On Wednesday, May 16, over a thousand people, many of them scantily clad women, braved pouring rain to attend Maxim magazineâs eighth annual âHot 100â...
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Hamburg (dpa) - If your relationship survives the month of January
you'll probably stay together with your spouse all year, according to
a survey of European couples.
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The American artist Joseph Cornell (1903-1972) created one of the 20th century’s strangest and most quixotic bodies of work. Through the tender arrangement of dolls, balls and assorted Victor...
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Literary Destinations by Mary Dixon Lebeau As the poet Emily Dickinson once wrote, “There is no frigate like a book to take us lands away.” While beloved authors act as tour guide...
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SWIMMING IN A SEA OF DEATH By David Rieff Simon & Schuster, 179 pages, $21
Thereâs something obscene about sitting at a desk, in a chair that corrects the posture, sipping warm...
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If they watched the overnight vigil in Saint Peter's Square as the Pope lay dying, the good doctors of the Netherlands must have shaken their heads in bewilderment. "Watson, the needle," Sherlock H...
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Let us quote from sacred text: the 2005 Emmy Award acceptance speech by "Daily Show" host Jon Stewart.Spaketh Stewart:"When I first said that I wanted us to put together a late-night comedy writing...
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