Nicolas Cage wins UN award for humanitarian work
Nicolas Cage has won a U.N. award night for his humanitarian work and has been appointed a goodwill ambassador for the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon presented the act
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Tom Brokaw unhurt in NY highway wreck that kills 1
Former NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw and his wife said they escaped injury in a three-car accident on a New York City highway that killed a 30-year-old woman and injured a mail truck driver Friday aftern
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No shortage of tales in this `Hoffmann' at the Met
Conductor James Levine returned to the Metropolitan Opera after an absence of more than two months to recover from spine surgery to lead the company's new production of Offenbach's "Les Contes d'Hoffm
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Colbert's mock anti-Canada feud spirals on the Web
Stephen Colbert has been called what his mock pundit character would deem a traitorous insult: Canadian. The host of "The Colbert Report" is _ gasp! _ a Canuck, or at least has a Canadian heritage,
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Irish folk pioneer Liam Clancy dies in Cork at 74
Irish balladeer Liam Clancy, last of the Clancy Brothers troupe whose feisty, boozy songs of old Ireland struck a sentimental chord worldwide, died Friday in a Cork hospital. He was 74. Clancy died
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