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...Both her personal and professional lives underwent significant changes in 1967 upon her divorce from her husband...
...According to Coles, it was Williams' strong letter of recommendation that got him into Columbia Medical School upon his graduation from Harvard--certainly not his grades in science courses or the community service that occupied much of his time at Harvard. Even in medical school, Coles had trouble with the work...
...cartoon, titled "Betty in a Wet Fret," was posted on the Web last week. It features the Betty character commenting to Veronica upon seeing a shirtless Archie, and then making a sexually explicit comment...
...would give me pleasure, I'm afraid, to inflict all of these punishments, one by one and slowly, upon the two men who - as you may have heard - engaged in cold-blooded massacre in a Wendy's fast food restaurant in the New York City borough of Queens last week. They herded seven employees together, silenced them with duct tape, and methodically shot each one in the head, killing five, before they robbed the till and fled. They were later arrested. There is not the slightest doubt that the police have the right...
Hard as it may be to believe in this era of information overload, once upon a time we actually worried that we weren't getting enough information. Fears of media monopoly were once rampant - what if the television station and the newspaper in a city were owned by the same family? And what if that family hated, say, corn on the cob? Everyone in that town would be denied important news concerning that noble vegetable. Recognizing the danger inherent in such a scenario, in 1975 the regulators at the Federal Communications Commission stepped in and made a decree...