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This being Good Friday, a good story, but one that has a sad ending. I want to tell you about my friend Ellen. She loves Easter. Loves everything about Easter. Coloring the eggs with her grandkids. Wearing crazy Easter bonnets. Yeah, she loves them. Loves dressing up. And cooking a …

Hidden agendas and the peace protesters. Over the past three weeks, we’ve interviewed a number of peace advocates, including Phil Donahue and a member of the Quakers. And I was very interested in what they had to say, because I see the issue in very stark terms. There’s no question, …

Last week’s column, “Asbestos Could Have Saved WTC Lives,” produced tremendous and polarized reader response. Most readers appreciated the article for pointing out that overreaction to the health risks of asbestos may have hastened the collapse of the World Trade Center towers thereby preventing many from escape. Other readers offered …

MODESTO, Calif. – By all appearances, it’s business as usual at Congressman Gary Condit’s district office in Modesto, Calif. However, some here wonder how long his name will stay on the door. “You can’t have a scandal like this and expect to win re-election,” said Jim DeMartini, the Republican Committee …

I’d like to pass along a lesson that I’ve learned. When I was growing up, my father used to say, “Don’t be paranoid. People are out to get you.” I always wondered what he meant by that. Seriously, I think most workers in this country are paranoid, very paranoid. And …

NEW YORK – If the post-Sept. 11 world seems stocked with supervillains like Usama bin Laden and the anthrax mailer, then the forces of good need all the sophisticated machinery they can muster. Enter the SmarTruck, the U.S. Army’s answer to the Batmobile, James Bond’s BMWand David Hasselhoff’s talking car, …

The headlines are going to read “Billy Crystal Hits a Home Run.” Or a grand slam. And they’re all deserved. When HBO airs Crystal’s movie, 61*, this weekend you will see that there was a time, 40 years ago, when people were fighting over asterisks as if they were chads. …

Washington, D.C. – Rep. Gary Condit “broke off his close friendship” with missing intern Chandra Levy only two days before she disappeared, the congressman told investigators, according to Fox News Channel police sources. Condit, D-Calif.,provided the new details about his relationship with Levy in a second, hour-long interview with police …

Soderbergh Wants His Own Memento | New York Magazine Gets It Wrong — Again Soderbergh Wants His Own Memento Just because we’ve retreated from our position at the beautiful Shadow Ridge Ski Lodge — that doesn’t mean there’s no news from Sundance. First up: Memento, which will be released on …

Do you want to know my crackpot theory on James Jeffords and why I think he’s had enough of the Grand Old Party? It has nothing to do with this budget mess. And nothing to do with differences with the White House on the tax cut. Or with environmental issues …