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DIED. RUTH WARRICK, 88, who made her film-acting debut in Citizen Kane but went on to greater fame with a 35-year run in ABC's soap All My Children; in New York City. After playing Orson Welles' icy first wife in Kane, she had a middling film career before finding her m??tier as All My Children's overbearing socialite Phoebe Tyler Wallingford, who once barred a chauffeur from her library because he was wearing jeans. "You say Phoebe," Warrick said, "and 50 million people know what you mean...
...complained, "It bothers me that almost every U.S. President is named at least once as the Person of the Year. HOW ABOUT BEING MORE CREATIVE IN YOUR SELECTION?" And a Pennsylvanian asked, "How could you miss the obvious? The choice should have been a U.S. soldier and an Iraqi citizen." The person who garnered the largest number of nominations, however, was not an American or a member of the armed forces but Ukraine's President-elect, Viktor Yushchenko. As one letter writer put it, "Yushchenko is a prime example of someone who is truly fighting for democracy...
...great mysteries of nutrition: how the French manage to consume liters of fine wine and beaucoup de bonbons and still stay slim. Author Guiliano, now a dual citizen, claims to have decoded the secret in her surprise best seller, French Women Don't Get Fat(Knopf). Even the current U.S. antagonism toward all things Gallic has not dampened the book's reception. It has gone through six printings and shot to No. 2 on Amazon.com...
Three weeks after 9/11 and two days before the U.S. invaded Afghanistan, Mamdouh Habib was on a bus headed out of the Pakistani town of Quetta when police swooped and arrested him. What, they wanted to know, was an Australian citizen doing in this restricted border zone - a Taliban stronghold - without a permit? "Wrong place, wrong time," says Habib's lawyer Stephen Hopper: the Egyptian-born father of four, who planned to move his family to Pakistan, had simply been looking for business opportunities and a good Islamic school for his sons. But U.S. security agents, who soon took custody...
...country was out of work, and no one was poorer than the elderly. "We can never insure 100% of the population against 100% of the hazards and vicissitudes of life, but we have tried to frame a law which will give some measure of protection to the average citizen and to his family against the loss of a job and against poverty-ridden old age," F.D.R. said. At the end of 2004, about 48 million Americans--not just retired workers but also the disabled and the spouses and children of deceased workers--drew $41.5 billion a month in benefits. Even...