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...coffeehouse's décor has received few updates since the day it opened 50 years ago - Dec. 16, 1959 - in a former Chinese laundry on North Wells Street in Chicago's Old Town neighborhood. The club, and the troupe that shares its name, was opened by three theater veterans and University of Chicago grads, Bernard Sahlins, Paul Sills and Howard Alk. They took the name from the condescending title of a New Yorker article about Chicago by A.J. Liebling, and the idea - an improvisational comedy show - from theater games developed by Sills' mother, actress and theater teacher Viola Spolin...
...holiday gift-givers, the clock is ticking. Dec. 16 is the last day packages can be sent via the U.S. Postal Service's no-frills parcel-post shipping in order to make it in time for Christmas, and the first in a series of deadlines for last-minute shoppers...
...Houston, it is now harder for a lawyer to be elected mayor than a lesbian." - Rick Casey, political columnist (Houston Chronicle, Dec...
...responsible for overseeing the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and security efforts throughout the region. "There were certain countries which used to hold us at arm's length that have over the last year embraced Central Command in certain cooperative endeavors," Petraeus told TIME in an interview on Dec. 13, citing ballistic-missile defense agreements and shared early-warning systems. "Ahmadinejad's rhetoric is very alarming among countries in this region." (See five flawed assumptions of President Obama's Afghanistan surge...
...Dec. 9, the aid group Secours Catholique won permission to begin setting up a center to care for the most vulnerable aliens who stayed in Calais after the Sept. 22 operation. The approval didn't come easy. With more than half of the nearly 1,000 refugees who occupied the camp relocated elsewhere, Calais city officials fought efforts by Secours Catholique and other aid groups to set up any services for the remainder for fear that even minimal aid could swell illegals' numbers again. Secours Catholique not only had to win a November court case to overcome the refusal...