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With apologies to the Royal Family.
The wedding of the decade is creeping ever closer, and it’s getting harder and harder to sneak around the outskirts of the thing and avoid the hype.
Unless you live in a broom closet, here’s what you probably know: Britain’s Prince William and Kate Middleton will wed in Westminster Abbey at the end of April. And, maybe you’re on top of this: the royal couple lives in Wales. On the island of Anglesey, where William pilots helicopters in the Royal Air

In 1968, sanitation workers in Memphis, Tennessee carried picket signs with four simple but powerful words: “I AM A Man.” These workers — African-American men in a segregated city — held some of the most grueling, under-appreciated but essential jobs in our society: collecting their fellow citizens’ garbage. On February 12, more than 1,300 Memphis sanitation workers went on strike for fair wages, reliable work schedules, safe working conditions, recognition of their union (AFSCME Local 1733), and, most important of all, recognition of their human dignity.
On April 4, while visiting Memphis in support of the strike, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated. On the eve of his death, he gave his famous “I have been to the mountaintop” speech, in which he declared: “I’ve seen the promised

Their names are now just footnotes in the history of American motorsports: Jim Davis. Gene Walker. Fred Ludlow. Albert “Shrimp”

According to an internal e-mail intercepted by Politico, the Republican National Committee is hoping to sponsor its own series of primary debates during the upcoming 2012 presidential campaign. The principal motive appears to be financial: by requiring participants to attend party fund-raisers in conjunction with each debate, the cash-strapped RNC sees a way to monetize its candidates’ efforts. The secondary motive is control: by staging the programs themselves, the party gets to determine the number of debates, their length and format, the participants, moderators, and all other pertinent details.
On both counts, this is a supremely bad idea. For starters, debates represent one of the few aspects of modern presidential campaigns free from the taint of

Season one of Dennis the Menace just out on DVD from Shout! Factory, is a bracing throwback to a bygone era when kids on TV were allowed to be kids. In the golden age of the family sitcom, children (with the exception of wiseacre Rusty from Make Room for Daddy) didn’t zing their parents like Borsht-belt comics. They didn’t lead fantasy double lives. They didn’t explain it all for

Those interested in this thorny question should read Brent Lang’s revealing article (which appeared yesterday in TheWrap.com) about this year’s CinemaCon convention in Las Vegas, the trade show where the major studios come to thank their exhibitors, discuss mutual needs and challenges, and (increasingly) reassure them about a highly uncertain future.
From the sound of things, it’s not going too well. After exerting tons of pressure to get exhibitors to spend big bucks to convert to digital, thus far the product the studios have been pushing hasn’t been worthy of the theatre owners’ precious investment.
Box office is down, by nearly twenty percent. Ladies and gentlemen, that is one scary — and telling — statistic.
With exhibitors feeling the pinch, you’ve got James Cameron, the biggest elephant in the room, talking about the need for further change — not in making better movies mind you, but in increasing motion picture frame

This week’s Animal Oddity started on Facebook when wildlife photographer Joe Milmoe posted this striking photo of a hellbender foot.
When I saw this picture, I was struck at how utterly alien it looked and at the same time, how bizarrely human it looked too. This appendage belongs not to an alien or some computer-generated creation but to a completely natural creature that shares this planet with us. Yet through photography it can still be revealed to be absolutely strange. What is this animal that is so unearthly-looking yet, in the grand scheme of the universe, shares anatomy strikingly similar to ours?
Hellbenders are the largest amphibians in North America, and the third largest salamanders in the

A few weeks ago, Rep. Peter King of Long Island stirred up simmering prejudices with congressional hearings on Islamic “radicalization” in the U.S., which yielded little actual information about security risks and spread plenty of misinformation about Muslim communities. This past week, Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois tried to counterbalance King’s blatherfest with a hearing on Muslim Americans’ civil

