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DIED. SHIRLEY POVICH, 92, irrepressible Washington Post sports columnist whose career stats--more than 15,000 articles in seven decades--made him the Cal Ripken of the beat; in Washington. Povich scored his first byline in 1924 and was soon a breakfast staple for Washington's sports addicts: President Nixon called his column "the only reason" to read the Post. But Povich's prose transcended the play-by-play; he championed such causes as integration, writing in 1946: "Four hundred and fifty-five years after Columbus eagerly discovered America, major league baseball reluctantly discovered the American Negro...
...Disney's romantic comedy Six Days, Seven Nights--she met and fell in love with Ellen DeGeneres, TV's first openly gay leading actress. Overnight, the couple, showing up at premieres arm in arm, snuggling in front of the President at the White House correspondents' dinner, became a gossip columnist's dream and a public relations nightmare. And just as suddenly, Disney's frothy little summer vehicle for Ford became the bearer of a heavy burden: Would moviegoers accept Hollywood's first avowedly lesbian leading lady...
Check time.com to read more on the great milk debate. Our regular health columnist, Christine Gorman, is on vacation
...first time around, Mitchard was a virtual unknown: a Madison, Wis., newspaper columnist and a widowed mother of five. Then she got what has come to be known, for a select group including Toni Morrison, Alice Hoffman and, most recently, Edwidge Danticat, as "the call." Says Mitchard, laughing: "It fell under the category of 'Who knew?' I was dumbfounded, honest to gosh." On her follow-up book, the hard part was to exorcise all notions of trying to duplicate the previous success. "The temptation is to just write something like, 'He had a hairy chest, she had big breasts...
...quarters of negative growth, announced Friday, have tipped Japan into its first financial year of recession since the oil crisis of 1974. But this time the statistics are a little late with the story: "Japan has effectively been in a depression for four to five years," says TIME business columnist Daniel Kadlec. "They've been in a psychological recession since the stock market peaked in 1989. People who put all their money in equities then will never recover...