'Your papers, please' must never be heard in America
"Invisible" (Bantam), by Carla Buckley
Some days life is one hilarious, gunpowder-packed cliche. A friend told me he once had a conversation with a daughter's potential suitor while oiling his rifle on the porch. I asked why he wanted to scare the kid like that.
A love of Ernest Hemingway's writing and the thrill of tracking down his many works led a Mississippi physician to amass a huge literary collection and donate it to the University of South Carolina so students and scholars could share it, the doctor said Tuesday.
A love of Ernest Hemingway's writing and the thrill of tracking down his many works led a Mississippi physician to amass a huge literary collection and donate it to the University of South Carolina so students and scholars could share it, the doctor said Tuesday.
Tori Pinheiro shed tears and shared the sorrow of the loss of her boyfriend as Boston University students, faculty and officials gathered in a campus plaza to mourn three classmates studying abroad who died in a minivan crash in New Zealand.
A San Francisco Chinese restaurant once known for having "the world's rudest waiter" may not be closing for good after all.
The Miss Alaska pageant requires contestants to perform a public service project. Under Debbe Ebben's silver tiara is evidence of hers.
President Barack Obama in lauding the actors, musicians and others receiving Kennedy Center Honors Sunday night, also was looking for advice.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton joined in celebrating the nation's top artists receiving the Kennedy Center Honors on Sunday while home for less than 36 hours between diplomatic travels.
A Kansas teenager who wrote a disparaging tweet about Gov. Sam Brownback said Sunday that she is rejecting her high school principal's demand for a written apology.
An 18-year-old was killed in a crash on the same five-mile stretch of highway that was named in memory of his father, a soldier killed by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan in 2008.
Theater director Michael Grandage will be leaving the acclaimed Donmar Warehouse after nine years at its helm.
On one of the recovery days he built into his team's training camp schedule, Eric Mangini leans back in a plush chair inside his apartment-sized office overlooking the Browns' lush practice fields, spits tobacco juice into an empty cup and lets out a hearty laugh.
Blu-ray reviews of Predator: Ultimate Hunter Edition from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Darkman and Flash Gordon from Universal Studios Home Entertainment.
Rod R. Blagojevich's friends scattered as investigators looking into his doomed Illinois governorship closed in. Some associates had already been indicted, others stopped returning calls.
"We feel that the players and current coaching staff had nothing to do with the situation," she said. "We came to try to be in a healing era for Penn State and all its victims, and I feel as a parent that my son is being punished for the ignorance of others."
Stanko's mother, Julie, said the family was shocked by the NCAA's decision to sanction the program.
