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...White House has insisted that Obama's address won't dip into policy and is geared primarily toward reducing the nation's troubling dropout rate. White House Deputy Policy Director Heather Higginbottom told the Associated Press that "it's really unfortunate that politics has been brought into this. It's simply a plea to students to take their learning seriously. Find out what they're good at. Set goals." The irony of the backlash, in fact, is that much of Obama's education platform, especially its emphasis on personal responsibility over entitlement, dovetails with conservative tenets...
...Errol Flynn and George Burns and his wife Gracie Allen. Humphrey Bogart and "America's Sweetheart" Mary Pickford are yards away from each other in the same walled (and locked) garden. Around the grounds are chapels - replicas of famous European churches - such as the "Wee Kirk o' the Heather" (Ronald Reagan tied the knot with Jane Wyman there in 1940). In other locations there are replicas of Michelangelo's David and La Pieta. A massive stained-glass version of one of Jackson's favorite works of Renaissance art, Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper, is the artistic highlight...
...Heather • Mary Kay LeTourneau impression is performed...
...Chandler Murray's mailbox, not counting bills and solicitations, receives only a handful of seasonal letters from a few old friends. "People just don't write letters anymore," says his daughter Heather Bellanca. And by people, she means anyone more than 20 years younger than Murray, who lives by himself in Middlebury, Vt. So in an effort to keep him connected, Bellanca, who lives a couple of hours away in Salem, N.Y., this spring started spending $9.95 a month for a service that sends him letters every week - letters family and friends e-mail to a company that prints...
...catastrophe with a comedic elegance, but he's hamstrung by another reductive script from hot writers Jon Lucas and Scott Moore (Four Christmases, Ghosts of Girlfriends Past). Virtually every joke either is visible long before it arrives or extends way past its expiration date. Even the welcome presence of Heather Graham and a deeply weird cameo by Mike Tyson can't save a bromance so primitive it's practically Bro-Magnon...