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There's baking soda and vinegar, gasoline and a match, acid and eyeballs and Oprah and James Frey. Or wait - should we scratch that last pair off the list? Has the notorious and telegenic feud between the two cooled? According to an article in Vanity Fair, which has been confirmed by Oprah's folks, the talk-show host recently reached out to the best-selling author she annihilated on live TV a few years ago for fibbing in his memoir...
...explicit discrimination has receded in the last two decades, culminating in the elevation of an African-American to the Presidency, a woman to the House Speakership and a black woman to the galactic dominance known as being Oprah Winfrey, those who study the effects of racism and sexism have had to cope with a difficult question: If discrimination is less powerful, why do some groups in society continue to fare worse than others? Has bias merely become better hidden, or are there other forces at work...
...more often today with biological reality. (See the recent paternity-suit travails of Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo, who has admitted to fathering a child and is alleged to have sired others while he was still a priest.) A bigger problem for the church, however, may be Cutié's Oprah-like standing in the Latino community - the only demographic where U.S. Catholicism is experiencing growth. America's Catholic bishops, many of whom are widely accused of allowing the sexual-abuse crisis to happen, must realize that Cutié is more well regarded among Catholics than they are, especially among Latinos...
...Kindle, the Porsche, and most other expensive and discretionary purchases made in the United States are made by older people. It is not unusual that Kindle sales spiked when Oprah said how much she loved the product. Oprah was born in 1954, and most of the people who watch her on TV or read her magazine are probably middle aged or older. (Read Oprah Winfrey on Michelle Obama from the TIME...
...people's lives for the better. But not everyone. Bernie Madoff is on this year's list. So is one of the world's most notorious drug dealers. In the end, we tried to cover as much ground as possible--and to match our subjects with pitch-perfect writers: Oprah Winfrey on Michelle Obama, Ted Turner on T. Boone Pickens (and vice versa), Roger Federer on Tiger Woods, Angelina Jolie on Cambodian activist Somaly Mam. All bring passion and expertise to their portraits. Some, like filmmaker Michael Moore on the aforementioned Madoff, bring a note of polemics...