Where to Turn
By In July 1941, Albert Einstein, ten months a U.S. citizen, wrote Eleanor Roosevelt asking her, as First Lady, to raise with the president the matter of lifting bureaucratic hurdles so that Jewish refugees threatened by Hitler’s final solution could be granted entry into the U.S. “I know of no-one else to whom to turn for help,” he […]
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Mariah Carey Took Her Kids to Go Swim with Sharks
Mariah Carey is never about subtlety. We can always count on the pop diva to go big and glamorous. And on Tuesday, the Queen of Christmas showed that she’s ready to own another holiday. For this year’s Independence Day festivities, Carey took her 6-year-old twins, Moroccan and Monroe, as well as her main squeeze, Bryan Tanaka, to swim with nurse […]
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Meeting Fidel
As a young medical student in Argentina I had been fascinated by Fidel Castro and his rebel combatants and followed with interest their advance from the mountains to the plains to the capital city of Havana . I longed to visit the island but the US blockade made it extremely difficult to travel to Cuba […]
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Just Eight Men Own Same Wealth as Half of Humanity: Report
The private jets of the world’s wealthiest men and women are swarming the Swiss Alps for the annual World Economic Forum (WEF), which begins Monday in Davos, Switzerland, in the midst of an ongoing global inequality crisis. “Across the world, people are being left behind[…] their voices are ignored as governments sing to the tune […]
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Queen Letizia Fabulously Repurposes the Dress She Wore to Meet Michelle Obama Last Summer
Thank you, Queen Letizia of Spain, for verifying that it’s A-OK to wear the same look to more than one special event. On Monday, the royal headed to Malaga, Spain, to attend an event at Cervantes Institute, where she gave Kate Middleton a run for her money in a head-to-toe red look that’s equally elegant […]
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Wallonia Has Shown Us the Way to Stop CETA and TTIP
In just under a week, the citizens of the small Belgian state of Wallonia, who dared to challenge the giants of the global big business world and Brussels by blocking the signing of CETA, have been reigned in to order. Europe and Canada will thus go back to the table for the signing, at least […]
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Hillary and Bill Clinton Finally Watched Wonder Woman
Though Hillary Clinton has pulled back from the public eye after November’s election, she’s still incredibly busy giving speeches, creating a new political organization, and getting ready for the release of her memoir. But she and husband Bill Clinton got out for a much-needed date night this past weekend. On the agenda? Seeing critically acclaimed […]
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1,200 Dead; Up to 41 Million Affected in Asian Flooding
As much of the North American media focuses on the ongoing unprecedented flooding and relief efforts in Texas and now potentially Louisiana, another tragedy is unfolding, which is going largely unreported, in Asia. Whereas the death toll in Texas stands at 20, the estimated death toll in South Asia is estimated at 1,200 after weeks […]
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Catherine Zeta-Jones Is Blessing Us with Her Own QVC Home Collection
Would you trust Catherine Zeta-Jones to design your living room? Picture it now: a fresh bouquet of roses here, plush pillows with an endless thread-count there. Perhaps there’d be a bar cart, because why not? The far-fetched idea is meeting reality this fall. The actress has teamed up with QVC to design and launch Casa […]
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Maria Menounos Went to the Mall Following Her Brain Surgery
Actress and TV host Maria Menounos had brain surgery last month to remove a tumor, and she’s already been spotted out and about again. Menounos stepped out with her fiancé Keven Undergaro on Monday in Los Angeles for a quick trip to the mall. But in a sweet Instagram video, Undergaro clarified that they weren’t […]
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