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Negin Farsad opens her recently published memoir, How to Make White People Laugh, by announcing that she is an "Iranian-American Muslim female comedian-slash-filmmaker," and also a self-professed "honey mustard enthusiast." She declares that like most comedians, she "has a master's degree in public
Massachusetts
BOSTON – Across the Charles River from the seat of Bay State power sits the city of Cambridge, the intellectual heart of the commonwealth and sometimes known as the Peoples Republic. So when the Cambridge City Council formally declared Christopher Columbus as a sort of historical persona non grata Monday, it
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CANTON, Mass. (AP) — The mental competency of media mogul Sumner Redstone is at the center of a battle to be heard in a Massachusetts courtroom as Viacom's embattled chief executive seeks to be restored as a director and trustee to entities that control Viacom Inc. and CBS Corp.
public health
Warning: This article contains spoilers BOSTON – This summer's romance flick "Me Before You" has a dark twist that has some calling for its targeted audience to boycott the Warner Bros. film.
music
ROME (AP) — Oscar-winning composer Ennio Morricone is back on his feet after canceling a string of concerts because of two collapsed vertebrae that raised questions about the continued prodigious output of the 87-year-old music legend. Morricone, whose memorable scores to "The Mission," "Cinema Paradiso" and other
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Any person, moderately informed on a topic of current interest, will have experienced the Brandolini law, which can be paraphrased as: the amount of energy necessary to refute a false claim is an order of magnitude bigger than what it took to produce it. And if that individual happened to
Democrats
Does America need a moral facelift? Many Republicans say yes. And so do a lot of Democrats, though fewer than in previous years, according to a recent survey. A large majority of Americans – 73 percent – said the country's moral values are sliding, according to a Gallup poll released
Europe
PARIS (AP) — The rising waters of the Seine overflowed riverbanks, roads and rail tracks across Paris on Thursday, forcing authorities at the Louvre to do something they have not done in generations: hurriedly move precious artworks to higher ground. Water levels at the famous river that winds through the French
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