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November 22, 2009 03:48 PM EST --
News item: A Boston-area radio station began playing Christmas music on Veteran's Day this year, the earliest date ever.
Holiday people, being too cheerful. I'd like to give one or two a good . . .
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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 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 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 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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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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November 17, 2009 06:12 PM EST --
PARIS. Jubilant fans poured into the streets here last night overturning Renaults and hitting riot policemen with baguettes after France reclaimed the World Baking Championship following . . .
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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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November 13, 2009 08:21 AM EST --
In a departure from its traditional position that the earth is the only inhabited planet, the Vatican has consulted experts on the possibility of extraterrestrial life. The Boston Herald . . .
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November 11, 2009 02:28 PM EST --
Worcester, Massachusetts is not even a byway, much less a highway, of the blues. Mississippi's Highway 61, Memphis's Beale Street, Chicago's Stony Island Avenue, home of the Burning Spear--those public . . .
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November 11, 2009 09:55 AM EST --
EAU CLAIRE, Michigan. In this homogenous town in southwest Michigan, where 91% of the residents are white, middle-school children lead a sheltered life as they are chauffered from home to school and soccer . . .
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November 11, 2009 07:59 AM EST --
There is nothing more important to a human being than his or her love life. Without love, there would be little or no sexual reproduction and whole species--or even families--could become extinct! . . .
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November 10, 2009 09:13 AM EST --
COLUMBUS, Ohio. Angry crowds of teenage boys descended on Victoria's Secret headquarters here today in an effort to persuade the lingerie company to retain its current "too sexy" image, which the . . .
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November 08, 2009 10:53 AM EST --
WORCESTER, Mass. Karen Spilika has dreamed of being a beauty queen since she was a little girl, dressing up in swimsuits and high heels and parading before her bedroom mirror singing "There . . .
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November 07, 2009 09:22 AM EST --
Aspiring models are participating in boot camps in the hope of winning Victoria's Secret's nationwide runway model search. The Boston Herald
As I unpacked my duffle bag in the . . .
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November 06, 2009 02:12 PM EST --
In some respects, the world of jazz resembles the Elizabethan stage. There are the bare, unadorned sets on which the two art forms are displayed; there is the fact that in both cases, little . . .
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November 05, 2009 11:11 AM EST --
I was passing by the Irish Famine Memorial at the corner of School and Washington Streets in Boston yesterday, a spot favored by what are no longer called "bums", perhaps because, by comparison . . .
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November 05, 2009 10:50 AM EST --
Back in my bachelor days, whenever I'd hit a . . . uh . . . dry patch, I'd consult with my friend Gino.
Maybe "friend" is too strong a word. It's hard to get close to a self-described . . .
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November 04, 2009 08:19 PM EST --
NEW YORK. The three major television networks issued hurried retractions tonight after their evening news anchors confused French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss, who died Saturday, with the . . .
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November 04, 2009 10:25 AM EST --
MIAMI. His Dolphin teammates laughed and said it was only a matter of time. "You guys want a story?" center Jake Grove said to writers who had gathered around his locker. . . .
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