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When a friend of mine became a partner at a large brokerage house, I asked him if his newfound dough had bought him happiness. “No,” he said. “But it makes for one hell of a down payment!” I thought about him after reading an interesting, but very sad, front-page item …

I would personally love to take credit for a movie theater chain stopping this nonsense of listing false starting times for flicks. I’ve made this a kind of cause celeb for years on this show. But in reality, the credit goes to you. Like me, you were ticked off when …

And now the most compelling two minutes in television, the latest from the political grapevine: Miss the Grapevine? Watch it! A Lott of Hypocrisy Around?One byproduct of the Trent Lott case is that politicians who have condemned Lott are being reminded of some of their own off-the-cuff ethnic comments. Massachusetts …

BAGHDAD – Iraq’s president said Tuesday he will press his government’s case before the United Nations this week to have the country’s remaining multibillion dollar Saddam Hussein-era debts dropped. President Jalal Talabani said he will make the appeal at the General Assembly meeting in New York, which starts Wednesday. With …

HOLDEN, La. – A Louisiana killing spree that left four family members dead, including a 2-year-old boy, marked the bloody culmination of an ongoing domestic dispute between the suspected gunman and his estranged wife, said the father of a woman who survived the shootings. Dennis Carter Sr. shot and killed …

NEW YORK – Well, she sure answered that question. Anyone wondering how serious a threat Kim Clijsters might be at the U.S. Open after a two-year layoff got their answer Sunday, when the 2005 champion at Flushing Meadows toppled none other than No. 3 Venus Williams, 6-0, 0-6, 6-4 to …

He’s feeling hot flashes — and they have nothing to do with desire. Like a woman, his body is letting him know it’s going through “male menopause.” Far from being a myth, this hotly debated experience really does exist. Yet few people know about the condition more formally known as …

CINCINNATI – Police in suburban Cincinnati are searching for two teenage girls they believed robbed a bank. The Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office says a robbery was reported Tuesday afternoon at the First National Bank in Symmes Township. Authorities say the suspects were described as two girls. One was 14 to …

GEORGETOWN, Del. – A Delaware pediatrician accused of sexually abusing possibly more than 100 patients has waived a preliminary court hearing and bond review. Dr. Earl Bradley is charged with more than 30 felonies, including rape. Authorities have accused Bradley of videotaping attacks on some alleged victims, some of whom …

They’re the overlooked viruses: Hepatitis B and C together infect three to five times more Americans than the AIDS virus does, and most don’t know it. In the next 10 years, these two liver-damaging infections will kill about 150,000 people in the U.S. alone, says a new report Monday from …