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On Friday's "Ellen DeGeneres Show," Oprah Winfrey makes a surprise appearance and extends a special invitation to Ellen!Appearing via TV from her office in Chicago, Lady O grants one of Ellen's greatest wishes: "I am calling to officially invite you on the cover [of O magazine]," says Oprah."I can't believe you're serious about this. I'm freaking out right now!" Ellen exclaims.

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George Bush's tome, Decision Points, will describe the former president's thoughts behind key choices in his lifeA rash of recent best-sellers on how we make decisions, from Malcolm Gladwell's Blink to Freakonomics, have shown that we're not always as rational as we might like to think. But now it's time for those authors to step aside: America's decider-in-chief, a man not infrequently accused of making irrational choices, is writing his own book on decision-making.In contrast to the traditional blow-by-blow presidential memoir, George Bush's tome, provisionally entitled Decision Points, will describe how he took on 12 key political and personal decisions, including the invasion of Iraq, his response to Hurricane Katrina, running for president, and giving up alcohol. 'I want people to understand the environment in which I was making decisions,' Bush said. 'I want people to get a sense of how decisions were made and I want people to understand the options that were placed before me.'An

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Former president George Bush's forthcoming book on the decisions he made while in office will be published by Random House division CrownThe Decider is writing a book about the decisions he decided upon. George Bush's book, which he has almost certainly, but not definitely, decided to call Decision Points, has been acquired by Random House division Crown - which also publishes Barack Obama and Condoleezza Rice - and is scheduled for release in 2010.It will focus on around 12 choices the former US president made on both a personal and presidential level, from the war in Iraq to giving up drinking, his response to Hurricane Katrina, and his religious faith.'I want people to understand the environment in which I was making decisions. I want people to get a sense of how decisions were made and I want people to understand the options that were placed before me,' Bush told the Associated Press in a brief telephone interview yesterday.He said he started the book two days after leaving the Whi