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by Jessica Goldstein Posted on January 30, 2015 at 12:30 pm Updated: January 30, 2015 at 3:11 pm “Acclaimed Novelist Sells 30 Million Books, Is Remembered For Her Physical Appearance In Obituary” Colleen McCullough, 1977. CREDIT: AP Colleen McCullough wrote 25 novels. Her The Thorn Birds sold 30 million copies worldwide for $1.9 million, then a…
If you’re one of the many Americans who couldn’t care less which group of grown men is better at surprise bear hugs and rolling in the grass, Dish DVR is granting you a big Super Bowl surprise with Reverse AutoHop. Now, you can cut out all that garbage footballfrom this year’s Super Bowl, and gorge…
As Verizon inches towards the end of its long-promised FiOS expansion, we can finally get a look at all the places these heavily trumpeted fiber cables have actually ended up. Behold the final(ish) Verizon FiOS Fiber map. It’s bleak as hell. The map itself comes from Fiber For All (you can see the full interactive…
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a state memorial ceremony for late Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon on January 29, 2015. (Gil Cohen Magen/AFP/Getty Images) The political ramifications are clear: House Speaker John Boehner and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made a colossal mistake by conspiring behind President Obama’s back, and the move has ricocheted…
I’m no stranger to strict dress codes; I grew up in a small Alabama town and went to a small religious school, where girls were not allowed to wear shorts, tank tops, or anything other than a dress on Wednesdays . It seemed normal at the time and the school has long since abandoned its “girls can’t wear shorts”…
Photo After having a group photo, Lori Levine and Jan van Arsdale walk back to the ABC Kitchen dining hall for their reception. Credit Danny Kim for The New York Times close shareTools When Lori Levine goes out for a night on the town, she is often in the company of famous men like George…
New Yorkers don’t really pay celebrities much heed unless they are shoving themselves in our face , or chasing us around Times Square, or inadvertently manspreading. But every once in a while, we come across a celebrity so chill that we must pause to praise them. And there is certainly no more impressive celebrity than…
HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. — Their children have been sent home from school. Their families are barred from birthday parties and neighborhood play dates. Online, people call them negligent and criminal. And as officials in 14 states grapple to contain a spreading measles outbreak that began near here at Disneyland, the parents at the heart of…
gallery js end gallery js start of gallery code Firefighters are battling a four-alarm fire at a warehouse in Brooklyn this morning. Update 10:45 a.m.: The fire is now a five-alarm fire. Update 12:23 p.m.: The FDNY just called a sixth alarm. According to the FDNY, they got a call at 6:28 a.m. about a…
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has ruled out cancelling any of Greece’s debt, saying banks and creditors have already made substantial cuts. But Mrs Merkel told the Die Welt newspaper she still wanted Greece to stay in the eurozone. Greece’s left-wing Syriza party won last weekend’s election with a pledge to have half the debt written…