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If there is one thing made clear by Furious Love a 438-page ode to the epic liaison between Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton it is that we in the 21st century are getting woefully ripped off when it comes to celebrity-couple dish. Consider that when these two supernovas first collided on a set, schedules and budgets... | [] | If there is one thing made clear by Furious Love a 438-page ode to the epic liaison between Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton it is that we in the 21st century are getting woefully ripped off when it comes to celebrity-couple dish. | [] | entertainment | books | 2011-03-01T18:01:00Z | 2011-03-01T18:01:00Z | 2011-03-01T18:01:00Z | Hollywood | 2,469,919 | https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/books/2013/06/28/furious-love-thy-name-is-burton-taylor/2469919/ | |
Cleopatra may have died more than 2,000 years ago, but the Egyptian queen still has the sizzle, as Stacy Schiff's delectable new biography proves. Little wonder Angelina Jolie has been tapped for the plum starring role in the film adaptation of Schiff's love-on-the-Nile epic. But the true story, as told by her new biog... | [] | Cleopatra may have died more than 2,000 years ago, but the Egyptian queen still has the sizzle, as Stacy Schiff's delectable new biography proves. Little wonder Angelina Jolie has been tapped for the plum starring role in the film adaptation of Schiff's love-on-the-Nile epic.
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All hype, no heft. That's the real story of Amy Chua's memoir/Web sensation, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother. Under the inflammatory headline "Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior," an excerpt in the Wall Street Journal Jan. 8 ignited a firestorm engulfing the Today show, The New York Times , NPR and every media outlet and... | [] | All hype, no heft. That's the real story of Amy Chua's memoir/Web sensation, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother. | [] | entertainment | books | 2011-03-01T15:44:00Z | 2011-03-01T15:44:00Z | 2011-03-01T15:44:00Z | Salvation Army | 2,469,727 | https://eu.usatoday.com/story/life/books/2013/06/28/battle-hymn-of-the-tiger-mother-is-actually-rather-tame/2469727/ | |
UFC 126 main-card results: Champ Silva defends title with front-kick KO of Belfort | LAS VEGAS – The stakes were huge, the anticipation was unmatched, and the rivalry never so bitter or heated. Leave it to middleweight champion Anderson Silva to save one of his most impressive performances for just such a scenario. The UFC's long-reigning middleweight champion used a slick front-kick knockdown to set u... | [] | LAS VEGAS – The stakes were huge, the anticipation was unmatched, and the rivalry never so bitter or heated. Leave it to middleweight champion Anderson Silva to save one of his most impressive performances for just s | [
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Hall undeterred by grind of Hooters Tour life | ORLANDO, Fla. – Kevin Hall wanted to clarify his response, so he whirled around the laptop and continued to pound away on the keyboard. Rat-tat-tat-tat. Rat-tat-tat. Rat-tat-tat-tat-tat. A few moments later, he reviewed his answer and nodded. Content, Hall pushed the laptop back across the table. “I’m deaf. It’s a quie... | [] | ORLANDO, Fla. – Kevin Hall wanted to clarify his response, so he whirled around the laptop and continued to pound away on the keyboard. Rat-tat-tat-tat. Rat-tat-tat. Rat-tat-tat-tat-tat. A few moments later, he reviewed his answer and nodded. Content, Hall pushed… | [
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New UFC champion Jose Aldo officially awarded title belt | AUBURN HILLS, Mich. – Meet Jose Aldo (18-1 MMA, 8-0 WEC), the UFC's first-ever featherweight champion. The 24-year-old Brazilian, who closed out his WEC run with two successful defenses of that promotion's 145-pound belt, was granted the UFC's first-ever featherweight championship when Zuffa LLC elected to merge the UF... | [] | AUBURN HILLS, Mich. – Meet Jose Aldo (18-1 MMA, 8-0 WEC), the UFC's first-ever featherweight champion. The 24-year-old Brazilian, who closed out his WEC run with two successful defenses of that promotion's 145-pound | [
