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Oprah offers a boost to Chicago's 2016 Olympic bid
03.09.2008 20:24
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The city of Chicago is getting the kind of high-profile boost to its bid to host the 2016 Summer Olympics that only Oprah Winfrey ...
USA
Television
Late-night hosts tread lightly with Palin pregnancy
03.09.2008 20:24
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The pregnancy of Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin's unwed daughter was fair game for late-night comics, but ...
USA
Television
Letterman won't go 'much beyond' 2010
03.09.2008 20:24
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David Letterman wants to stick with CBS' Late Show through his contract and maybe longer as rival Jay Leno prepares to surrender ...
USA
Television
Fall books preview: These ten titles are certain to be 'talkers'
03.09.2008 20:24
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Oprah Winfrey and book clubs across America get it: Certain books are "talkers." They make you think, react and want to chat ...
USA
Books & CD
New in paper: Diverse fiction, non-fiction
03.09.2008 20:24
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From Junot Diaz's novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao to the story of an inventor seeking a cure for his blindness, here ...
USA
Books & CD
Book Buzz: Political hopefuls get a bookish boost
03.09.2008 20:24
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The Democratic National Convention pumped up book sales for Barack Obama (and the vice presidential hopefuls of both parties), ...
USA
Books & CD
'Little Book,' big story
03.09.2008 20:24
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There's nothing small about Selden Edwards' debut novel, The Little Book not its scale, ambitions or back story.
USA
Books & CD
'Zits' cartoonist Borgman takes Ohio newspaper buyout
03.09.2008 20:24
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Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Jim Borgman, who draws editorial cartoons and the Zits comic strip, is one of 60 people getting ...
USA
Books & CD
Mushrooms poison 'Horse Whisperer' author
03.09.2008 20:24
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The author of the best-selling novel The Horse Whisperer is recovering in a hospital after eating poisonous mushrooms during ...
USA
Books & CD
These 'Stand Up' celebs get set to help
03.09.2008 20:24
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Dozens of celebrities are participating in the Stand Up to Cancer special Friday at 8 p.m.(live ET/tape-delayed PT) on ABC, CBS, ...
USA
Recreation & Entertainment
'True Blood' could pump life into HBO
03.09.2008 20:24
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Will True Blood be a buzz transfusion for HBO? The pay-cable network is reuniting with the creator of one of its signature hits, ...
USA
Recreation & Entertainment
Nielsens: Democratic convention got viewers' attention
03.09.2008 20:24
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Democrats dazzle. Last week's Democratic National Convention in Denver drew a combined average of 30.2 million viewers in the ...
USA
Recreation & Entertainment
Garcia, Weir have their work cut out in order to catch Singh
03.09.2008 20:23
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Players still standing after two weeks of the FedExCup playoffs face a tall order trying to take down the Big Fijian.
USA
Golf
Sponsor asks LPGA to rethink English requirement
03.09.2008 20:23
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LPGA tournament sponsor State Farm Insurance is urging the women's golf organization to reconsider its recent policy that will ...
USA
Golf
Critics should take a mulligan in assessing LPGA policy
03.09.2008 20:23
usatoday.com
A tempest in a tee box flared this past week over the news that the LPGA Tour was requiring all of its international players, ...
USA
Golf
English