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...Broadway as an autumnal star, headlining the French comedy Forty Carats (in a role that had been played by Julie Harris and Joan Fontaine). She signed up for a couple of stints in those employment agencies for geriatric actors, The Love Boat and Murder, She Wrote. (What, no Fantasy Island ?) According to IMDb, her last role was a Lady in Hotel in the Carrie Fisher TV movie, These Old Broads, which is famous in Hollywood gossip history as the production that brought Elizabeth Taylor and Debbie Reynolds back within spitting distance of each other, nearly a half century after...
...Chávezism and restoring the U.S.'s image in Latin America would be to unilaterally lift the embargo on Cuba. The U.S. embargo has never worked as a tool to weaken Castro. Instead it has provided him with a wonderful excuse to hide his failures and justify the island's dire poverty and harsh political repression. The embargo is even less effective now that Cuba is so deeply intertwined economically and politically with Venezuela and other countries in the region. Embargoing Cuba without cutting off its ties to other countries is akin to staging an embargo against Portugal that ignores...
Kabul has long been seen as an island of stability in Afghanistan. But after four bombs this week ripped through the city in 48 hours, leaving one person dead and over 50 injured, the kind of violence that has become an almost daily occurrence in the south and east of Afghanistan came within the gates of the Afghan capital...
...political incentives. Since then, North Korea has continued to press for direct talks with the Bush Administration, which Washington has refused. And the U.S. has been quietly applying a chokehold to the regime's finances by clamping down on its money-laundering activities in the banks of the Chinese island of Macau...
...Roosevelt, died two days after giving birth to her in 1884. Later that same day, in the same house, T.R.'s mother died. A devastated Teddy retreated to the Dakota Territory to grieve. During her first three years, Alice was cared for by Teddy's sister Bamie on Long Island. After T.R. remarried, this time to his childhood sweetheart Edith Carow, Alice went to live with the couple and was eventually joined by five siblings. Teddy never mentioned Alice's deceased mother, a behavior Alice grew to describe as "dreadfully Victorian and mixed...