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Tiger, Elin divorce; will share parenting | Divorced. Single dad. Golf game still to be determined. And so, after nine months of turmoil over his extramarital affairs, now begins the next chapter in the life and times of Tiger Woods. In a hearing that lasted no more than 10 minutes in a Florida judge’s chambers, Woods and his Swedish-born wife officially divorce... | [] | Divorced. Single dad. Golf game still to be determined. And so, after nine months of turmoil over his extramarital affairs, now begins the next chapter in the life and times of Tiger Woods. In a hearing that lasted no more than 10 minutes in a Florida judge’s c | [
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UFC 117 main-card recap: Miracle submission saves champ Anderson Silva | OAKLAND, Calif. – Heading into Saturday's long-awaited and heavily publicized UFC 117 headliner, the MMA world had but one question: Could Chael Sonnen back up his big talk and actually dethrone seemingly unbeatable middleweight champion Anderson Silva. The answer? No. But it took a miracle comeback from Silva, who was... | [] | OAKLAND, Calif. – Heading into Saturday's long-awaited and heavily publicized UFC 117 headliner, the MMA world had but one question: Could Chael Sonnen back up his big talk and actually dethrone seemingly unbeatable middleweight | [
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WEC 48 main card recap: Jose Aldo and Benson Henderson dominate in PPV title fights | SACRAMENTO, Calif. – A famous Cincinnati Reds hurler once said that pitching in Dodger Stadium was like wearing a suit of pork chops in a lion's den. WEC featherweight champion Jose Aldo experienced mixed martial arts' equivalent of that – fighting "The California Kid" Urijah Faber in his hometown – and successfully ta... | [] | SACRAMENTO, Calif. – A famous Cincinnati Reds hurler once said that pitching in Dodger Stadium was like wearing a suit of pork chops in a lion's den. WEC featherweight champion Jose Aldo experienced mixed martial ar | [
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UFC 112 play by play and live results | Welcome to MMAjunkie.com's live coverage of today's "UFC 112: Invincible" event. Today's overseas show begins at approximately 10:30 a.m. ET (7:30 a.m. PT) for the un-aired preliminary card and 1 p.m. ET for the pay-per-view main card. Although UFC 112 also airs in its normal 10 p.m. ET timeslot via delay, MMAjunkie.co... | [] | Welcome to MMAjunkie.com's live coverage of today's "UFC 112: Invincible" event. Today's overseas show begins at approximately 10:30 a.m. ET (7:30 a.m. PT) for the un-aired preliminary card and 1 p.m. ET for the pay-per-v | [
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Within the history of modern culture, it is rare to find an artistic genius who is also a universally popular entertainer. The two skill sets required are not always compatible: Beethoven, Brando and Martha Graham couldn't pull off both. Nor could Elvis. But Louis Armstrong did. He merged those concepts seamlessly duri... | [] | Teachout provides ample evidence of Armstrong's late-life assertion that "My whole life, my whole soul, my whole spirit is to blooow that hooorn." | [] | entertainment | books | 2009-12-28T17:06:00Z | 2009-12-28T17:06:00Z | 2009-12-28T17:06:00Z | Louis Armstrong | 2,469,443 | https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/books/2013/06/28/what-a-wonderfully-definitive-biography-of-louis-armstrong/2469443/ | |
You could consider George Carlin's Last Words, a 20-some-years-in-the-making memoir he called a "sortabiography," as the comic genius's answer to Michael Jackson's This Is It. Told in his own voice and based mainly on taped interviews with humorist and co-author Tony Hendra, this posthumous work by the cranky provocate... | [] | You could consider George Carlin's Last Words, a 20-some-years-in-the-making memoir he called a "sortabiography," as the comic genius's answer to Michael Jackson's This Is It. | [] | entertainment | books | 2009-11-10T00:15:00Z | 2009-11-10T00:15:00Z | 2009-11-10T00:15:00Z | Heart attack | 2,469,391 | https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/books/2013/06/28/memoir-last-words-is-pure-george-carlin/2469391/ | |
Dan Chaon's oddly mesmerizing suspense novel isn't so much a whodunit as a whoareyou. In three parallel stories that don't connect until the end, Await Your Reply features contemporary characters reinventing or misrepresenting themselves. All know more about what they're running from than what they're running to. Ryan,... | [] | Dan Chaon's oddly mesmerizing suspense novel isn't so much a whodunit as a whoareyou. | [] | entertainment | books | 2009-09-29T00:24:00Z | 2009-09-29T00:24:00Z | 2009-09-29T00:24:00Z | Ohio | 2,469,319 | https://eu.usatoday.com/story/life/books/2013/06/28/way-through-complex-await-your-reply-is-curiously-smooth/2469319/ | |
