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January 9th, 2007
The real-life team chaplain remembers the tragedy depicted in the film We Are Marshall
In 1970, Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia, faced a tragedy of epic proportions when it lost its entire football squad, along with coaching staff, boosters and family members ...
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January 5th, 2007
Battling for the heart of Jewish mysticism, Hollywood and the Hasidim offer different paths
One rabbi who studied it grew crazy, one died and another became so bewildered that he lost his faith. According to Jewish tradition, the study of the Kabbalah ...
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January 3rd, 2007
Once sentenced to 20 years in prison for soliciting her husband's murder, a Chicago woman now helps former female inmates start over
Edith Hoskins knows exactly the point in her life when she turned to drugs.
From the age of eight until she was 11, she watched her stepfather beat her ...
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December 19th, 2006
Five gifts that will always be remembered, never be returned and won't cost you a dime
What's the best gift you've ever received? Classic big-ticket items like cars, jewelry, or expensive electronics might be hard to top but I'd be willing to wager ...
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December 19th, 2006
The Arizona Cardinals QB is no fair-weather follower
Perhaps best-known as the man with the Cinderella story who catapulted the St. Louis Rams to a win in Super Bowl XXXIV, Arizona Cardinals quarterback Kurt Warner is also ...
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December 14th, 2006
How I learned to love Hanukkah
by celebrating Christmas
My family has a problem with presents. They make us nervous. Because of some inexplicable guilt or money-related anxiety, receiving gifts makes us feel uncomfortable and ...
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December 13th, 2006
Ten Tips for finally Making the Holidays Happy
The catalogs and television commercials are full of smiling families greeting each other with holiday joy- gleeful reunions full of peace and goodwill. What they don't show is the ...
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December 11th, 2006
A young journalist's reflections on a nation of contrasts and contradictions
As Cambodians visited temples and gave alms on their ancient day of the dead in September 2004, I was holding a diaperless newborn.
I had been working for a newspaper ...
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December 7th, 2006
All I want for Christmas
I don't really know what I want for Christmas.
Sure, I want to have my Christmas cards done by my traditional (but never-heeded) deadline of December 10th. I'd like ...
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December 4th, 2006
The Bad News About Unwed Mothers
Keisha Castle-Hughes, the 16-year-old unmarried actress who plays the Virgin Mary in the new movie, The Nativity Story, is pregnant by her 19-year-old boyfriend. Last week CNN could ...
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