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Dear Amy: Our large extended family has a holiday gift exchange among all the cousins under age 18. Everyone e-mails ideas for what their kids would like, which is very helpful. I searched for what was on one 6-year-old's list, going to several stores that carried those brands, only to find they...

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Hippo, Hurray!

Good gnus, Sandra Boynton fans! The popular author/songwriter/illustrator has released her fourth CD/book.

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Meet Sandra Boynton

Favorite color: Sapphire blue. "I just like the way it sounds."

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In Picking The Victors, Media Get Another Drubbing

Tom Brokaw, like virtually everyone on television, went on the air Tuesday night expecting Hillary Clinton to get whipped in New Hampshire.

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Hoping to Soak Up Publicity With Some Absorbent Swag

Here's what Tammy Cheskis, a small-business owner from Anne Arundel County, is doing tomorrow: She's going to set up her wares in a hotel ballroom in L.A. Then stupendously well paid Hollywood stars will come to look. And then Cheskis is going to give her goods to them -- for free! Just because t...

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All Together Now: Shed Those Needles

Suddenly, there are Christmas trees lining 11th Street NW and the holidays are over. Yesterday afternoon there was just the one on this stretch in Columbia Heights, a Douglas fir in front of a brick rowhouse, upright in a metal tree stand, looking reproachful.

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A Deadly Web of Deceit

DARDENNE PRAIRIE, Mo. Megan Meier was buried in the polka-dot dress she planned to wear for her 14th birthday. She had handed out the invitations to her party the day she died. Her eighth-grade classmates attended her funeral, instead, heads bowed and hands clasped as her casket was loaded into t...

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Generation Y: Ready to Rock the 2008 Election

Waiting to hear Barack Obama speak under the twinkling chandeliers of the old Palace Theatre in Manchester, N.H., Nina Fuentes, 21, explained her draw to the presidential process: "They say young people are apathetic. Well, he's bringing us into the process. He's offering inspiration and hope tha...

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VH1's 'Celebrity Rehab' Could Become a Habit

Given that VH1's lineup is littered with reality shows about faded stars who make fools of themselves for our guilty-pleasure enjoyment, it would seem easy to toss the network's new series "Celebrity Rehab" into that same trash bin.

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American Century's Aim Is True in 'Cops'

Gunfire. Cigarette smoking. Double helpings of apple pie. All sorts of insalubrious activity percolates in the diner setting of "Cops," Terry Curtis Fox's muscular 1976 drama.

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