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Totally hooked by classics like The Age of Innocence and The House of Mirth, we already knew literary master Edith Wharton had substance. The first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize, Wharton nailed the hypocrisy of upper class conventionality with her scathing portraits of the turn-of-the-century New York society into which she was born as…
“Smile Pinki” won the 2008 Academy Award for Best Documentary Short, simply but powerfully bringing to life the devastation of the millions of children suffering from cleft palates and lips – and the amazingly easy way these kids are being helped. It takes only 45 minutes and $250 to perform surgery that fixes the cleft…
Being a woman in Afghanistan is hard enough. Now imagine being a woman running for president there. That’s the challenge Dr. Massouda Jalal faced in Afghanistan’s first democratic election ever – and, although she didn’t win, she did come in sixth out of seventeen candidates, opening a lot of people’s eyes and becoming a role…
Forget the history books. The best way to understand the true culture of a country is to listen to its citizens. In HISTORY’s amazing “The People Speak,” America’s rich past is brought to life through speeches, letters and music presented by today’s most talented voices and paying homage to ordinary citizens whose words and actions…
We read “Breath, Eyes, Memory” back in 1998 when Oprah picked it for her book club, and we’re thinking it’s time to re-read this harrowing story of Sophie Caco, a young Haitian girl who is forced to leave her home to live in New York with a mother whom she barely remembers. Although we don’t…
Americans have generously donated millions of dollars to help the victims of the Haiti earthquake yet a recent article in the Huffington Post revealed that some of that money would be going to the credit card companies who shockingly take a percentage for themselves. Thanks to that article, the major credit card companies have waived…
These are our favorites: the ones that entertained us the most, not necessarily the ones we think will win Academy Awards! 1. Up In The Air. The smartest and most original movie of the year, with perfect performances by George Clooney, Vera Farmiga and Anna Kendrick. 2. It’s Complicated. We want to live in a…
My reading list grows longer by the day! Here are half a dozen of the ones we’re especially excited about: Little Bee by Chris Cleave. There’s quite a lot of buzz about this novel which is narrated by a young Nigerian refugee. The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin. I’m hooked by the subtitle, “Or,…
