Two news items in one: 1) Tyra Banks is attending Harvard Business School and 2) she's actually living in the dorms. Yes, the Top Model mogul and Queen of Smize is roughing it in a dormitory with the hoi polloi (although she's not actually sharing a bedroom, of course). She told Jimmy Fallon all about how she's going back to school to grow her business, despite being a multi-millionaire already: "People like Sir Richard Branson and Walt Disney, these people have created these brands and businesses from scratch. So I look to them as role models. I want to grow my company." It's really the hot new thing for celebrities to get unnecessary education these days.

● Extra sensitivity is needed as the situation in Japan escalates to terrifying new heights. Gilbert Goddfried, the voice of the Aflac/Afquack duck, was fired after making tasteless jokes on his twitter. Meanwhile, Clint Eastwood and Matt Damon's Hereafter has been pulled from Japanese theaters because of tsunami scenes. [Perez] ● It can't be easy finding time to hit the books while managing a media empire, but Tyra Banks is making it happen -- at Harvard! She insists that Business School is something she's doing for her female fans. "In order for my company to grow and be the best, and to reach these women, and to serve them, I needed the best," she said, "So I went to the best." [NYDN] ● The soon-to-be-wed royal couple have enlisted one of Britain's most maudlin performers to play at their wedding, James Blunt. Thankfully, he's going to be tethered to the organ, not singing. [Yahoo/AP]

Adults get off on inventing cultural "epidemics" that are threatening our purest youths, impregnating their brains with all sorts of naughtiness. The latest such epidemic is, of course, sexting. Despite having been previously exorcised by the Victoria's Secret angel Tyra Banks, it's still on the tip of every anxious parent's tongue. To cope with this scourge, some level headed folks will always insist it's no big deal, nothing new to see here: "Children played doctor long before grade school students were armed with cell phones capable of snapping photos," one such column begins. Others will try and press criminal charges on a 12 year old. That's right, a felony charge of distribution of child pornography has been leveled against a 12 and 13-year-old, because of this so-called "sexting." If found guilty, the kids will have to register as sex offenders. Honestly, we think all the frenzy would dissipate with a little clarity. Parents: You think sexting is like this, but really it's like this. You have nothing to fear.

It's been a while since anyone has asked 'where are they now?' about former America's Next Top Model contestants, but it's probably because it's too depressing to answer. You may see them perched on a banquette at Marquee or in the pages of New York Social Diary, but it's become evident that the only career prospering over on ANTM is Tyra Banks's. And yet, ANTM fans still have hope! Their personal messiah? Last season's Southern ginger Nicole Fox, who went blackface, won Cycle 13 and later beat the odds by landing a lucrative contract with Alexander McQueen. At least that was the proclamation heard around the internet, prompting the fashion house to get all "WTF are you smoking?!" and deny the fan-fueled rumors.

Days ago, this news broke and everyone in America suffered cardiac arrests simultaneously: Tyra Banks' beacon of broadcast journalism, The Tyra Banks Show, would be ending in 2010. Well, maybe not simultaneously. The end of this era has meant a whole new tide of tips pouring in from disgruntled workers effed over by Banks over the years. You think just because Banks is a mogulista that she any sense of how to treat the millions of underlings responsible for her success? Of course not!

Gosselins and Kardashians and Speidi, oh my!

Somewhere, Tyra Banks is barking to Oprah, "Anything you can do, I can do better!" in between glasses of Stoli Blueberry and Oprah rolling her eyes. Oprah recently announced her landmark talk show would be ending in 2011, and Banks has now come on the record saying that her talk show will be ending too. But in 2010. Because, you see, Tyra's risky and fierce and has places to be.

Yesterday, Tyra Banks, a noted denizen of Fierceland via her Twitter, pacted with Perez Hilton on her show yesterday, promising him a fame and fortune by way of a America's Next Top Model guest judge turn. He consented. Then, minutes later, he (or his sister Barbara) scribbled this bit of uninspired nastiness about Rumer Willis. And today, we await the lowering of a gavel. Remember, Banks is a resident of Fierceland, where even the wolves have lipstick on their teeth and Vaseline rains from the heavens.

Generally, the nuggets of wisdom gleaned from Tyra Banks’ twitter feed are better suited as punch lines on The Soup, but I have to give Tyra a little credit for this one:

Unless you're John McCain and you've resigned from the presidential race after realizing you shot yourself in the foot with a loose-cannon "rogue" of a VP pick, you're probably trying to rack up some of those crucial 11th-hour celebrity endorsements. Fortunately for America's future, Oprah's already in the tank for Barack Obama. But another deified TV magnate, Tyra Banks, has also announced her support for the Democratic candidate. Always the political pundit, Banks says, "Throughout this historic presidential campaign, I have been inspired by Senator Barack Obama and his message of change -- I believe he will uplift all Americans during these critical times. I will be voting for Obama because I feel America is not only ready for this change, we are in need of it." And here I was thinking she'd be casting a ballot just so she can claim that free scoop at Ben and Jerry's.