No entertainer's journey more acutely reflects the shifts and struggles in race relations through the 20th century than that of Lena Horne. Many black stars were as iconic and, frankly, more talented. But Horne, thanks to a confluence of factors her mixed heritage and light skin color, her ambivalence about and attract... | [] | No entertainer's journey more acutely reflects the shifts and struggles in race relations through the 20th century than that of Lena Horne. | [] | entertainment | books | 2009-08-04T01:17:00Z | 2009-08-04T01:17:00Z | 2009-08-04T01:17:00Z | Hollywood | 2,469,245 | https://eu.usatoday.com/story/life/books/2013/06/28/life-has-never-been-black-and-white-for-lena-horne/2469245/ | |
Jordan Canedy is a lucky boy, if you can call a boy without a father lucky. But most children aren't left a 200-page journal written by their dad. A man-to-man talk of sorts. Not only that, Jordan's mother is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who knows a good story when she sees one. So she builds a book around the j... | [] | Jordan Canedy is a lucky boy, if you can call a boy without a father lucky. But most children aren't left a 200-page journal written by their dad. A man-to-man talk of sorts. | [] | entertainment | books | 2009-01-13T01:03:00Z | 2009-01-13T01:03:00Z | 2009-01-13T01:03:00Z | U.S. Army | 2,468,977 | https://eu.usatoday.com/story/life/books/2013/06/28/journal-gives-fatherly-advice-from-slain-soldier/2468977/ | |
Readers entranced by Azar Nafisi's Reading Lolita in Tehran, her 2003 memoir about literature and intellectual freedom in Iran, will be equally fascinated by her new memoir, Things I've Been Silent About: Memories. Like Reading Lolita, Nafisi's new book is about her beloved homeland and the impact of history, culture a... | [] | Readers entranced by Azar Nafisi's Reading Lolita in Tehran, her 2003 memoir about literature and intellectual freedom in Iran, will be equally fascinated by her new memoir, Things I've Been Silent About: Memories. | [] | entertainment | books | 2009-01-06T02:51:00Z | 2009-01-06T02:51:00Z | 2009-01-06T02:51:00Z | Washington, D.C. | 2,468,963 | https://eu.usatoday.com/story/life/books/2013/06/28/lolita-author-azar-nafisi-breaks-silence-of-her-memories/2468963/ | |
If you are among the legions of Oprah's Book Club followers who recently finished Ken Follett's Pillars of the Earth, you'll probably enjoy Cathedral of the Sea. This epic novel set, like Pillars, in medieval times, follows Arnau Estanyol, who begins life working as a "bastiax," or stone carrier, helping build the chur... | [] | If you are among the legions of Oprah's Book Club followers who recently finished Ken Follett's Pillars of the Earth, you'll probably enjoy Cathedral of the Sea. | [] | entertainment | books | 2008-06-03T01:31:00Z | 2008-06-03T01:31:00Z | 2008-06-03T01:31:00Z | Spain | 2,468,745 | https://ftw.usatoday.com/2016/06/maria-sharapova-two-year-ban-meldonium-business-career-not-over-yet/ | |
Give the bloodied but clearly unbowed James Frey points for unbridled ambition. His truth-challenged memoir A Million Little Pieces may have put Oprah's knickers in a televised twist, but Frey's new novel, Bright Shiny Morning,reveals a massive literary ego in full, flourishing bloom. Unfettered by traditional grammar,... | [] | Give the bloodied but clearly unbowed James Frey points for unbridled ambition. | [] | entertainment | books | 2008-05-15T01:30:00Z | 2008-05-15T01:30:00Z | 2008-05-15T01:30:00Z | Los Angeles | 2,468,721 | https://eu.usatoday.com/story/life/books/2013/06/28/disgraced-author-james-frey-rebounds-with-messy-morning/2468721/ | |
Toby Keith USO tour disrupted by mortar fire | On Thursday night, Keith, 46, was playing at a military base in Kandahar, Afghanistan, when mortar fire disrupted the country hitmaker’s song “Weed with Willie.” The fire sent Keith and most of the 2,500 soldiers in the crowd into nearby shelters. Curt Motley, Keith’s booking agent, who is accompanying the singer-songw... | [] | Oklahoma country music star has encountered mortar fire and a sandstorm over the past few days of his current United Service Organizations tour of the Persian Gulf region.
