Jun 18, 2008 -
You brace yourself when your tot takes a tumble, but you never acknowledge the bumps and bruises that are inevitable as a parent. There are the ones you notice — when your wee one flips back her head as you look down and the bridge of your nose stings so badly your eyes fill — and, then there are the ones you are oblivious to like the toe marks on your stomach made by aspiring acrobats jumping across your midsection in such glee that you don't feel the painful indentations.
I rarely remember the gashes I get lunging across a playground structure to grab my son before he jumps off the side; Or, count the times I've whacked my forehead wrangling my kids into their carseats and hoisting the stroller into the tailgate.
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Jun 27, 2008 -
Thanks to my heritage, I have always been lucky in the sun. I never burned as a wee one, but as I have aged and become more aware of its harmful rays, my skin seems to have become more sensitive too.
Then, last weekend I discovered that a pregnant woman is no match for the sun.
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Jun 03, 2008 -
I am literally rounding the end of my third month of pregnancy with a fuller belly and more buxom bust. The bump has come on faster the second time around, which was not as surprising as it was alarming. At the rate I'm going, I anticipate looking like a beached whale by week 20.
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Oct 09, 2009 -
Actor Matt Damon, famous as the hero of the three Bourne movies, is also the star of films such as The Departed and The Informant! But the Oscar winner spends a lot of time working for charitable causes. We asked him why giving is so important.
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Oct 04, 2009 -
For Interview`s 40th anniversary, cover girl Kristen Stewart was interviewed by celebrated actor Dennis Hopper – who accepted the assignment with a bit of an ulterior motive. "My daughter is your biggest fan, so I thought, `What the hell?` " the actor joked when Stewart admiringly asked why he agreed to conduct the Q&A. The daughter made out too: The Twilight star happily obliged to speak to Hopper`s 6-year-old daughter, Galen.
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Sep 29, 2009 -
by Amy Larocca
GLAMOUR: So would you like to do musical theater?
SJ: I would love to work on Broadway, but I don’t know that it would manifest itself in musical theater…. I have terrible stage fright that I’d have to get over.
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Sep 23, 2009 -
The underdogs
By Thomas Sowell
It is a good reflection on Americans that they tend to be on the side of the underdog. But it is often hard to tell who is in fact the underdog, or why.
Many years ago, there was a big, lumbering catcher named Ernie Lombardi whose slowness afoot was legendary.
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Sep 15, 2009 -
http://spectator.org/archives/2009/09/15/media-malpractice-tom-brokaws/
Media Malpractice: Tom Brokow's World Implodes
By Jeffrey Lord on 9.15.09 @ 6:08AM
Tom Brokaw.
With the passing of Walter Cronkite, Mr. Brokaw is considered perhaps the new "dean" of journalism. As such the former NBC News anchor is periodically summoned forth to assess the current world, an occasion that presented itself recently on the venerable NBC Sunday newser Meet the Press.
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Jul 17, 2009 -
Friday, July 17, 2009; 11:38 AM
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/17/AR2009071701596.html
SPEAKER: PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA
OBAMA: Thank you. What an extraordinary night, capping off an extraordinary week, capping off an extraordinary 100 years at the NAACP. (Applause.) So Chairman Bond, Brother Justice, I am so grateful to all of you for being here.
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Jun 15, 2009 -
((Sorry this is so long, and the language is rough...))
On a muggy Florida evening in 2008, I meet Iraq War veteran Forrest Fogarty in the Winghouse, a little bar-restaurant on the outskirts of Tampa, his favorite hangout. He told me on the phone I would recognize him by his skinhead. Sure enough, when I spot a white guy at a table by the door with a shaved head, white tank top and bulging muscles, I know it can only be him.
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