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(NEW YORK) -- Officials at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in Upper Manhattan say they are determined that it will be "business as usual" for previously sc

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- Les Paul -- a seminal figure in jazz, pop, country and rock music -- has lost the use of most of his fingers and both of his thumbs due to arthritis, so the 86-

HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- NBC will raise the ante -- and the nightie -- in its 50-year battle for ratings superiority by playing the sex card on TV's biggest show: the Super Bowl.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- Christians in the United States are in serious trouble because most no longer heed Jesus' Great Commission, Diane Knippers, President of the Washington-based In

HEPBURN IS PARTYGOING 'LADY IN RED'

'MOULIN ROUGE' SCORES AGAIN

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- Here is a list of the nominees for the 2001 Critics' Choice Awards, announced in Los Angeles on Tuesday by the Broadcast Film Critics Association.

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- Hollywood's A-list -- largely absent from the end-of-year movie awards announced so far this awards season -- had a stronger showing Tuesday when the Broadcast

WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- "I'm just glad we do not have an organized hate group here," said Sheriff Reuel A. Todd of Oswego County, N.Y., Tuesday, after discovering that a fire that dest

Today is Dec. 24.

OZONE PARK,QUEENS, N.Y., Dec. 18 (UPI) -- It's a full hour before post time, and I'm alone by the Aqueduct paddock on a chilly gray New York morning. A blanket of fog hangs over the infield lagoons, the

NEW YORK, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- British playwright Michael Frayn, whose "Copenhagen" won a Tony Award for best play last year, has dusted off his most popular farce, "Noises Off," for an all-s

You don't need Latin blood flowing through your veins to play Latin jazz well, as many mainstream players have shown through the years. Late trumpeter Dizzy Gil

SAN DIEGO, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- Everyone has a dream: to sail around the globe, to go cross-country on a motorcycle or to climb every mountain. In 1998, Edward A. Gargan decided to pursue his

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