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Unaccustomed Earth is Jhumpa Lahiri's stunning follow to her 1999 Pulitzer Prize-winning short-story collection Interpreter of Maladies and her 2003 novel, The Namesake. This new collection, like Lahiri's other works, delves deeply and richly into the lives of immigrants. They are uprooted adventurers from India who ar... | [] | Unaccustomed Earth is Jhumpa Lahiri's stunning follow to her 1999 Pulitzer Prize-winning short-story collection Interpreter of Maladies and her 2003 novel, The Namesake. | [] | entertainment | books | 2008-04-03T00:47:00Z | 2008-04-03T00:47:00Z | 2008-04-03T00:47:00Z | New York | 2,468,643 | https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/books/2013/06/28/jhumpa-lahiri-leaves-no-earth-untilled/2468643/ | |
The world might be a better place if everything went to the dogs or to the Labradors. So says The Labrador Pact, British novelist Matt Haig's darkly quirky tale of a noble dog's efforts to save his human family from ruin. Prince, the Lab narrator, begins his story on the day he says will be his last. Animals in this wo... | [] | The world might be a better place if everything went to the dogs or to the Labradors. So says The Labrador Pact, British novelist Matt Haig's darkly quirky tale of a noble dog's efforts to save his human family from ruin. | [] | entertainment | books | 2008-03-13T00:15:00Z | 2008-03-13T00:15:00Z | 2008-03-13T00:15:00Z | Prince | 2,468,613 | https://eu.usatoday.com/story/life/books/2013/06/28/the-labrador-pact-special-dog-has-its-day/2468613/ | |
Our novelists are being stalked like the elusive Chilean sea bass. Right now, somewhere, a Granta Best American Young Novelist is afraid to check her e-mail for fear of being asked to contribute to an anthology about summer camp, losing her virginity or alternative parenting techniques. But just when you're ready to ho... | [] | Curated by Zadie Smith, Other People collects 23 pieces by a who's who of 21st-century geniuses and wunderkinds, from Dave Eggers to Edwidge Danticat. | [] | entertainment | books | 2008-01-23T17:29:00Z | 2008-01-23T17:29:00Z | 2008-01-23T17:29:00Z | New York | 2,468,531 | https://eu.usatoday.com/story/life/books/2013/06/28/imagination-takes-over-the-book-of-other-people/2468531/ | |
Just when you thought you had heard every story there is to tell about World War II, author Diane Ackerman offers us The Zookeeper's Wife, a tale of untold bravery with a whimsical dose of history reminiscent of Noah's Ark. Warsaw was spared no brutality during the war, and the ferocity of the Polish Resistance is lege... | [] | Just when you thought you had heard every story there is to tell about World War II, author Diane Ackerman offers us The Zookeeper's Wife, a tale of untold bravery with a whimsical dose of history reminiscent of Noah's Ark. | [] | entertainment | books | 2007-10-02T00:52:00Z | 2007-10-02T00:52:00Z | 2007-10-02T00:52:00Z | Diane Ackerman | 2,468,359 | http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/books/2013/06/28/in-zookeepers-wife-hope-runs-free/2468359/ | |
Toby Keith brings attention, funds to Ally's House, which aids Oklahomans dealing with pediatric cancer | His fervor for the Norman-based organization is fueled by the memory of an ailing little girl who just wanted to go home. In 2004, Keith helped establish Ally's House, a nonprofit group that helps Oklahoma children with cancer and their families. The charity is named for Allison Webb, the 2-year-old daughter of Scott W... | [] | For Toby Keith, Ally's House is "my charity.” His fervor for the Norman-based organization is fueled by the memory of an ailing little girl who just wanted to go home. In 2004, Keith helped establish… | [
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Remember the Y2K bug? Back when we were partying like it was 1999, some feared that the millennium rollover would cause a crippling computer crisis. Wired networks might think the date was 1900 and shut down. Power outages! Looting! Economic collapse! The apocalyptic scenarios, of course, didn't come true, and now they... | [] | Kevin Shay sets his first novel, The End as I Know It, in 1998, starring a 25-year-old with a case of Y2K fever that's almost Lyndon LaRouche-ish. | [] | entertainment | books | 2006-12-28T01:58:00Z | 2006-12-28T01:58:00Z | 2006-12-28T01:58:00Z | Texas | 2,470,967 | https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/books/2013/06/28/y2k-makes-a-witty-return/2470967/ | |
