By Douglas Holtz-Eakin
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Steve Alford walked into Pauley Pavilion on Tuesday for the first time since the 1984 Summer Olympics, took his place under the 11 national championship banners and called his new job as UCLA basketball coach "a challenge."
As airport officials tried to figure out how a 300-pound arrival-departure panel fell off the wall and onto a family, the mother of a boy who was killed by the sign lay in a hospital with her own injuries, still unaware of what happened.
Robert Louis Stevenson is the author of "Treasure Island" and "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," some of the most thrilling stories in literary history. But in a newly discovered essay, he says he was often bored by the fiction of his day.
Even with the best of intentions, sometimes offering advice to help a friend can backfire. Badly.
Back in the mists of time when the White House press corps was much smaller and far less pompous, President Lyndon Johnson often called a small pool of regulars into the Cabinet Room to casually plant some off-the-record point he wanted made without being quoted. The point often came only after some lengthy, and usually earthy, LBJ yarn.
Kevin Tsujihara was named the next chief executive of the Warner Bros. studio, one of the oldest and the largest producers of TV shows and movies in Hollywood. He'll take over from Barry Meyer on March 1.
Performances of rare and enduring power fuel "Rust and Bone," the story of a chronically unemployed bare-knuckle street fighter and a marine mammal trainer maimed in a grievous mishap who find in each other companionship and some version of love.
This year's Black Friday shoppers were split into two distinct groups: those who wanted to fall into a turkey-induced slumber and those who'd rather shop instead.
Set in suburban Pittsburgh in the early 1990s, in the waning days of the mix-tape era, "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" comes on like an ordinary movie about a sensitive naif struggling to survive the casual slights of freshman year of high school. But what emerges from a seemingly stereotypical setting is a moving and disquieting meditation on trauma and survival.
Football games and awkward dances, late-night gabfests at the local diner and tentative first kisses _ they're all there over the course of a school year in "The Perks of Being a Wallflower."
Football games and awkward dances, late-night gabfests at the local diner and tentative first kisses _ they're all there over the course of a school year in "The Perks of Being a Wallflower."
The prepared text of Saturday's speech by Rep. Paul, the Wisconsin congressman named by Mitt Romney as his vice presidential running mate:
The following remarks were delivered by Rep. Paul Ryan, chairman of the House Budget committee in Norfolk, Va.
Andy Griffith's gift to the show that bore his name wasn't just the homespun wisdom of the plain-spoken sheriff he played. It was the place he created: a small town where all foibles are forgiven and friendships are forever, full of characters who felt like family.
Andy Griffith's gift to the show that bore his name wasn't just the homespun wisdom of the plain-spoken sheriff he played. It was the place he created: a small town where all foibles are forgiven and friendships are forever, full of characters who felt like family.
