Is there a Most Notorious People list?

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We’ve never really been a big fan of People magazine’s Most Beautiful People list, particularly because we’re never on it. (And what’s the difference between this list and the Sexiest People list, which last year included Eddie Steeples—aka the Rubberband Man?) This year’s inclusion of teenage kidnapping victim Elizabeth Smart as a Most Beautiful Person strikes us as more than a little off-putting. And we’re not the only ones. At the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, which Smart attended as a guest of the magazine, at

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