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...sophomore effort promise to be more introspective than her first in its very title: “A Little More Personal (RAW).” If this truly is Lindsay Lohan “raw,” she should have stuck to a more refined pop product. Ok, Lindsay, your family is a bit of a mess. You have a poor relationship with your father and, like most child actors, you probably grew up a little too fast. The album’s first single, “Confessions of a Broken Heart (Daughter to Father...
...absurdity, sampling Cyndi Lauper’s “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun” (the whole backing synth line, not just the vocal) for his 2004 single “Girls,” and categorically failing to imbue Lauper’s kitschy girl-pop anthem with any street cred whatsoever...
...years. Charlie goes from juvenile depressive to play director, Linus goes from psychological problem child to biblical prophet, and the whole gang learns Christmas is about decorating puny trees. If you need to keep your annoying cousins company after Christmas dinner, plop them in front of the TV, pop this into the DVD player, and break the seal on a bottle of gin. TAKE A SHOT… 1. Every time Linus does something vaguely biblical—throwing his snowball with a slingshot a la David, being offered Sally as his wife in the Christmas play, delivering the word...
...person calls 911 from a land line, the location from which they are calling and name to which the number is registered pop up on computer screen in the office. Dispatchers have access to a criminal justice database, which has a record of all the crimes committed in Cambridge, Mass., and in other states. If the callers have any infractions—from revoked driver’s licenses to warrants for their arrest—the dispatcher will know immediately and alert the police...
...this was not exactly the exciting makings of mass devotion, and for a long time, says the Rev. Joseph Lienhard, an expert in the early church at New York City's Fordham University, "Joseph was not a popular saint." That's an understatement. His name did not pop up on any Western saints lists until 1000. The Koran, which dates from the 600s, dedicates a chapter to Mary but omits Joseph. According to Sandra Miesel, a Catholic journalist with a specialty in medieval history, a list of 30,000 Florentine men of the officeholding class before 1530 contained precisely...