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Questions You Wanted to Ask About LeBron
Thank freakin’ goodness, sports fans. We can now return to our regularly scheduled obsessions. After years of speculation, weeks of anticipation and several days of feverish, obsessive anxiety, LeBron James announced on what amounted to an infomercial about him that he will join the Miami Heat next season. He will join guard Dwyane Wade and…
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Your Take: Seeing Africa With Different Eyes
As I prepare to travel to South Africa to attend the 19th FIFA World Cup event, I am reminded of the incomparable power of sports. Perhaps it is because I am a politician that I am so acutely aware of the fact that through international competitive sports we as a global community have managed to…
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Atlanta and the Powers That Be
When I moved from Los Angeles to Atlanta in 1994, a good friend and colleague told me that I would love the city. ”You’re going to love it here,” he said. ”Just remember one thing. When you leave [the city limits of] Atlanta, you’re in Georgia.” He was right on both counts. I did love…
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Dominican Hair Salon Story Recycled
The blogosphere is all a-buzz about the Wall Street Journal story yesterday that reported Dominican hair salons were taking a big bite out of the black hair care business. CAPITOL HEIGHTS, Md.—Delshawn Rollins once trusted only fellow African-Americans with the delicate task of styling and straightening her tightly curled brown hair. But that meant enduring…
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Twitter Makes Bad TV Awesome
It used to be when you watched something awful, you had to wait to clown it to your friends. At best, you could only talk to one pal at a time. With Twitter, now bad TV is a free-for-all. David Carr of The New York Times writes Today, the peanut gallery, digitally enabled by social…
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Marion Jones' WNBA Comeback
Former track star Marion Jones – who, judging by news accounts, added “Disgraced” to her legal name – made a shocking return to public life recently, signing with the WNBA’s appropriately-named Tulsa Shock. The 34-year-old mother of three, whose youngest child is just eight months old, hasn’t played competitive basketball since 1997, when she was…
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Marion Jones Returns to the Hardwood after Roughly 13,000 Years
Marion Jones will suit up for the first time since 1997 for the Tulsa Shock The WNBA’s Tulsa Shock will hold a news conference Wednesday at 11 a.m. ET to announce the signing of former track star Marion Jones. Jones worked out for Shock coach Nolan Richardson last Saturday. Jones was stripped of five medals…
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No Surprises at the Oscars
“Did I really earn this or did I just wear you all down?” Sandra Bullock’s first words as she accepted the Academy Award for best actress for her starring role in The Blind Side could have just as easily described the telecast that was “so long Avatar now takes place in the past.” Early favorites…
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Why Mitt Romney Is Like Barack Obama
When President Barack Obama and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney square off at the debate podium in the fall of 2012, it might be harder than you think to tell the two of them apart. They’re both Harvard lawyers. They’re both millionaires and devoted family men. As a college student, Romney completed a requisite Mormon…
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When Stress = Stress Eating
I woke up this morning, slowly. I’d stayed up until the wee hours, and didn’t want to get less than seven hours of sleep. I ended up with only five. Couldn’t relax because I was anticipating a stress-filled day. For me, stress equals stress eating. Doritos, pretzels, homemade caramel corn – things that crunch. My…