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A Life Well Lived

Janet Ritz | Posted 04.20.2008 | Living


Janet Ritz

An artist's work lives beyond them. I know this. I also know another side to the terrific woman who was my mother and who was such a large part of our lives.

Kim Cattrall: From Sexy To Period Parent In Kipling Flick

AP | FRAZIER MOORE | Posted 04.17.2008 | Entertainment


NEW YORK — Kim Cattrall found many reasons to seize the role of Carrie Kipling, wife of British literary superstar Rudyard Kipling, in the film ...

Zooey Deschanel Goes From Acting To Singing On New Record

New York Times | Posted 04.16.2008 | Entertainment


On screen the actress Zooey Deschanel is often cast as the quirky naïf or the ironic wit, the kind of character too flustered or too eye-rollingly im...

The Healing Powers Of Hairless Dogs

abcnews.com | Lauren Cahoon | Posted 04.15.2008 | Living


Nancy Gordon's fibromyalgia pain had haunted her for years, forcing her to quit her job and sending her into depression. She's found salvation, howeve...

Life Gets Tougher For Runaways

AP | MARTHA IRVINE | Posted 04.15.2008 | Living


CHICAGO — The young caller's voice is high-pitched and trembling. Her mother's been drinking, she says. They got into a fistfight, so the girl ...

26-Year-Old Secret Could Free Inmate

AP | SHARON COHEN | Posted 04.14.2008 | Living


CHICAGO — For nearly 26 years, the affidavit was sealed in an envelope and stored in a locked box, tucked away with the lawyer's passport and wi...

History Lessons

Janet Ritz | Posted 04.13.2008 | Politics


Janet Ritz

The Bush administration's seeming incompetence, its torture memos and its rush to war parallels the way that Caesar and his contemporaries used war to further wealth and political ambition.

What Celebrities Earned In 2007: From $5M To $260 M

Huffington Post | Posted 04.11.2008 | Entertainment


This Sunday's Parade is their annual feature on what people earn. In addition to regular jobs, they round up some celebrity pay packages for ogling. F...

Harvey Weinstein Remembers Teacher And Friend Anthony Minghella

The Times | Harvey Weinstein | Posted 04.11.2008 | Entertainment


The memories are so vivid; snatches of conversations like pieces of movies - instructive, adventurous and always humorous. "Opera? Me? Never happen,"...

The Family Meal: Why Moments Speak Louder Than Numbers

Peggy Drexler | Posted 04.11.2008 | Living


Peggy Drexler

It's amazing to me how quickly the arguments about what is - and is not - an effective family defaults to big numbers when in reality, the effectivene...

South African Circus Works To End Segregation

ODE Magazine | Fred De Vries | Posted 04.10.2008 | Living


A circus? Twelve-year-old Andiswa Nkebendu, raised by her mother in the notorious Khayelitsha township near Cape Town, South Africa, had never heard o...

How You Can Wear Oprah's Clothes

New York Times | Susan Saluny | Posted 04.10.2008 | Living


Oprah's Closet is the most intriguing corner of what is otherwise a large souvenir shop newly opened to promote Oprah-inspired accessories and housew...

"Last Lecture" Professor Passes Six Month Mark

Huffington Post | Verena von Pfetten | Posted 04.09.2008 | Living


What would you say if you knew you were going to die and had a chance to sum up everything that was most important to you? That's the hypothetical qu...

George Clooney Meets With Prime Minister Brown About Darfur

AP | DAVID STRINGER | Posted 04.09.2008 | Entertainment


LONDON — George Clooney took a break from promoting his latest film Tuesday to meet with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, as he continued pr...

Angelina Goes To Washington: Honors Mariane Pearl, Pushes Education In Iraq, Goes To A Museum

Huffington Post | Posted 04.08.2008 | Entertainment


Pregnant mother-of-four Angelina Jolie, a UN ambassador, is busy in Washington DC. Last night she honored Mariane Pearl. People reports: Angelina Joli...

Seniors Who Rock: Video

NBC News | Posted 04.08.2008 | Living


Check out this segment The Today Show did on the senior stars of a new rock documentary Young At Heart. More about Young At Heart here. More about...

Carly Smithson: From Record Deal To Waitress To "American Idol"

AP | SOLVEJ SCHOU | Posted 04.08.2008 | Entertainment


Carly Smithson may have snagged a big-time record deal as a teen, but her co-workers at an Irish pub in San Diego didn't even know the raven-haired, t...

Colin Farrell Visits Srebrenica For Role: I Felt Sick

Reuters via Yahoo | Posted 04.07.2008 | Entertainment


Irish actor Colin Farrell toured Bosnia this weekend to get a feel of how it was to be a reporter during the 1992-95 war, in preparation for a new fi...

Paralyzed Vet Turns Pain Into Protest Music

USA Today | Edna Gundersen | Posted 04.07.2008 | Entertainment


Bent on retribution, Tomas Young joined the U.S. Army two days after 9/11. When he learned he was being shipped to Iraq instead of Afghanistan, he say...

Jack McBrayer On Kenneth The Page, Alec Baldwin And Mariah

New York Times | DAVE ITZKOFF | Posted 04.06.2008 | Entertainment


WHEN Jack McBrayer began pursuing an acting career, the first quality that agents and casting directors noticed was not his quick wit, his excitable n...

Man Buys Dinner For His Mugger

Gimundo.com | Kathy Hawkins | Posted 04.06.2008 | Living


When Julio Diaz stepped off the New York City subway platform after work one night, he was simply planning to walk over to his favorite local diner fo...

Paul McCartney Remembers Linda In His Own Words

The Times | Paul McCartney | Posted 04.05.2008 | Entertainment


So much of my life with Linda, and our family, was spent just hanging out either at home or on holiday. The picture on this page is just a simple holi...

Gossip Girl Writer Redefines Beauty In The Battle Against Breast Cancer

Susan Sawyers | Posted 04.01.2008 | Living


Susan Sawyers

Devastated by the loss of her mother, who died of ovarian cancer after defeating breast cancer seven years earlier, Jessica was determined to do what she could to prevent the disease from ravaging her own life.

SoCal Thrift Store Worker Returns $30G

AP | Posted 03.10.2008 | Living


POMONA, Calif. — A thrift store worker in Southern California says she didn't think twice about returning $30,000 she found in donated clothing....


 

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