36171 results returned for search: "" category ("Other" AND "Lifestyle")
SAN FRANCISCO (Bloomberg) — Jane Stanford wanted the university she and her husband founded to boast a campus as grand as that of Harvard, Yale or Cambridge, with neoclassical buildings similar to those seen in Europe.
In 1902, a centerpiece of that ...
DATE: Mar 20, 2008
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
NEW YORK (AP) — Cosmetics executive Leonard A. Lauder says he will give $131 million to the Whitney Museum of American Art, the largest donation in the New York institution's history.
Lauder, who is also the chairman of the 77-year-old museum, told t...
DATE: Mar 20, 2008
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
Filmgoers at the 11th Bermuda International Film Festival will have a new online opportunity to reflect on, judge and discuss the films — often with the filmmakers — as BIFF has teamed up with B-Side Entertainment to beef up its online offerings.
B-S...
DATE: Mar 20, 2008
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
Dear Annie: I'm planning to marry a wonderful gentleman in a few months. We are both in our 50s and extremely happy. We have been involved in a long-distance relationship for nearly two years.
I have met most of "Cal's" family and think they are quit...
DATE: Mar 20, 2008
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Even in death Arthur C. Clarke would not compromise his vision.
The famed science fiction writer, who once denigrated religion as "a necessary evil in the childhood of our particular species," left written instructions that ...
DATE: Mar 20, 2008
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — A living-room conversation among musicians Lou Reed, Laurie Anderson and Antony resulted in a high-octane benefit concert last night at St. Ann's Warehouse in Brooklyn to protest the war in Iraq, about to enter its sixth year.
...
DATE: Mar 20, 2008
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
The tap dancing producer Mitchelle (Live Wires) Trott is at it again for a tenth time with another variety show over the busy Easter weekend.
"Bless the Almighty - Some More" is set to be a sensation with performances ranging from dance and singing t...
DATE: Mar 20, 2008
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
NEW YORK (AP) — Former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer's call girl scandal prompted ABC News to give the go-ahead to a two-hour prime-time special on prostitution that includes Diane Sawyer's visit to a legal brothel in Nevada.
The "20/20" special, which...
DATE: Mar 20, 2008
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
NEW YORK (AP) — Halle Berry's newborn daughter is named Nahla Ariela Aubry, her publicist Meredith O'Sullivan told The Associated Press.
Nahla was born Sunday to Berry, 41, and her beau, model Gabriel Aubry, 32. It's Berry's first child.
The couple m...
DATE: Mar 20, 2008
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A gene that helps the brain make connections may underlie a significant number of autism cases, researchers in the United States reported on Tuesday.
Disruptions in the gene, called contactin 4, stop the gene from working prope...
DATE: Mar 20, 2008
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
