she tells Der Spiegel. It's a good problem to have when you're running for office. Der Spiegel continues:
Her next step is to get her website "up and running," according to Chapman, which will have the contact details for her publicist ... utterly predictable for the recently (in)famous.
Maybe she'll get a call from Steven Slater for advice. Like Chapman, he probably can't go back to his old line of work, and starting from scratch when you've been plastered all over the media can be so difficult.
[Via Business Insider, photo via Facebook]
Russia has been consumed by a Chapman cult since her return. The tabloids print page after page of love confessions by her previous boyfriends. In her hometown of Volgograd, known as the "City of Heroes" for its role in World War II, members of the city council have proposed making the 28-year-old an honorable citizen.
Her next step is to get her website "up and running," according to Chapman, which will have the contact details for her publicist ... utterly predictable for the recently (in)famous.
Maybe she'll get a call from Steven Slater for advice. Like Chapman, he probably can't go back to his old line of work, and starting from scratch when you've been plastered all over the media can be so difficult.
[Via Business Insider, photo via Facebook]
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