Michael Douglas Wanted to Impregnate Catherine Zeta-Jones on First Meeting | Behind Closed Doors: What Skills Is Nikki Sixx Teaching Tattoo Lover Kat Von D? | Mia Farrow’s Brother Found Dead Under Suspicious Circumstances | Quote of the Day: ‘Twilight’ Director Likes Her Stars Getting Attacked Michael Douglas Wanted to …
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BERLIN – Berlin was buzzing Friday as festivities marking 20 years since the fall of the wall got under way. U2 had a public concert by the Brandenburg Gate on Thursday evening. The world’s media and world leaders are descending upon this once divided city. But beyond the party there …
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When people hear about an impending meteor shower, their first impression may be of a sky filled with shooting stars pouring down like rain. Such meteor storms have actually occurred with the annual Leonid meteor shower of November, such as in 1833 and 1966, when meteor rates of literally tens …
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Hangers? I mean, seriously, do we really need eco-friendly clothing hangers? “Do we ever,” says Danny Schrager, CEO of Mountain Valley Recycling in Morristown, Tenn. “Ninety percent of America’s clothes are now imported, and every garment that comes in from overseas comes in on a hanger — 30 to 40 …
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You know what’s particularly insulting to me about these auto bailout hearings? Not the demeaning spectacle of the Big Three CEOs reduced to political punching bags, but the ones punching them. Look, as any semi-regular viewer of this show knows, I’m not fan of bailouts — this one, any one. …
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WASHINGTON – Watching the network’s ratings plunge to its lowest levels ever, Public Broadcasting Service executives are privately raising concerns that their future may be in jeopardy, a situation that the government-funded television network’s critics don’t mind. Alarm bells first rang in February when PBS President Pat Mitchell told local …
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WASHINGTON – A lawsuitlaunched Tuesday against several international banks and U.S. corporations alleges that financial support of and business deals with the apartheid government in South Africa from 1960 to 1994 was “encouraging and furthering the abuses” of the racist regime. Brought by the law offices of Cohen, Milstein, Hausfeld …
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Jacko|Stevie Wonder|Virginia Madsen|New MP3 Player Jacko: California Bar Punished Two of His Lawyers Two attorneys connected to Michael Jackson have been censured by the California Bar Association in the last few years. Brian Oxman, known on television as the self-described “Jackson family lawyer,” was given a private reproval by the …
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Pitt and Jolie |’Frasier’ Finale |Vanity Fair|Showtime Brad Pitt: New Movie Out of Control? Forget about Brad Pitt as hulky, sulky Achilles in the new film “Troy.” Apparently, Pitt’s even better at playing referee. Pitt’s latest movie, “Mr. and Mrs. Smith” — about a husband and wife who think their …
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WASHINGTON – With a dubious nuclear technology program, the capture of British sailors last week and reports of meddling in fledgling Iraqi affairs,Iran (search)— a member of the now-notorious “axis of evil” — appears to be testing the waters to see how far it can push the West. Some foreign …
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