Stephen King (born 1947) is a prolific and immensely popular author of horror fiction. In his works, King blends elements of the traditional gothic tale with those of the modern psychological thriller...
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Stephen King was born September 21, 1947 in Portland, Maine, the second son of Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King. Two years later, his father, a merchant seaman, went to the grocery store for a pa...
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Stephen King has written twenty-six novels (including five under the pen name Richard Bachman), five collections of short fiction, one book of criticism, six screenplays, and other short works. Accord...
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Stephen King's Desperation poses a major question to society. Bringing to mind the conflicts of good vs. evil, King shows us that it isn't the size of the dog that matters, but rather the fight of ...
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Manila (dpa) - Helen Pacheco was drenched in sweat as she stood
nervously on the sidewalk close to where a bus full of pre-school
kids were being held hostage by two men to ...
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Post-punk stars Blondie are lending their songs to a West End musical based on the Madonna movie "Desperately Seeking Susan," its producers announced Tuesday.The show, adapted from the 1985 film th...
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"Desperate Housewives" star Teri Hatcher is being told to pucker up and pay $2.4 million to a skin care products company that says she promoted the wrong lip gloss.Filed in Los Angeles Superior Cou...
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It has finally come to this: labels are simply giving their music away.A new Web site named SpiralFrog.com allows visitors _ with label approval _ to download music free of charge. It launched Mond...
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Thousands of Haitians sought shelter in schoolhouses Saturday as the death toll from Tropical Storm Noel rose to 143 across the Caribbean.Heavy rains continued to pound Haiti, leaving U.N. and Hait...
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Jacob Manczyk was properly suited up in khakis and button-down shirt at a recent Jewish singles night. He is a currency trader, and he lives on the Upper West Side. He claimed, quite credibly, that...
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The government sent the army Saturday to stop looting fueled by rising desperation in earthquake-shattered Peru, where tens of thousands were without fresh water and shivering families huddled in m...
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In his immensely popular book, "The Purpose Driven Life", one of the major points that Pastor Rick Warren tries to make is that people must change the way they think before they can change the way ...
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They travel for days though checkpoints, across dangerous roads and past Myanmar's bribe-hungry soldiers to make it to the Thai border. They're not refugees fleeing the junta — they simply wa...
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Manila (dpa) - The Philippines on Wednesday cried foul over a slur
against Filipino medical professionals in the premier episode of the
latest season of the popular US telev...
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