Just for fun, here's a list of 10 things that Secretary Clinton and Lady Gaga have in common, according to a lighthearted piece from the Collegian, the University of Tulsa's independent student newspaper. Elaborations of everything on this list are in the original article.

1. 1. "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"
   2. Personal fashions
2. 3. Dyed blonde hair
3. 4. Descendants of European immigrants
4. 5. Remember the ladies -- Both Gaga and HRC have turned the traditional title of "Lady" on its head.
5. 6. Featured on Time 100
6. 7. A New York chapter
7. 8. Non-adherence to gender roles
8. 9. Grammys
9. 10. Divisive American icons

Secretary Clinton visited the Expo 2010 world's fair in Shanghai this Saturday, where you could hear "scattered calls" of "We love you, Hillary!" according to the Washington Post. Above, she greets Haibao, the Expo's mascot. Below, she checks out the logo-festooned USA Pavilion.

U.S. law makes government funding of an American pavilion difficult, so Clinton used her fundraising skills to bring in private money for the USA Pavilion. (See the March FP article, "A Sorry Spectacle." For fairness, check out the rebuttal piece "Defending the USA Pavilion.")

The result: an ugly USA Pavilion.

After mentioning that "corporate America" ponied up $60 million, the Washington Post describes the USA Pavilion this way:

[The USA Pavilion] resembles more a convention center in a medium-size American city than a national showcase -- a warren of dark rooms with movie screens that pales in comparison to the ambitious pavilions of, among others, Saudi Arabia, which features the world's biggest Imax screen, and Germany, festooned with hundreds of giant red balls.… 

In addition, the message Clinton experienced at the American pavilion was so larded with corporate advertising that even some of the visiting U.S. officials appeared to have been taken aback.

One film on the creative power of children featured interviews with representatives from corporate powerhouses Chevron, General Electric, Pepsico and Johnson & Johnson, with Habitat for Humanity and the University of Washington thrown in for good measure. That film was aired in the Citicorp room.

A film featuring a girl making her dreams come true and song lyrics that went, "You've got a dream, so plant it in your heart.… You can make it bloom so all the world will see," flashed this message in Chinese on the screen as it was ending, "This film was made by Pepsi."

Still, the USA Pavilion has proved popular among the Chinese. (The pavilion doesn't mention anything about democracy and freedom of expression, with the head of the pavilion's steering committee telling the Post that a main goal was not to be "insulting" to the Chinese.)

When asked her opinion of the Expo in its entirety, Clinton appeared moved and said,"It's so much of a tradition of these expos, all the way back to St. Louis or New York.… It's like a coming-out party for countries and cities. There's a real historical significance."

Asked about the USA Pavilion in particular, she said less enthusiastically, "It's fine."

Well, if corporate America paid for it, then it only makes sense that it should be a "corporate America" pavilion.

Secretary Clinton unveiled a statue of 19th-century American poet Walt Whitman at Moscow State University today. The statue -- from the D.C. mayor -- reciprocated a statue of Russian poet Alexander Pushkin that was presented to the U.S. capital from the Moscow mayor in 2000. The Pushkin statue stands on the campus of George Washington University, at 22nd and H streets NW.

Many people think Whitman was gay, and Russian gay-rights activists had called on Clinton to denounce anti-gay attitudes. Clinton did not mention gay rights in her brief remarks at the unveiling, but she has definitely done much to promote human rights and openness during her visit to Russia.

Photo: Valeriy Yevseyev, U.S. State Department

Actress Hope Davis, who'll be playing Hillary Clinton in the forthcoming film The Special Relationship, has a makeup team that is doing a surprisingly good job at making her look like the former first lady (the movie takes place from the mid-1990s to 2000). Davis told the New York Times that she uses wigs, false teeth, and pantsuits made "exactly to spec" to transform herself into a Clinton look-alike.

The hard part, though, is Clinton's accent. Davis told the Times, "Her accent has changed a bit over the years. In 1992, when she became first lady, she had quite a bit of Arkansas still in her speech from her 13 years there. That’s really gone now. So her accent has kind of shifted over time but she’s lived in very different places. So that became tricky."

Check out the thumbnail image above from the Times. She really does look like Clinton!

Photo: Thumbnail from New York Times, Steve Forrest for The New York Times

Iranians flocked to the polls today to elect one of four men as their next president. Top advisors to one of the candidates, Mehdi Karroubi, a moderate, recently suggested that if he wins (which he likely won't), he should appoint a female foreign minister. Why? So she would be able to shake hands with Secretary Clinton, something that would be taboo for a man to do.

[Mehdi Karroubi] recently debated with his team the number of cabinet posts women should fill. Mr Karroubi's top advisers lobbied for the Foreign Ministry, speculating that when relations with the US normalise, the new foreign minister could shake hands with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Not all Muslims, though, think it's improper for people of the opposite sex to shake hands. Below, Secretary Clinton shakes hands with Indonesian Foreign Minister Hassan Wirajuda, a Muslim, on Feb. 18.

Photo: ADEK BERRY/AFP/Getty Images

When Bill Clinton first became president, it was not an unusual occurrence for Hillary Clinton to be seen in a skirt. But around the time she started running for Senate, she became the First Lady of the Pantsuit -- and, like my former colleagues at Glamour magazine, I'm all for it in theory. Skirt suits are pretty cold in Washington (let alone New York) winters, stockings are hideous in the swampy summers and, goodness knows, I've heard enough anonymous Internet commenters talk about "cankles" to last me a lifetime (as if any of those people have seen their own ankles in years). So, I can only imagine how Hillary feels. For my part, I'm pretty sure her ankles are just fine.

Plus, as anyone in D.C. knows, this is a drab suit kind of town, so Hillary's  penchant for the jewel toned-pantsuits (which replaced her earlier black-only uniform) is actually a step away from (and often above) the average. But, as someone with a similar body type as Hillary Clinton, I'd like to encourage her to discover something that many Washington women -- including her immediate predecessor, Condoleezza Rice -- have discovered: the skirt suit/knee-high boot combination.

Let it be said, however, that I'm not suggesting that Hillary put on a pair of Rice- or Palin-esque stiletto boots. Given her normal shoes (yes, I'm obsessed with her shoes, too), she has obviously chosen to stick with flats or kitten heels for her own reasons -- which could include the health of her joints and back, as my own mother reminds me when I wear heels. But, all need not be lost in the knee-high boots department this winter.

Plenty of knee-high boots come in flats or short heels and serve the same function as the high-heeled boot: to allow a woman to wear a skirt suit and still have covered legs in freezing temperatues (as Clinton's soon-to-be boss's inauguration is likely to be). Women of all ages, all over Washington are probably wearing such boots with their suits as I type this, and Hillary Clinton could certainly (and attractively) join their ranks. She might not set all the male hearts aquiver in Eastern Europe doing it, but I, for one, would applaud her.

Plus, then my mom would probably stop kvetching at me for wearing them.

Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images and Paul J. Richards/AFP/Getty Images

It's not the $8 million Hillary got to write Living History, but Laura Bush reportedly just landed a $1.6 million deal to write her memoirs. For that sum, don't expect a lot of dishing about George's years off the wagon.