Doc: My son was in love triangle

Source: The Star Malaysia

KLANG: The father of the medical student who plunged to his death in Penang believed it was due to relationship problems. Dr Ko Chung Beng claimed that his son, Steven Ko Yiu Hing (pic), 24, was dejected after deciding to give up his r ...
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Book World: ‘Istanbul Passage,’ by Joseph Kanon, is a complex spy world

Source: The Washington Post

As a setting for crime fiction, Istanbul offers a peerless set of ingredients: exotic beauty, a long and complex history, a charged location where Europe and Asia dissolve into each other. Also, thanks to its neutrality, the city became ...
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The beauty of an ugly memorial

Source: The Washington Post

The controversy over the design of the Eisenhower Memorial reminds me, unhappily, of the acrimony surrounding the conception and birth of the National World War II Memorial — a process that was just as fraught with pain, compli ...
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Turn Up the Heat and Your Taste Buds

Source: The Epoch Times

Casa Marina's Toes in the Sand. A private dinner served on the shore. (Courtesy of Casa Marina Resort) From cliché to chic, a weekend getaway in Key West and Miami Beach mixes it up like a colorful cocktail. Th ...
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Legendary Hollywood Directors Coming Soon To An Envelope Near You

Source: Original Signal: Movies

If you’ve ever really wanted people who handle your mail to know you’re a film fan, the US Postal Service has the answer. They’ve just created four new stamps featuring four of the greatest directors of all time: John ...
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David Goodis’s ‘Five Noir Novels of the 1940s & 50s’: Dark tales of losers

Source: The Washington Post

If David Goodis (1917-1967) is not a household name, this may be due, in part, to the kind of households he wrote about. His characters tend to live on the wrong side of the tracks, socialize on skid row, and ply such tra ...
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Free Men/Les Hommes Libres

Source: Irish Times

THE LATEST WORK from Le Grand Voyage director Ferroukhi seeks to uncover an untold history of North Africans in France. Set against the Nazi occupation of Paris, the film is in lofty genre company. Spiritually, the ...
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Pizarro: Marian Wright Edelman delivers powerful message at Symposium for Children's Health

Source: The San Jose Mercury News

be easier for people in Manhattan to fly there. Contact Sal Pizarro at spizarro@mercurynews.com or 408-627-0940. Marian Wright Edelman, founder of the Children's Defense Fund, spoke Tuesday at the Symposium for Children's H ...
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Around Town: 'Paper Moon' shines on downtown festival

Source: Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Conservancy's Last Remaining Seats festival that showcases the historic movie palaces on Broadway in downtown L.A. returns this Wednesday with Peter Bogdanovich's 1973 comedy "Paper Moon." The movie, which stars Ryan O'Neal and his ...
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