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...memorial service was not his daughter Paris' tremulous and wrenching goodbye. It was not Berry Gordy's declaring Jackson "the greatest entertainer that ever lived," nor was it the Rev. Al Sharpton's assertion that Jackson's fame made a generation of white kids comfortable with electing a black President. It came before the encomiums and music began, after Motown singer Smokey Robinson took the stage, read testimonials from Diana Ross and Nelson Mandela, walked...
...baby happy," she recalls. But Philo says she started having suicidal and homicidal thoughts, which got stronger when another doctor raised her dosage. Eventually, Philo says, she weaned herself off the drug, and her violent feelings disappeared. (Zoloft, like other antidepressant drugs in its class, carries a black-box warning that it can increase suicidal ideation in patients ages 24 and under but not in adults of Philo...
...called "the blob." It was a dark, floating mass stretching for miles through the Chukchi Sea, a frigid and relatively shallow expanse of Arctic Ocean water between Alaska's northwest coast and the Russian Far East. The goo was fibrous, hairy. When it touched floating ice, it looked almost black...
...Saturday, the outdoor sign for the Ritz-Carlton was sheathed with a black cloth. Bypassers piled flowers near a police cordon. Condemnation of the attacks came from across the globe. U.S. President Barack Obama, who lived in Jakarta as a child, labeled the bombings "outrageous attacks," while Kevin Rudd, the Prime Minister of Australia, from where three of the dead victims hailed, said the violence made him "sick to the stomach." But the strongest sentiments may have come from a man who isn't usually known for his displays of emotion. On Saturday, SBY made a brief tour...
...relatively strong period for the NYPD. Crime remains fairly low, and we haven't seen some of the tensions between the department and the public that we saw in the 1990s. This is more style than it is substance. There have been four killings of unarmed black men by police since Kelly has been commissioner, and there's been no reform of police procedure that I'm aware of. We had the case of a black teenage boy shot to death on the roof of his apartment - the officer was patrolling with his gun drawn and accidentally shot...