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Continuing a tradition among Washington's power elite, President-elect Barack Obama and his wife have decided to send their kids to Sidwell Friends School. Michelle Obama confirmed yesterday that Malia and Sasha, the incoming first daughters, will enroll at the pricey private school when the family...(more)
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Two months before Barack Obama won the election, Dionne Warwick asked the largest hotel in Washington to hold space for her inaugural party. The Newseum, the newest potential party venue along Pennsylvania Avenue, was booked by New York promoter Jay Norris a month before Election...(more)
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Dr. Frederick K. Goodwin, a psychiatrist, earned income from drug makers that he didn’t report on his radio show.
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NEW DELHI -- She was a gutsy student leader known for hunger strikes and provocative street theater at universities across the country, exposing the plight of India's beleaguered lower castes. He was a worldly gadfly with a passion for ending nuclear proliferation and exposing environmental...(more)
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NEW YORK, Nov. 20 -- Financier and arts philanthropist Alberto Vilar and his business partner Gary Tanaka were found guilty Wednesday of a scheme to steal $20 million from clients of Amerindo Investment Advisors, which made and then lost billions of dollars for investors in...(more)
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The University of Maryland's "white opera" is a tease. Each fall, the university's opera studio puts on a production with colorless muslin costumes and no orchestra -- it's also called the "piano opera," though for Benjamin Britten's "A Midsummer Night's Dream," there were bells and...(more)
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We let Stephen Colbert and all of his "truthiness" come into our homes, but how well do we know this man, this faux anchor from Comedy Central's late-night hit "The Colbert Report"? Well, we can glean this: He seems to have a thing for certain...(more)
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"Metropolitan Cooking & Entertainment Special" (Channel 50 at 8) offers tips for throwing parties, from large bashes to small get-togethers. Soledad O'Brien reports in "One Crime at a Time" (CNN at 8), which examines efforts in New Orleans to stop crime and bring order to...(more)
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The students buzzed excitedly as they stood in the freezing dark at American University while Secret Service agents searched their backpacks. They filled one auditorium and overflowed into another, waiting to see a Latin American leader who has become a folk hero to his poor...(more)
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Stephen Colbert gets to show off his singing voice, and his screaming voice, in "A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All," a holiday special like no other. Actually, it's a holiday special like all others, in that it includes a snowy, simulated sleigh ride,...(more)
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In less than a week's time, it will have become socially acceptable to wear reindeer sweaters and wait in line outside Best Buy at 5 a.m. One can descend into the annual holiday cycle of shopping, guilt and weight gain, along with performance after performance...(more)
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Vernon Hills High students work with non-profit to train assistance dogs Kiowa may be young for high school. But at 10 months, the black Labrador mix has mastered the age-old teen greeting: high-five.
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