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| Maggie Van Ostrand's columns and articles cover more topics than Washington has lobbyists. Each is listed below, with a descriptive blurb. We don't know what a blurb is, but Maggie thinks they may be useful here. |
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A History of Mexico in 2000 Words
Taken with a grain of salt, this mixing of time and space history of Mexico makes it easy for students to understand why they're eating tacos instead of bon bons.
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CSI and the Undead
Lights, Camera, Non-Action: How actors are dying to play corpses on prime time TV
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Dead Men Don't Talk, But Dead Women Do
Halloween is the time to celebrate the dead people we knew, and fear the fictional ghosts, goblins and ghoulies like Frankenstein, Dracula, and George W. Bush.
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Turning Into Mom
I love my mother but in all honesty, she drove us kids straight to the rubber Ramada. She didn't have to talk either. Equipped with an inexhaustible supply of looks for every occasion, she could make us feel guilty quicker than Joan Crawford could grab a wire hanger. She said she'd give up using guilt when it didn't work anymore.
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Movies
"Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first woman she meets and then teams up with three complete strangers to kill again." That's a movie review from a Marin County, California, newspaper. The movie it described was "The Wizard of Oz."
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Same-Sex Marriage?
Not enough attention is being given to marriages much more interesting and envelope-pushing than same-sex wedlock. I'm talking about a different commitment, one deserving of full-frontal media coverage; I refer of course to different-species marriage.
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When Money Talks, Martha Listens
By the year 2009, consumer media spending is predicted to pass $1 trillion dollars -- that's almost as much as the pork in Congress' 2005 legislation. And who's going to get a large chunk of that change? Martha Stewart, that's who.
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Looking for Charley
My friend Charley likes to sit in and play piano at his neighborhood jazz joint. His house is a few blocks from the 17th Street levee, right there by beautiful Lake Pontchartrain. Charley wasn't born in New Orleans, but there's no place else on earth he'd rather live.
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Paparazzi
Unlike Britney, Reese and Scarlett, paparazzi do not follow me about causing me to hit a car with a mother and her two daughters in it, get shot in the leg by one of my bodyguards, or chase me from the gym to my home. Perhaps that's merely because I am not a blonde. Or perhaps it's because I've suffered something much more frightening than paparazzi.
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Three
Three is the most important number of all time, for kings and pigs, for Aristotle and Seinfeld.
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