Category: people

The President wrote a personal letter to the professor this week apologizing for his “off-the-cuff remarks” — a mea culpa that Rubio thinks is “pathetic.”

“Considered one of Canada’s finest writers of short fiction, Gallant is known for collections such as Montreal Stories, Going Ashore and 1981’s Home Truths, which earned her a Governor General’s Literary Award.”

Randy Gener had surgery at St. Luke’s Roosevelt Hospital for a fractured skull and swelling in his brain, his sister told the Journal. He was awake by Sunday afternoon, but his speech made no sense, she said. “My understanding is the road for recovery is going to be very long.”

“Short on both style and speed, she finished a distant last of 67 racers who completed the giant slalom. Her time of 3 minutes, 26.97 seconds over two runs was 50.1 seconds slower than the new Olympic champion, Tina Maze of Slovenia. But she was just thrilled to have taken part.”

“Ten people were arrested, including Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina, the Pussy Riot duo who were released from prison in December, as well as local activists and journalists.”

“What I did NOT expect is that THE MAN HIMSELF would write me an apology. So now I’m totally guilty about wasting his time.”

“His name is barely known in households outside the media elites of New York and California. Yet Michaels has enjoyed a career so wildly successful as to see him named ‘comedy’s most important man ever’ by The Hollywood Reporter.”

“Sid Caesar is a mysterious and com­plex man who seems to have been sin­gled out by the gods to set two all-time records, one of dubious and unenviable distinction: to have set the high-water-mark for sustained comic brilliance over a long period of years, and to have in­gested enough booze and pills to kill the Lippizaner stallions.”

“Chopin’s heart remains an object of fascination and dispute. In 2008, a team of scholars asked for permission to subject it to a DNA analysis, in order to test a theory that Chopin died not of tuberculosis, as was long believed, but of cystic fibrosis.”

“‘I looked down and my boobies were showing coast to cast,’ Saint said, laughing. ‘I just kept in the scene and slid under the water. What else could I do? It was live television.'”