In Bea Arthur's one-woman Broadway show in 2002, the veteran actress paid homage, sort of, to the late, great choreographer and director Jerome Robbins, with whom she had worked decades before in Fiddler on the Roof. "The man was a genius," Arthur said. "But he really wasn't a very nice person. Actually, he was the onl... | [] | In Somewhere, an extensive, accessible biography, Amanda Vaill offers a flattering, complex portrait of Robbins, whose prolific talent marked some of the 20th century's most compelling work in dance and theater. | [] | entertainment | books | 2006-12-12T02:08:00Z | 2006-12-12T02:08:00Z | 2006-12-12T02:08:00Z | Arthur | 2,470,933 | https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/books/2013/06/28/somewhere-choreographs-the-life-of-jerome-robbins/2470933/ | |
The unsettled international atmosphere terrorism, nuclear proliferation, religious tension, war inevitably makes people reflect on what life would be like after a globe-shattering cataclysm. Nowadays, Mad Max looks less like entertainment and more like a how-to guide on hoarding crucial resources. The wildly admired wr... | [] | The wildly admired writer Cormac McCarthy presents his own post-apocalyptic vision in The Road. | [] | entertainment | books | 2006-09-28T02:37:00Z | 2006-09-28T02:37:00Z | 2006-09-28T02:37:00Z | Cormac McCarthy | 2,470,821 | https://eu.usatoday.com/story/life/books/2013/06/28/all-the-unpretty-forces-unleashed-in-road/2470821/ | |
2006: PGA Championship: Still a big shot | Sergio Garcia returns to another PGA Championhip at Medinah, site of his 1999 blastoff into golf consciousness, with heightened anticipation. He is eager to recapture one of his life’s best moments and buoyed by a tie for fifth place at the British Open, his first good showing at a major in a year. “I’m looking forward... | [] | Sergio Garcia returns to another PGA Championhip at Medinah, site of his 1999 blastoff into golf consciousness, with heightened anticipation. He is eager to recapture one of his life’s best moments and buoyed by a tie for fifth place at the British Open, his first good… | [
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2006: The LPGA’s ‘Miss Personality’ - Marilynn Smith | Marilynn Smith is a lover of words. Indefatigable – a mouthful of an adjective that means incapable of being fatigued – happens to be her favorite. It’s fitting for the LPGA pioneer, who worked tirelessly for decades to get the word out about a group of ladies with a wealth of talent. One of 13 founders of the LPGA in ... | [] | Marilynn Smith is a lover of words. Indefatigable – a mouthful of an adjective that means incapable of being fatigued – happens to be her favorite. It’s fitting for the LPGA pioneer, who worked tirelessly for decades to get the word out about a gro | [
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Viewed through history's rear-view mirror, the Iran hostage crisis of 1979-80 is not such a big deal. Iranian students and others, some of whom we would now call "Islamo-fascists," took 66 American Embassy personnel hostage and held most of them for a terrifying 444 days. All were released, no occupying armies were dep... | [] | Viewed through history's rear-view mirror, the Iran hostage crisis of 1979-80 is not such a big deal. | [] | entertainment | books | 2006-05-11T01:50:00Z | 2006-05-11T01:50:00Z | 2006-05-11T01:50:00Z | United States | 2,467,819 | https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/books/2013/06/28/the-iran-hostage-crisis-revisited/2467819/ | |
Not yet 60, Nathan Glass is "looking for a quiet place to die. Someone recommended Brooklyn." So the narrator of Paul Auster's The Brooklyn Follies returns from the New York suburbs, seeking only solitude and anonymity. He finds neither in what turns into a charming, beguiling story about the terrible beauty of familie... | [] | Not yet 60, Nathan Glass is "looking for a quiet place to die. Someone recommended Brooklyn." So the narrator of Paul Auster's The Brooklyn Follies returns from the New York suburbs, seeking only solitude and anonymity. | [] | entertainment | books | 2006-02-16T01:43:00Z | 2006-02-16T01:43:00Z | 2006-02-16T01:43:00Z | New York | 2,467,713 | https://eu.usatoday.com/story/life/books/2013/06/28/search-for-solitude-takes-detour-in-brooklyn-follies/2467713/ | |
I thought I knew something about the Dust Bowl. I've read John Steinbeck's epic novel The Grapes of Wrath, seen John Ford's classic movie with Henry Fonda in his greatest role and listened to Bruce Springsteen's haunting ode to Tom Joad. But Steinbeck told only part of the story, as Timothy Egan writes in The Worst Har... | [] | The Worst Hard Time is a vivid and gritty piece of forgotten history from the darkest days of the Depression. | [] | entertainment | books | 2006-01-19T01:38:00Z | 2006-01-19T01:38:00Z | 2006-01-19T01:38:00Z | Texas | 2,467,677 | https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/books/2013/06/28/hard-time-dust-and-darkness/2467677/ | |