Or put another way, is there any limit to how small or poorly attended a Tea Party rally can be before the press finally stops showering the right-wing movement with coverage? Based on the avalanche of reporting that yesterday’s minuscule Tea Party rally in Washington, D.C., generated, the answer appears to be, no.
Just how sparse was the Tea Party crowd? A Bloomberg dispatch tactfully noted the rally attracted “dozens” of supporters.
Dozens!
I realize the fact that many high-profile members of Congress were scheduled speak at the Thursday rally meant it was going to be covered regardless, that there was an automatic news hook in place regardless of the Tea Party turnout.
But still, it’s long past time that reporters and pundits started telling the truth about the incredibly shrinking Tea Party movement in America. And it’s time members of the press corps asked themselves why they continue to cover Tea Party events that draw “dozens.” (I guarantee you that if Media Matters promoted a rally in the nation’s capital and invited members of Congress to speak, there would be a hell of a lot more than “dozens” of

A year ago President Obama signed into law the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (the “Affordable Care Act”), guaranteeing access to health coverage for 32 million uninsured people in America including 95 percent of all children. Racial minorities are disproportionately uninsured today and the Affordable Care Act will have a particularly positive impact in communities of color if allowed to go forward.
The first pieces of the Affordable Care Act to take effect have brought critical relief to millions of children and young adults. As implementation of the law proceeds insurers can no longer deny coverage to children with pre-existing conditions, impose annual or lifetime caps on coverage, or revoke coverage when someone gets sick. Insurers must cover preventive services for children without co-payments or cost

The Fourth Federal National Incidence Study on Child Maltreatment released in 2010 reports a 19 percent reduction in the overall rate of child maltreatment since the 1993 study. Good news, to be sure. However, a longer perspective and closer analysis are needed in order to place these gains in context.
The rate of child maltreatment today is 75 percent higher than the rate reported in the first national incidence study in 1980 and 16 percent above the rate in the second study in 1986. Whatever gains have been made since the third study in 1993 are modest and limited to a measurable reduction in sexual abuse and some forms of physical

Suppose I took a call from a banker-friend at Citigroup on December 13, 2010, and he informed me that he had just observed other Citi bankers meeting with David Sokol, an executive of Berkshire Hathaway and possible successor to Warren Buffett, the CEO. He discovered Sokol expressed interest in a company called Lubrizol and requested a meeting with the company’s president.
Buffett himself made it public that Sokol investigated a Chinese battery and electric car maker, BYD, in which Berkshire made a substantial investment. The shares subsequently soared in

Today I turned 55. How do I feel about being five years into my fifties? I love it. I’m at the top of my game professionally (with a million things on my to-do list), and I think I’ve never looked better.
And I mean that bit about loving how I

MIKE BIRBIGLIA’S MY GIRLFRIEND’S BOYFRIEND *** out of ****
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Why hasn’t some TV network/cable channel snapped up comic Mike Birbiglia for a sitcom? He’s all over TV talk shows and radio’s This American Life. He’s got a bestselling collection of comic pieces. His last one-man show — Sleepwalk With Me — will be filmed as a movie this summer. Plus, Birbiglia has a mildly self-deprecating, Everyman appeal, a slightly skewed and self-aware perspective on life, a deceptively lazy low-key delivery and of course excellent comic

In 1972, a young girl received an MIA bracelet for Christmas. It was a simple metal band upon which was engraved the name of a soldier who was missing in action; it was popular at the time to don the bracelet until the soldier whose name was on it came back home. She put it on that day, beside the family Christmas tree, and never took it off because the man had never returned nor had he ever been found.
The missing soldier was a Green Beret named James Leslie Moreland, a medic in the Army Special Forces. He was 22 years old when he went missing on February 7,

