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...Martin Short makes his first appearance onstage at the top of a lavish Hello Dolly staircase - with his head cut off by the top of the proscenium. It's a fitting way to get things started, since Fame Becomes Me, his slick, scattered, very funny new Broadway musical, is all about showbiz ego being cut down to size. Short calls it a one-man show - but five terrific performers are on hand to share the spotlight (and on occasion upstage him). He bills it as the story of his life - troubled childhood, years of hoofing in Broadway chorus lines...
...eight years of debt if she were to go on to medical school. Truman was closer to home, had a student-faculty ratio of 15:1, and its graduates have a "very impressive" rate of acceptance to medical schools. Carla Valenzuela, 18, who graduated in the spring from Martin Luther King Academic Magnet school in Nashville, Tenn., applied to 13 schools--and wound up picking her last choice. She turned down Amherst, Wellesley and Dartmouth in favor of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Part of the draw was being near a big city; part was the offer...
...Hillary appeared to vanish as he set the audience on fire at Coretta Scott King's funeral in February. When Hillary's moment came, aides noticed something familiar about her ponderous tribute: she was lifting the best line of her husband's 2004 Democratic National Convention speech. She memorialized Martin Luther King Jr.'s widow as having risen from her grief after his assassination to tell the civil rights movement, "Send me." It was a leaden version of the "send me" riff with which Bill had electrified the crowd in Boston two years ago, describing John Kerry's Vietnam service...
...drugs, and it's this kind of combined effort that will be needed to prevent HIV-AIDS from worsening in Africa, and from sprialling out of control in countries like China and India. "It's one week every two years to express solidarity for the AIDS movement, "says Dr. Martin Markowitz, of New York City's Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center who makes it a point to attend. "I think by not coming, you cheat yourself and you cheat the movement." And when it comes to fighting HIV, that's something we just can't afford to do right...
...there possibly be anything left to say to women about the do's and don'ts of dating? Absolutely, says Giuliana DePandi, 30, the co-anchor with Ryan Seacrest on E! News and author of Think Like a Guy: How to Get a Guy by Thinking Like One (St. Martin's Griffin). DePandi gives 66 tips for dating success for women of any age. And they work, she promises: she declares herself "head over heels In love" with her Mr. Right, who she says is not allowed to read the book. DePandi spoke with TIME's publishing reporter Andrea Sachs...