Grand opening draws crowd in Bricktown Country singer's establishment is a crowd-pleaser. | A soldier bound for Iraq, newlyweds and visiting Iowans were among people who crowded into Toby Keith's I Love This Bar & Grill for Wednesday's grand opening. Lines formed about noon for the 3 p.m. opening and stretched westward throughout the evening. Waitresses brought water, and many patrons opened umbrellas to help... | [] | A soldier bound for Iraq, newlyweds and visiting Iowans were among people who crowded into Toby Keith's I Love This Bar & Grill for Wednesday's grand opening. Lines formed about noon for the 3 p.m. o… | [
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I confess I wasn't looking forward to reading The Survivor: Bill Clinton in the White House by John Harris. I've read Clinton's My Life, Hillary Clinton's Living History and a half-dozen books about the Clintons by critics and admirers alike. I figured I knew more than I wanted to know about the Clintons' political and... | [] | I was delightfully surprised and informed by The Survivor. It's a dispassionate, insightful and balanced assessment of the man and president who inspired the most basic question, even among his aides: "Is this guy for real?" | [] | entertainment | books | 2005-06-02T01:32:00Z | 2005-06-02T01:32:00Z | 2005-06-02T01:32:00Z | Hillary Clinton | 2,467,425 | https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/books/2013/06/28/survivor-gets-inside-clinton/2467425/ | |
2005 Masters: Casper exhibits grace despite dubious day | Augusta, Ga. | There’s no quit in Billy Casper. The 1970 Masters champion had just shot 57 over the back nine at Augusta National – his opening nine Thursday because of a rain-delayed double tee start – then sought refuge at the clubhouse. Three groups slated to start off No. 1 still hadn’t begun their rounds, so it wo... | [] | Augusta, Ga. | There’s no quit in Billy Casper. The 1970 Masters champion had just shot 57 over the back nine at Augusta National – his opening nine Thursday because of a rain-delayed double tee start – then sought refuge at the clubhouse. Three groups… | [
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2005 Masters: Augusta brings out all kinds of emotion | Augusta, Ga. | It was the raw emotion of it all. It was raw emotion that made this Masters a memorable golf tournament and served as a major reminder that golf truly is a reflection of real life. We hear the cliche – “Golf is like life” – and sometimes we laugh or scoff at its simplicity. Still, it’s true. Not only tha... | [] | Augusta, Ga. | It was the raw emotion of it all. It was raw emotion that made this Masters a memorable golf tournament and served as a major reminder that golf truly is a reflection of real life. We hear the cliche – “Golf is like life” – and sometimes we | [
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In 1997, professional celebrity deflator Jerry Oppenheimer whisked together a delectable confection of vitriol, gossip and ugly revelations about that blond Hera of the domestic realm, Martha Stewart, in his Just Desserts. And this was before her stint in the big house. With guilty anticipation, this reader opened Oppe... | [] | With guilty anticipation, this reader opened Oppenheimer's new opus, Front Row, about fashion deity Anna Wintour. | [] | entertainment | books | 2005-02-17T01:49:00Z | 2005-02-17T01:49:00Z | 2005-02-17T01:49:00Z | Barbara Walters | 2,467,307 | http://usatoday.com/story/life/books/2013/06/28/a-front-row-seat-and-dishy/2467307/ | |
The telephone rang, and she knew she was going to die. With the first words of The Queen of the South, Arturo Prez-Reverte hits the ground running in this story of a compelling young Mexican woman. She is the terrified girlfriend of a dead drug runner, who eludes her pursuers and her past to evolve into a legendary nar... | [] | With the first words of The Queen of the South, Arturo Prez-Reverte hits the ground running in this story of a compelling young Mexican woman | [] | entertainment | books | 2004-07-01T00:32:00Z | 2004-07-01T00:32:00Z | 2004-07-01T00:32:00Z | Spain | 2,466,855 | https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/books/2013/06/28/queen-of-the-south-makes-regal-reading/2466855/ | |
