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Dear Carolyn: I wish people would stop suggesting that spending a day other than Thanksgiving or Christmas Day with family is going to miraculously make everyone happy. If there is already an issue, then I SERIOUSLY doubt that anyone concerned is going to be adult enough to spend the holiday on an...

Two historians of antiquity -- one Irish, the other Indian -- are sharing the $1 million Kluge Prize, the Library of Congress is scheduled to announce today.

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LOS ANGELES, Dec. 2 -- Lawyers for Roman Polanski, a fugitive in France for 30 years because of his notorious sex case involving a 13-year-old girl, filed a request Tuesday to dismiss the charge against him, alleging prosecutorial and judicial misconduct.

The new reality series "Secret Millionaire" (Channel 5 at 8) features the super-rich discreetly living in some of the country's most impoverished areas, and giving away at least $100,000 of their own money to the most deserving people they meet. First up: Wealthy Louisiana restaurateurs Todd and...

"Glengarry Glen Ross" won the Pulitzer Prize for drama in 1984 -- long before lingo like "commercial paper" and "credit default swaps" became household terms. The current financial crisis, however, highlights the anxiety factor in David Mamet's tale of bellicose, expletive-slinging real estate...

Millions of turkeys died last week -- and one of them starred Rosie O'Donnell.

NEW YORK -- If a show's lengthy list of working titles is any measure of the often arduous, sweat-and-blood effort to get a musical right, then Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman have to be one the most tenacious writing teams in the history of the American theater.

Most kids look forward to a break from school during the holidays. (Time to sleep in and stay up late!) For four girls in the D.C. area, the holidays may mean no school, but they definitely don't mean rest.

· Children who spend a lot of time watching TV, playing video games and surfing the Web are more likely to get fat, start smoking and face other health risks when they get older, researchers said yesterday.