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Built Eastwood tough Actor's gritty parade of past characters informs his role in 'Gran Torino'
Published January 9, 2009, 12:14 am, Ventura County Star
The racist, homophobic “Dirty Harry” Callahan has retired in Detroit. Sgt. Highway of “Heartbreak Ridge” may not wear his stripes, but he still keeps his rifle loaded. And William Munny, the haunted, aged gunfighter of “Unforgiven,” has one last shot at redemption.
Choosing commemorative stamps: Citizens' Advisory Committee sifts through thousands of submissions
Published January 8, 2009, 6:12 pm, The Huntington Herald-Dispatch
Annual commemorative stamp subjects are highly guarded -- and anticipated -- by the philatelic community and others, like me, who love the mail, write lots of letters and look forward to their own mail moment every day.
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Published January 8, 2009, 11:52 am, The Capital
Bee Vang, John Carroll Lynch and Clint Eastwood in a scene from "Gran Torino." The racist, homophobic "Dirty Harry" Callahan has retired in Detroit. Sgt. Highway of "Heartbreak Ridge" may not wear his stripes, but he still keeps his rifle loaded.
Forest graduate succeeding at Rice
Published January 8, 2009, 7:07 am, Cypress Sun
Aleks Perka is getting a top-notch education for free, playing against some of the top programs in college basketball and lbuilding towards a career in sports management.
A Berliner?s Portraits of People and Her Familiar, and Foreign, Home
Published January 8, 2009, 3:40 am, New York Times
The photographer Gisèle Freund, whose work is on display in two different exhibitions in Berlin, wasn?t a great photojournalist, but she was a gifted pioneer.
Dance defines her life, Beaverton instructor says
Published January 8, 2009, 1:23 am, The Oregonian
Anya Klimova-Preston begins a new round of classes at the YMCA Joe Fitzgibbon/Special to The OregonianAnya Klimova-Preston, former Russian dance champion and award-winning coach, teaches ballroom dancing to 4-year-old Lazar Isakharov at the Beaverton YMCA. BEAVERTON -- Anya Klimova-Preston...
Mobile phones - not the hazard we thought
Published January 7, 2009, 9:35 pm, Guardian Unlimited
Previously, the only good thing about being in hospital, apart from staying in bed all day, was the freedom from mobile phones. Not any more. This week, the Department of Health said that NHS trusts should allow "the widest possible use" of mobile phones in hospitals. There is evidence that electromagnetic radiation emitted by mobiles can interfere with some electronic medical equipment, ...
Martin Russell: Anti-apartheid activist and painter
Published January 7, 2009, 4:04 pm, Independent
A brief resume of Martin Russell's eventful life illustrates why he was described by one of his family as "a true contrarian, but a highly principled contrarian". He was a Christian who became an atheist, a conscientious objector who went on to become a full-time saboteur in South Africa, immersing himself in the world of dynamite and detonators. A lifelong opponent of Communism, he began to ...
TLW still nurtures abstinence til marriage
Published January 7, 2009, 1:51 pm, BPNews.net
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--The "True Love Waits" abstinence-until-marriage movement has recorded numerous milestones since its launch by LifeWay Christian Resources of the Southern Baptist Convention.
Gordon Fellman: A New Idea for How to Save the US Auto Industry
Published January 7, 2009, 1:28 pm, HuffingtonPost
It is fully understandable that in the culture of the rich and powerful, anything goes if it serves the purposes of making money and living extremely well.
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