Marvin Gaye's life ended 20 years ago when his father shot him on April Fools' Day. But Gaye's musical legend has never stopped growing. Michael Eric Dyson, writer and University of Pennsylvania professor who previously has turned a critical eye to the legendary lives of Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr. and Tupac Shak... | [] | Marvin Gaye's life ended 20 years ago when his father shot him on April Fools' Day. But Gaye's musical legend has never stopped growing. | [] | entertainment | books | 2004-05-13T00:18:00Z | 2004-05-13T00:18:00Z | 2004-05-13T00:18:00Z | Martin Luther King Jr. | 2,466,775 | https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/books/2013/06/28/behind-the-legend-of-marvin-gaye/2466775/ | |
The title of Lynne Truss' witty and instructive journey through the perilous world of punctuation comes from a joke: A panda walks into a cafe. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots into the air. "Why?" the waiter asks. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual. "I'm a panda," ... | [] | Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation was a surprise hit in Britain last year and is No. 8 on USA TODAY's Best-Selling Books list. Either every self-respecting English teacher is buying multiple copies, or punctuation is not yet a hopeless cause. | [] | entertainment | books | 2004-04-27T00:45:00Z | 2004-04-27T00:45:00Z | 2004-04-27T00:45:00Z | China | 2,466,759 | https://eu.usatoday.com/story/life/books/2013/06/28/truss-thrust-punctuation-period/2466759/ | |
In a move heavy with symbolism, Marines help Iraqis topple Saddam statue | BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - U.S. Marines helped Iraqis topple a 40-foot statue of Saddam Hussein in a main square of the capital Wednesday as fear of the Iraqi regime melted away. A dancing crowd tore off the felled statue's head and dragged it by ropes through the streets. U.S. Marines at one point wrapped the statue's head ... | [] | BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - U.S. Marines helped Iraqis topple a 40-foot statue of Saddam Hussein in a main square of the capital Wednesday as fear of the Iraqi regime melted away. A dancing crowd tore off t… | [
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Ryder Cup makes Paul McGinley national hero | On the Emerald Isle, Paul McGinley suddenly is a national hero. All because he had the good fortune to be in the right place at the right time. The place was the 18th hole at The Belfry. The time was 4:54 p.m. local, on the final day of the 34th Ryder Cup Matches. It was then that he holed a 9-foot par putt against Jim... | [] | On the Emerald Isle, Paul McGinley suddenly is a national hero. All because he had the good fortune to be in the right place at the right time. The place was the 18th hole at The Belfry. The time was 4:54 p.m. local, on the final day of the 34th Ryder Cup Matches. It wa | [
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2002 Masters: Analysis: Woods remains golf best front-runner | Augusta, Ga. | How did Tiger Woods win the Masters? The old-fashioned way – he earned it. Consider, as most of the players did, that Woods is golf’s greatest front-runner. Give him a lead, and he’ll give you a shot in the gut. In the final round, after Retief Goosen three-putted the first green for bogey, Woods was ahe... | [] | Augusta, Ga. | How did Tiger Woods win the Masters? The old-fashioned way – he earned it. Consider, as most of the players did, that Woods is golf’s greatest front-runner. Give him a lead, and he’ll give you a shot in the gut. In the final round, after Retief Goos | [
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Ex-Army Ranger gets death in shotgun slayings of 3 children | SHALIMAR -- An Army veteran diagnosed as suffering from Gulf War illness was sentenced to death Tuesday for killing three children with a shotgun. He got life for murdering their mother, his live-in girlfriend. Jeffrey Hutchinson showed no emotion as Circuit Judge G. Robert Barron pronounced sentence, but afterward mad... | [] | SHALIMAR -- An Army veteran diagnosed as suffering from Gulf War illness was sentenced to death Tuesday for killing three children with a shotgun. He got life for murdering their mother, his live-in … | [
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New York Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez will be suspended for the entire 2014 season, as an independent arbitrator upheld the majority of a 211-game suspension Major League Baseball assessed him in August and dealt A-Rod the largest penalty for performance-enhancing drug use in baseball history. Saturday's ruling by Fr... | [
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