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...During her decade at GMA, Sawyer famously snagged highly desirable guests because she was Diane freakin' Sawyer. Celebrities were warm to her because she was married to director Mike Nichols, the world's most genial man. Hard-news guests appreciated her résumé of serious journalism, which includes stints on 60 Minutes and Primetime Live. Plus, she's a legendarily hard worker. (A request for an interview - she must have gotten hundreds - was met with a polite personal e-mail: "I'm not talking right now but will remember you called.") As a booker at a rival show...
...York City resident charged with murdering a Cambridge man in a Harvard University dorm had his probable cause hearing, originally scheduled to take place yesterday, moved to Oct. 19. Jason Aquino, who has been charged with murder, firearm use in a felony, accessory after the fact, and armed robbery, is accused of participating in the killing of Justin Cosby, a 21-year old Cambridge resident unaffiliated with the University, in Kirkland House earlier this year. Authorities arrested Aquino this July in his Harlem apartment, and he was arraigned in Manhattan Criminal Court the next day. He pled not guilty...
...opposite sex to curb our appetites, at least when we're single. In a study to be published in the October issue of Appetite, researchers at Montreal's McGill University secretly observed 460 college students eating in the campus cafeterias. They found that when a woman was with a man, she ate about 100 calories less than when she was with a woman. The more men present in larger eating groups, the fewer calories a woman had on her tray. Women ate roughly 100 fewer calories for each man at the table. But there was no such effect...
...Grassley has the upbeat, Hawkeye stubbornness that Meredith Willson, who hailed from the county next to the Senator's, made famous in The Music Man. He is one of the few people still arguing that a grand bipartisan deal is possible - though he suggests that the way to get there is through a Democratic surrender. "There's a feeling that the only way to get a bipartisan agreement is to defeat a Democratic proposal on the first hand, and then the Democrats will come to Republican leadership, and then, at that point, they'll know the only way they...
...abbot didn't bother to lower his voice. Around us were sitting half a dozen local Buddhist worshippers, including one man whose aggressive curiosity about my presence made him a likely informant for the repressive Burmese junta. No matter, the abbot had no time for fear. "This is a very famous monastery," he said, as I, the first foreign visitor in many months, nodded. "Important people have come here: Nehru, Indira Gandhi and, of course, the Lady...