R Obsession comes flying in Frances Genter
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The speed battle trainer Tim Ritvo hoped would develop to enhance stretch-running R Obsession&#39;s chances in Saturday&#39;s $100,000 Frances Genter Stakes at Calder never materialized.
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The sensuous actress who has taken over the world with not only her beauty and charm but with oodles of talent too.
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In the socialiteâs case, the national obsession with celebrity collided with the issue of the equal application of justice.
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She is watched round the clock by  photographers, chased at high speed and friends fear for her  mental stability.
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PARIS -- Can a woman have a Napoleonic complex? I'm not familiar with Dr. Freud's thoughts on the subject. Nor did Napoleon himself, that militant little dude, leave any guidelines at his opulent tomb that is only a few miles from the Roland Garros tennis parlor.
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Mira Nairâs âThe Namesakeâ conveys a palpable sense of people as living, breathing creatures who are far more complex than their words might indicate.
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She is watched round the clock by photographers, chased at high speed and friends fear for her mental stability.
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Itâs been a bountiful year for the kinds of art finds â or at least the publicizing of them â that make fans of âAntiques Roadshowâ weep with envy.
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The ladies of "Hairspray" are a rarity in fat-phobic Hollywood, whose obsession with willowy women is so strong the idea of a corpulent heroine is almost unheard of.
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When Robert Rodriguez  signed on last week to direct Universal&#39;s &quot;Barbarella,&quot; it  marked a rare instance of a female-led action film getting off  the ground.
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Plot twists in Lauren Groffâs book are certainly intriguing enough to captivate readers. The trouble with âThe Monsters of Templetonâ is that its complications seem nonstop.
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PARIS - It seems that not since Napoleon has France experienced such a cult of the personality. In any case, it is clear today that there is no other French politician who inspires such longings for that megalomaniacal
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"Clearly Sarkozy is setting the economic agenda"  She's French. She's female. And she is causing quite a stir. Christine Lagarde, the first woman finance minister for a G-8 nation, was rated the best minister in President Nicolas Sarkozy's government last month by one of France's top-selling newspapers. Not bad for a political newcomer who only two years ago was unknown outside legal and business circles, and who is vocally pro-market in a capitalism-wary nation.It hasn't always been this easy.In 1980s Paris, a law firm in the French capital told the young female applicant her sex disqualified her from high office. So Lagarde turned to Chicago-based law firm Baker &amp; McKenzie, where she went on to become the firm's first female director in 1999. Read more
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Beaujolais Nouveau is seeing "la vie en rose."
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A pioneer of scatter art goes back to her hometown with more high-glamour fantasies.
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Opinion Man on the edge of IM insanity
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The world of fashion is one of professional transgression. The industry's lifeblood is shock and outrage; it survives, in its highest form, by virtue of almost hysterical exhibitionism.