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Two weeks ago, Sid Ganis, the president of The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, and Salma Hayek, the cleavage at an otherwise mundane 5:30 a.m. press conference, announced the nominations for the 79th Annual Academy Awards. There were the contenders we all expected, some big snubs, and a...
It's not surprising that most take a pass on becoming rent-a-wombs for the nation. "I find it ridiculous," says Kyoko Tanabe, a 32-year-old translator in Tokyo. "I feel less and less enthusiastic about delivering a baby of my own into this world."
Amelia Bedelia’s charming conceit—the ridiculous assumption that a born-and-bred Englishwoman would fail to understand common expressions in her own tongue—is a hard, ironic truth for immigrants in the real world. Central Americans who leave their home countries to find...
Columbia scored more points in the first half against the Harvard men’s basketball team on Friday night than it had put up in any of its previous three games, all losses, thanks mainly to its dead-eye three-point shooting. The Lions defeated the Crimson, 90-70...
DIED. Molly Ivins, 62, acerbic commentator, whose columns skewered the high and mighty; after a seven-year fight with breast cancer; in Austin, Texas. Ivins, who famously referred to George W. Bush as "Shrub," could write with heartfelt earnestness yet just as naturally refer to height-challenged politicians as "runts...