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In 2005, actress Laura Linney described her Oscar-readying process as simply putting on her J. Mendel gown when it arrived. It might be safe to assume that Linney, who is up for lead actress in Sunday’s Academy Awards, does a little more primping in preparation for Hollywood’s most glamorous night. …

So on NPR I found the funniest story ever: It’s about Julio Diaz, a 31-year-old social worker who got mugged on the subway by a teen armed with a knife. Julio offered him his wallet. But as the mugger left, he also offered his jacket. “To keep you warm,” he …

Neverland Update | Neverland Scam: A ‘Thriller’ | Tom Cruise: Code Name ‘Sissy’? | Kate Moss Is Real; Cynthia Lennon Checks In Neverland Update As I told you Wednesday, the auction of Michael Jackson‘s ranch may be forestalled by a loan extension offered by his loan holder Fortress Investments. Jackson’s …

Michael Jackson | Laura Linney | John DeLorean Jacko Album Only Finished Five Weeks Ago As we head into tomorrow’s release of Michael Jackson‘s Invinciblealbum, here’s a factoid we didn’t know before. Jackson was still working on the album on Sept. 21, the day of the all-star national telethon. This …

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan – A small warren of shops surrounds the dusty field outside Islamabad where displaced Afghans come to sell utensils and used clothes every Tuesday. They scatter their scraps of clothing or battered hardware on blankets and wait as customers kick up a cloud of choking dust in their …

NEW YORK – “When you are partnerless in your 30s, the mild bore of not being in a relationship … gets infused with the paranoid notion that … it is all your fault for being too wild or willful to settle down in the first bloom of youth.” So writes …

I received a bunch of mail this week about our chats with older guys being called back to work. 69-year-old former Chrysler dynamo Bob Lutz saddling up again, this time as the new number two at General Motors. 70-year-old John Guttfreund working his old Salomon Brothers magic at a nutrition …

Sometimes statistics don’t really mean much. That may seem crazy for me to say, being a business guy and all that. But on a day like today, statistics mean even less. I know you’re a thousand times more at risk in a car than on a plane. More apt to …

Theories that the explosion of a faulty experimental torpedo caused the sinking of the Russian nuclear submarine Kursk reportedly were confirmed by acoustic spy tapes gathered by U.S. military intelligence, although U.S. officials deny the tapes’ existence. In Russia, Deputy Prime Minister Ilya Klebanov, chairman of the commission investigating the …

Jesse Jackson reappears on CNN on the Lou Dobbs program. That’s the subject of this evening’s Talking Points memo. As you may know, we have been trying to get Reverend Jackson on The Factor to explain how so many mistakes were made on his tax-exempt tax returns, but Jackson will …