A wealthy Egyptian woman convicted of conspiring to kidnap her grandson in the U.S.and take himto Cairo has had her jail sentence reduced from 10 years to three. Afaf Khalifa, 60, was found guilty in January on felony kidnapping charges for helping her daughter, Nermeen, steal 6-year-old Adam Shannon away …
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Environmental extremists are exploiting the Sept. 11 attacks in their latest attempt to destroy the chemical industry.Sen. John Corzine (search), D-N.J., is aiding and abetting the eco-scoundrels under the guise of improving homeland security. The battleground is the debate over the security of chemical facilities, a controversy stoked by the …
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Jimmy Fallon|Woody Allen|Brad Pitt|Tribeca Film Festival Jimmy Fallon: Exiting Saturday Night Live? Nothing could have been more excruciating than watching this past weekend’s Saturday Night Live. Not funny? Not even an issue. Painful? That’s a problem. Irrelevant, not irreverent. Crashing and burning. So I will tell you that it’s pretty …
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COALINGA, Calif. – Bullfighting (search)might be more common in Madrid or Lisbon, but under a canopy of oak trees in Coalinga, Calif., Dennis Borba makes his stand. Borba is the lone American matador in theFiesta Brava (search), a Portuguese tradition of bloodless bullfighting, now held in the United States. “To …
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George Plimpton | Garry Shandling | Caroline Kennedy | Pill Dropper | Blues Filmfest | Soap in a Lather George Plimpton Was Behind New Capote Project Two deaths were reported in the world of the famous today: writer George Plimpton, who was 76, and singer-songwriter Robert Palmer, 54. For those …
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How strange is theRosie O’Donnell trial with magazine publisher Gruner + Jahr? I’ll say this for it. Not since the folks at BMG Music, a subsidiary — like G+J — of Bertelsmann Inc. tried to force Clive Davis out of Arista Records have I seen anything like this. At Bertlesmann …
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“Mercury threat to children rising,” blared a front-page Wall Street Journal article this week. “A report warning that emissions of mercury by coal-fired power plants and other industrial sources pose an increasing danger to young children has been delayed nine months, while the Bush administration struggles with how to handle …
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More bad news Tuesday. Dow down more than 500 points. Just hang in there. Work hard, tough it out, don’t panic. The bottom will soon be reached. Now with the second presidential debate about an hour away, John McCain must tap into the country’s anger if he wants to win, …
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For the second time in less than a year, Vice President Dick Cheney will undergo a procedure at George Washington University Hospital to restore his normal heart rhythm. Cheney, 67, experienced an abnormal heart rhythm Wednesday morning during a visit with his doctors. “It was discovered that the vice president …
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I have to say I’m surprised that a nasty culture war battle has erupted so soon after the presidential election, this one over gay marriage. You’d think there would be a cooling down period after the vote. Not so. Wednesday night we showed you a confrontation in Palm Springs, California, …
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