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...When Oprah Winfrey announced that she was getting into the reality-TV business, it seemed to make as much sense as declaring that her book club would henceforth be devoted to discussing first-person-shooter video games. From her talk show to TV movies like Tuesdays with Morrie, Oprah is the queen of middlebrow televisual uplift. Whereas reality TV is better known for--what's the opposite of uplift? Downpush...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reality TV Wants to Heal You | 4/10/2008 | See Source »

Bestselling author and Today show and Oprah regular Michele Weiner Davis, is no stranger to private marital matters. Weiner Davis, a clinical social worker, has been working closely with couples - those on the brink of divorce or otherwise in crisis - for more than 20 years. She's collected some of her wisdom in her new book, The Sex-Starved Wife: What to Do When He's Lost Desire (Simon & Schuster), another intimate "brown paper bag" title, as she jokingly calls it (others include Divorce Busting and The Sex-Starved Marriage). TIME reporter Andrea Sachs caught up with Weiner Davis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Help for Sex-Starved Wives | 4/7/2008 | See Source »

Another memorable experience for Lee was meeting Oprah Winfrey. Lee says he shook her hand and gave her a hug after filming her at a rally last December...

Author: By Lauren D. Kiel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Taking a Hike on the Presidential Trail | 3/21/2008 | See Source »

...driving Durbin around and hugging Oprah probably weren’t as exciting as a certain basketball game he was able to play...

Author: By Lauren D. Kiel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Taking a Hike on the Presidential Trail | 3/21/2008 | See Source »

...That desire for a more challenging faith helps explain the appeal of Trinity, despite its potential for controversy. The church, which has ministered to poor South Side families and Oprah Winfrey alike, isn't fringe, but neither is it a likely home for someone plotting a political career in Chicago. "If you're black and you're trying to get ahead in politics, you're not going to join Trinity," says Dwight Hopkins, a Trinity member who is also a professor at U. of C.'s Divinity School. "Not because it's radical - it isn't radical in its context...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Origin of Obama's Pastor Problem | 3/20/2008 | See Source »

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