Tag: humor writer
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November 20, 2009 08:45 AM EST --
The holidays are a stressful time of the year, straining both long-term relationships and brief flings that begin as drunken come-ons at office parties. How does one cope with competing and often . . .
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November 19, 2009 07:51 AM EST --
Rocco Landesman, new chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, says he will open up funding to rap artists. The Wall Street Journal
I was sitting at my desk, tapping out rejection letters . . .
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October 19, 2006 10:34 AM EDT --
NEW YORK. The heads of the world's principal religions have agreed to establish an international pecking order by a sudden-death game of "One Potato, Two Potato" to be held at United Nations . . .
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November 20, 2009 11:11 AM EST --
As a condition to an appearance at a London shopping mall, Mariah Carey's list of required items included 20 white kittens, 100 white doves, pink butterfly confetti and a wand to wave. Wonderwall, . . .
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November 19, 2009 03:03 PM EST --
FOXBORO, Mass. It was, long-time NFL observers said, one of the most painful and excruciating injuries ever witnessed in a professional football game. "That brain cramp there, that was as . . .
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November 18, 2009 08:44 PM EST --
WASHINGTON, D.C. The Transportation Security Agency, the arm of the federal government that protects the nation's transportation systems, today issued its pre-Thanksgiving survey of articles . . .
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July 19, 2006 05:09 PM EDT --
EAST BRIDGEWATER, Mass. Amy LeBlanc couldn't wait for her eighteenth birthday, but it wasn't presents she was looking forward to.
"I wanted to go out and get a tattoo that would really . . .
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October 21, 2007 01:52 PM EDT --
WELLESLEY FALLS, Mass. In this affluent suburb of Boston, churchgoers at the Wellesley Falls Presbyterian Church tend to look like they stepped out of the pages of a Brooks Brothers catalog, . . .
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March 10, 2008 06:07 AM EDT --
Girl Scouts in Akron, Ohio are taking vigorous steps to collect debts owed by adults who fail to pay for cookies. Associated Press
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March 10, 2008 03:16 PM EDT --
ALBANY, New York. Crusading New York Governor Eliot Spitzer today demanded a complete investigation into his involvement in a prostitution ring, saying he would not rest until he had determined . . .
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April 23, 2008 08:11 AM EDT --
WILTON, Connecticut. In this leafy suburb of New York, it is possible to go for months without seeing one's next-door neighbors, says A.J. "Tony" Ward, a long-time resident. . . .
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May 09, 2008 09:22 AM EDT --
DAYTONA BEACH. This city on Florida's west coast has been the headquarters for NASCAR since the stock car racing giant was first formed in 1948. "Some cities looked at us when we . . .
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August 17, 2008 08:21 PM EDT --
BEIJING. Confronted with a certified copy of her birth certificate by Chinese officials, Olympic silver medalist Dana Torres today admitted that she is not 41 years and that she added . . .
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September 07, 2008 09:42 PM EDT --
NEWTON UPPER HILLS, Mass. This suburb to the west of Boston boasts a highly-educated population with a love of reading, as well as a large population of dogs. "We're not called the . . .
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October 01, 2008 04:49 AM EDT --
It is time once again to dig into Mr. Sports Talk Guy's mailbag and answer your questions on jargon from the four major sports groups.
"Stop yelling at me!"
Dear Mr. . . .
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October 03, 2008 08:45 AM EDT --
I had a birthday last weekend. I'm not going to tell you how old I am, but to keep things in perspective, I like to remind myself that when William Shakespeare was my age, he'd already . . .
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October 20, 2008 02:45 PM EDT --
The news this morning was grim. Another Sunday, another no-holds-barred fight at a baby shower turned deadly. Four people taken to hospital emergency rooms at 11:30 p.m. When will . . .
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January 21, 2009 10:05 AM EST --
Pets are both our friends and members of our families, so when something is wrong in the doghouse or litterbox, we want to make it right. Here are some of the more interesting problems that . . .
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November 17, 2009 08:05 AM EST --
In the case of Bilski and Warsaw v. Kappos, Justice Stephen Breyer asked counsel whether he could patent a method of teaching that would keep 80% of students awake; Justice Antonin Scalia asked if horse . . .
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September 05, 2006 09:24 PM EDT --
WASHINGTON, D.C. The Department of Homeland Security has taken the first official steps to place the Shriners, a fraternal organization that uses Arabian motifs in its costumes and rituals, on its "Specially . . .
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