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Fast Forward Angelina Jolie Has Double Mastectomy Over ‘Jewish’ Gene Breast Cancer Fear
Hollywood superstar Angelina Jolie has had a double mastectomy to reduce her chances of getting breast cancer and says she hopes her story will inspire other women fighting the life-threatening disease. Jolie wrote in the New York Times on Tuesday the operation has made it easier for her to reassure her six children that she…
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Fast Forward Joyce Brothers, Jewish TV Psychologist and Advice Columnist, Dies at 85
Psychologist Joyce Brothers, who parlayed her 1955 victory on the TV game show “The $64,000 Question” into a nearly six-decade career as a television personality and columnist, died on Monday, her publicist said. She was 85. Brothers died of natural causes in New York, said Sanford Brokaw, her Los Angeles-based spokesman. She began dispensing advice…
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Fast Forward Workers at Seedy Mexico City Bar Charged in Murder of Malcolm X’s Grandson
Authorities in Mexico City have arrested two men on suspicion of the fatal beating of the grandson of U.S. civil rights activist Malcolm X in a bar last week and are looking for at least two more people, Mexico City Attorney General Rodolfo Rios said on Monday. Malcolm Shabazz, who police have said was 29,…
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Fast Forward Palestinian Terrorist in ’68 Hijacking Deported From Canada
After a 25-year legal battle, Canada has finally deported a Palestinian convicted of an attack on an Israeli airliner in 1968, Immigration Minister Jason Kenney said on Monday. Mahmoud Mohammad Issa Mohammad, a former Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine commando, took part in the assault on an El Al jet in Athens that…
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Fast Forward Syrian Rebel Shown on Video Cutting Heart Out of Slain Assad Soldier
A video of a Syrian rebel commander cutting the heart out of a soldier and biting into it is emblematic of a civil war that has rapidly descended into sectarian hatred and revenge killings, Human Rights Watch said on Monday. The New York-based group said an amateur video posted on the Internet on Sunday shows…
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Fast Forward Graham Spanier, Ousted in Scandal, Is Highest Paid Public College Chief
Salaries of presidents of U.S. public universities rose almost 5 percent in the last fiscal year, even as tuition rose and student debt soared, with the median pay package topping $400,000, according to a report released on Sunday. Penn State’s Graham Spanier was the top earner last year at the time he was fired over…
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Fast Forward Grandson of Malcolm X Died Amid Mariachi, Strippers and Sewage in Mexico
Left crumpled in the gutter after an ill-fated visit to a seedy club in a rough part of Mexico City, the grandson of murdered U.S. civil rights leader Malcolm X lay dying engulfed in the stench of sewage and a blaring cacophony of Mariachi music. He was beaten to death early on Thursday morning, police…
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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu and Wife Sara Reverse Course on $127K Plane Bed
Benjamin Netanyahu is changing his mid-air sleeping arrangements after a public flap over a $127,000 custom-built bedroom for the Israeli prime minister and his wife on a flight to London last month. Israel’s Channel 10 television reported the sum was tagged onto the $300,000 cost of chartering an El Al Boeing 767 that flew the…
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