A lot of people make a lot of blanket generalities. When the market sells off big-time, they say it’s crashing. When scores of companies layoff thousands of workers, they say millions are losing jobs. And when they take a look at an economy bearing the brunt of all this, they …
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WASHINGTON – Aterrorist (search)by any other name is still a terrorist, even when politically correct media outlets refuse to call them such under claims of maintaining the standards of objectivity. “One man’s terrorist is another’sfreedom fighter (search)” is a cop out for those who are unwilling to recognize that just …
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8/30/01: Mariah’s Glitter Song a Plea for Help? 8/15/01: August Dog Days Are Saved by Woody 8/14/01: Kennedy-Bessette Wedding 5 Years Later: A Guest’s Recollections 8/13/01: Kidman — With Eyes Wide Open — Is a Hit 8/10/01: Is Puffy’s Bad Boy Label Doomed? 8/9/01: Sandra Bullock: Nearly $2 Mil for …
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Kennedy-Bessette Wedding, 5 Years Later | Squeeze/Crowded House Merger | J-Lo, Rob Lowe and Jacko Kennedy-Bessette Wedding, 5 Years Later: A Guest’s Recollections A little less than two months from now — Oct. 7, to be exact — will be John F. Kennedy Jr.and Carolyn Bessette Kennedy‘s 5th wedding anniversary. …
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Dame Judi Dench | Sean Penn Dame Judi Headed for Oscar Gold I had the rare opportunity last night of seeing back-to-back films that are up for Oscar contention. One of them succeeds brilliantly. The other is more problematic. First the good news. Dame Judi Denchis absolutely remarkable as the …
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Next stop in the war on terror: Somalia? U.S. officials are said to be expanding their campaign against Usama Bin Laden’s Al Qaeda terror network beyond the mountains of Afghanistan, and a German official in Brussels said Wednesday that the country on Africa’s horn is the next likely stop. The …
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Kate Hudson | Aerosmith | The Importance of Being Earnest | The Shipping News Almost Ready for Oscar: Kate Hudson So who did Kate Hudson, Oscar nominee and famous daughter, vote for in this year’s Academy Awards? “No one,” she told me last night at the premiere of her new …
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SACRAMENTO – Pulitzer-prize winning nature poet Gary Snyder’s reading seemed like an unlikely source of controversy. In 10,000 yearsthe Sierra will be dry and deadhome of the scorpion But it’s not the verse that had critics crying out in indignation. The reading series is being funded by tax dollars.With California …
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WASHINGTON – President Bush on Wednesday will unveil his first 11 nominees to the Federal bench by introducing them in an extraordinary ceremony at the White House, which officials say is the first event of its kind. Three of the president’s choices are women, three are minorities and two are …
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Tom Cruise: Golden Globes; ‘Sicko’ Premiere; Farewell, Claudia Cohen Tom Cruise: Golden Globes for Life Tom Cruise may have reached control freak nirvana this week. He’s also set for Golden Globe nominations for whatever he does in the future. The reason? Dan Snyder, owner of the Washington Redskins, has bought …
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