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...worst days?and there have been plenty of late?Winehouse looks a safe bet for an early grave. After a 2007 full of well-chronicled erratic behavior ranging from mumbled concert performances to a drug arrest in Norway, her in-laws pleaded for a public boycott of her music so that she and her equally troubled husband, Blake Fielder-Civil?currently in jail for attempting to bribe a bartender he allegedly assaulted to drop the charges?might be deprived of the income they spend getting wasted. One day in December, Winehouse wobbled out of her London home...
...Aside from employing thousands of Geordies, the Northern Rock Foundation, which receives 5% of the bank's annual profits, has handed out $350 million over the last decade to more than 1,500 good causes across the northeast. From its $2 million endowment of the gleaming Sage Gateshead concert hall, to the $300,000 it funneled into help for local prostitutes, "almost anything that happens in sport, in the arts, the community, charities," says James Ramsbotham, chief executive of the North East Chamber of Commerce, "they are at the heart...
Babies do this much the way adults do: by flirting. Within a couple of months, infants may move and coo, bob and blink in concert with anyone who's paying attention to them. Smiling is a critical and cleverly timed part of this phase. Babies usually manage a first smile by the time they're 6 weeks old, which, coincidentally or not, is about the time the novelty of a newborn has worn off and sleep-deprived parents are craving some peace. A smile can be a powerful way to win them back...
Last July, on the eve of the release of the seventh and final book, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," dozens of restaurants and stores in Harvard Square stayed open late and posted Harry Potter-themed specials, Tercentenary Theater hosted a three-hour concert that featured the musical stylings of Harry and the Potters, and hundreds of Harry Potter fans, many in wizard costumes, lined up outside the Coop to purchase a copy at the stroke of midnight...
...month’s disputed election, Kenyan students and faculty are putting aside their own views on the political situation there in an effort to provide humanitarian support. About 15 students, faculty, and community members met yesterday to discuss plans for immediate emergency relief and outreach efforts, including a concert in Boston. Since December’s presidential election, more than 700 people have been killed, and thousands more have been displaced. John M. Mugane, a professor of African languages who chaired the meeting, said that the plight of refugees affected by the violence should be the students?...