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Bryce Harper: Baseball’s Next Big Star or Future Flameout?
Our sports prodigies — those phenoms touted to be the next Michael Jordan, Willie Mays, Joe Montana or whomever — often fail, spectacularly. In the 1980s, Todd Marinovich’s father engineered his son to be the second coming of Montana
U.S. Air Force Considers B-1 Bomber Fleet’s Retirement
Nixon launched it, Carter killed it and Reagan resurrected it. In its infancy, the Air Force’s B-1 bomber was a quick and dirty military metaphor — Republicans wanted to buy weapons to defend the nation from the Soviet Union, and Democrats didn’t.
Cameron Diaz in Bad Teacher: What’s Her Motivation?
Bridesmaids hit theaters six weeks ago, igniting a flurry of recognition, however late and daft, that women are indeed funny.
Patriot Act Debate: Is the FBI Collecting Your Phone Data?
The U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee is weighing fresh concern about the sweeping nature of domestic spying using one controversial section of the Patriot Act
Missing Moon Dust Is Found at Auction House
It was one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind, and a lot of people wanted a piece of it.
Claudio Del Vecchio: The Man Who Brought Back the Golden Fleece
Soon after buying Brooks Brothers in late 2001, Claudio Del Vecchio took a trip to the warehouse that keeps the company’s archives. When a business has been around since 1818, you wind up with a lot of history—especially when you’re talking about the retailer that sold Abraham Lincoln the overcoat he wore to Ford’s Theatre, F.D.R.
Foreign News: La Chatte
On a cold rainy day last week, curious Parisians packed a dingy courtroom in the Palais de Justice to hear a red-robed judge pronounce sentence on Mathilde Carre. She was a pert, petite woman with bangs —the very picture of a Parisian gamine
Lack of Sleep Linked to Heart Problems
No one likes to walk into work after just a few fitful hours of sleep. But now there’s evidence that not getting enough sleep may have more serious consequences than dark circles under your eyes the next morning
People: Aug. 24, 1962
In New York County Surrogate's Court, the last will and testament of Marilyn Monroe was filed for probate, showing that for all her troubled personal life, her business affairs seemed in extraordinarily good order. Unencumbered by the debts, tax claims and pending lawsuits so common to Hollywood's money minters, the value of her estate was listed “in excess of $500,000,” a legalism often meaning much more.