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Hartsfield is founder of the Amalgamated Order of Real Bearded Santas, a national group based in Riverside, Calif. The group got its start in 1994 after a bunch of Kris Kringle look-alikes met while filming a commercial and then decided to keep on meeting. Today more than 1,000 men--most of them big, bewhiskered and jolly--are in the order's database...
...Stanton Glantz, a professor at the University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine and founder of the Smoke-free Movies Action Network (smokefreemovies.ucsf.edu) calls the ads, which appeared in Daily Variety and The Hollywood Reporter, "preposterous." No tobacco company, he notes, has asked for a ban in movies rated PG or PG-13 movies, which teenagers favor. Meanwhile, a mandatory R rating for movies that feature smoking has been endorsed by the World Health Organization and the American Medical Association among other groups. And earlier this year, 41 state attorneys general again wrote motion picture studios renewing their call...
...hours of nonstop comedy, the lineup of the show included performers from both Harvard and Tufts, and—despite being held the night before the LSATs—it managed to draw close to 150 people to the Science Center, according to the society’s co-founder David W. Ingber...
Still, a lot has changed since the first clubs opened their doors in 1998 promising virtually unlimited access to multimillion-dollar homes from Telluride to Tokyo. The "anywhere, anytime" promise has morphed into "most places most of the time," says Ben Addoms, a founder of Quintess, Catch the Dream, which has 38 properties in 24 locations...
Outspoken and influential, New York Congressman Charles Rangel is set to become chairman of the powerful Ways and Means Committee when Democrats take control of the House in January. A co-founder of the Congressional Black Caucus, Rangel, 76, spoke to TIME's Perry Bacon Jr. about his ongoing push for a military draft, whether he would back Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama for President and the controversy over the N word...