The matter of bigotry against Muslims in America has been with us for quite some time now. In the past week, there were multiple incidents that served to catapult this problem to the forefront of national attention.
On Sunday, CNN broadcast “Unwelcome: The Muslims Next Door” a remarkable documentary, produced by Soledad O’Brien, that tells the story of the conflict in Murfreesboro, TN over whether or not that town’s Muslim community would be allowed to build a new mosque.
Murfreesboro, we are told by some of its residents, prides itself on being a “welcoming community” and a “family”. But in this documentary we see them speaking for themselves, angry, spewing hate, and striking out at their own Muslim

You find yourself taking forever to make a decision, complete the work in front of you or even get dressed in the morning. One woman spent two hours getting her makeup just right, finding the right combination of clothes. Another man bored his friends with his continual indecisiveness about what he was going to order for lunch. Another woman couldn’t get her work completed because she had plaguing doubts that it just wasn’t good

“Cheer up, watch funny shows, laugh heartily and you’ll stay healthy!” It’s ever-present advice, but it’s wrong, wrong, wrong. We hear it all the time. If you’re ill, spend a few days glued to the screen watching the exuberance of “Glee” and the laugh-out-loud comedy of “Seinfeld” reruns and, so goes the common wisdom, you’ll have a speedy recovery. Or even better, stay cheery and you won’t get sick in the first

According to a front-page article in the March 31, 2011 edition of New York Times describing research by Dr. Alexandra Brewis of Arizona State University, there seems to be a global aversion to fat people.
She, along with her team, interviewed people via the Internet in 10 countries and cities including American Samoa, Mexico, New Zealand and London to assess attitudes towards the obese. Even the Samoans, who are used to regarding a large body as beautiful, are changing.
The reasons for this stigmatization of obesity range from cosmetic to economic and from fashion to

Our lives have transformed so dramatically when it comes to utilizing technology to communicate. We have our hand-held devices, our iPads and tablets as well as our Facebook pages. But, what is most exciting is that we are finally seeing the wireless generation being applied to help advance the care of chronic diseases and conditions.
For example, diabetes places a huge burden and tax on people’s health, quality of life and on our

Today is World Autism Awareness Day. The United Nations established this day in 2007 (Resolution 62/139) to annually raise awareness of autism as a global health crisis with particular emphasis on early diagnosis and early intervention. This is also a day to celebrate the unique talents and accomplishments of individuals living with autism in each of our communities worldwide. To commemorate the event, prominent buildings and icons in the United States and around the world — including the Empire State Building in New York City –will turn their outer lights blue on April 1 and 2.
With 1 out of 110 children diagnosed with an Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) in the United States today (a new case is diagnosed almost every 15 minutes) parents and professionals must strive to identify those children at risk as soon as

Both Prince William and Catherine had their secret stag (bachelor) party and hen night (bachelorette party) last week. What is most remarkable is how successfully they managed to eluded the press — all of whom were anxious to find out any snippets of information. As Prince William stated with satisfaction yesterday, “It’s quite good news always to outfox the media, but it [the stag] was a military operation, and my brother and I are very proud of how it went.”
Rather than the extreme water-sports and an evening pub crawl by boat that was widely reported, it’s understood that the guys had a much more low-key weekend at a friend’s country estate instead. Although some tabloid magazines have reported that it was held in Norfolk, the latest information from royal editors in the UK revealed that it actually took place at Hartland Abbey, a historic estate in

No time to page through thousands of eBay listings? Then just sneak a peek at my weekly eBay roundup of top vintage clothing finds.
This eclectic mix of designer and non-designer vintage clothing and accessories caught my discerning eye because of their uniqueness, contemporary feel or highly collectible nature.
As always, buyer beware! Be sure to read the listings closely and contact the sellers with any questions.
Today’s selections include pieces by Chanel, Hermes, YSL and Oscar de la Renta. Be sure to check out the 1980s dress that is identical to one worn by Princess Diana and the stunning Ceil Chapman cocktail dress.
Which item is your favorite? Leave me a comment below to let me know and please take a minute to rate your favorite slides.
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