Three months as a hostage in Iraq may have earned Christian Science Monitor reporter Jill Carroll a Harvard fellowship, but it can't help her escape the disdain of Boston Herald gossip columnists Gayle Fee and Laura Raposa. Indignant at Carroll's refusal to do an interview when accosted in a bar by a Fox assignment editor, Fee and Raposa note that despite Carroll's "pedestrian" education, her new gig at Harvard has made "one rather full of oneself." Probably didn't help that Carroll declined to comment further for the Herald, but really — how long is she going to ride that taken-hostage train, anyway? Note that this is the top gossip item in the Fee-Raposa column. New Yorkers, thank your lucky starlets.

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• WTC Commemorative coins "clad in 24 KT gold and .999 Pure Silver recovered from Ground Zero!" The best part? The twin towers actually pop up from the coin — so if you're a terrorist, you can buy it to watch the towers go down over and over again. [National Collector's Mint]
• The most damning assessment of them all: "The buzz around Radar is totally unrelated to reality." [New York Business]
• The real tragedy of Christian Science Monitor reporter Jill Carroll's ordeal as a hostage in Iraq? That she's now running free with that hair. [CBS]
• Jaqueline Passey has "a *lot*" of options when it comes to dating. But because she's an arrogant twit, she'll remain single. [Jaqueline Passey]
• ABC's Dancing With the Stars hits a new low for its upcoming season: not content to merely feature the waltzing skills of Tucker Carlson, they've also cast Emmitt Smith and Jerry Springer as contestants. [B&C]
• Hipster girls don't respond well to the banker boys of Craigslist. [CL]
• Simon Dumenco has seen the future of the Today show, and it involves Jell-o wrestling. Hallelujah! [AdAge]