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...Named Oprah. Jecquin Stitt triumphed in a Ladies' Home Journal Oprah Winfrey look-alike contest and won an invitation to appear on the celebrity's talk show next week. Embarrassed editors later discovered Stitt was a man (albeit one undergoing a sex-change procedure) but didn't revoke the prize...
...Oprah, who was fat when you met her and thinner when you left, is fat once more, and swears that she will never diet again. Donald Trump used to be rich, but his emirate is currently under siege by creditors...
...could, for example, Concentrate! in Moral Reasoning. The standard departmental offerings are superb. Michael Sandel's "Justice," of course, is the bread and butter of this field. Like members of Oprah Winfrey's studio audience, you will discuss weighty issues facing American society...
Although it is impossible to assess the troop strength of this grass-roots movement, it is significant enough to spark a backlash. Recently Oprah Winfrey, no slouch of a trend barometer, featured "self-help addicts" on her TV show. Some reconsideration is coming from movement leaders, like Anne Wilson Schaef, author of When Society Becomes an Addict and Co-Dependence: Misunderstood, Mistreated. She now calls the term outdated and argues that it should be modernized with a new concept of relationship -- sex, love or romance -- addiction. Social psychologist and therapist Stanton Peele, author of Diseasing of America: Addiction Treatment...
...long as it emphasizes the sweep of history, this encyclopedia has dignity and flair. When it tries to keep up with current events, the book often resembles a hardbound USA Today. An untroubled Donald Trump appears, along with Wayne Gretzky, Jimmy Breslin and Oprah Winfrey. Parapsychology and the occult are given two massively illustrated layouts; the Holocaust merits less than half a page. In the section on American writers, James Baldwin stares out from a large color portrait, while Mark Twain is granted a small black-and- white snapshot, and Henry James is not seen at all, though oddly enough...