...temporary special administrators to run the estate until the process is completed. Katherine Jackson replaced the lawyers representing her in the estate case last month with attorney Adam Streisand. Another Jackson family lawyer said...

In this article: Michael Jackson, Katherine Jackson, Howard Weitzman, U.S., The Jacksons, California, and Beneficiary

Washington had heard of the young Pole from Benjamin Franklin , an urbane traveler who had been Washington 's first ambassador to France. Franklin told Washington of Pulaski 's exploits that had made him "renowned throughout Europe for the...

In this article: Casimir Pulaski, George Washington, United States, Revolutionary War, Michelle Obama, Dennis Kucinich, Benjamin Franklin, Savannah, Ga, and Pulaski Day

One man finally decided to do something about it and killed 168 people. When gently questioned by Tim Russert as to whether the white-hot vitriol he rode to power might have contributed to a political climate which made Oklahoma City possible,...

In this article: GOP, Hillary Clinton, Newt Gingrich, Tim Russert, Nascar, Great Leap Forward, Democratic Party, Michelle Bachman, John Boehner, and Dick Armey

By Lucy Hornby and Chris Buckley China denounced as protectionist new U.S. anti-dumping duties on steel pipes and launched its own investigation into imports of U.S. -made automobiles on Friday, a week before a visit by President Barack...

In this article: China, United States, Barack Obama, World Trade Organisation, Washington, Natural gas, Value chain, and Potassium phosphate

By Chris Buckley and Huang Yan China urged more contact with the U.S. military on Friday while President Hu Jintao said his nation's plans for space were peaceful, striking a conciliatory tone ahead of U.S. President Barack Obama's...

In this article: China, Barack Obama, Beijing, U.S., Hu Jintao, and Xu Qiliang

By Chris Buckley and Melanie Lee China 's Culture Ministry has accused the publishing watchdog of abusing its authority by threatening access to the popular online game, World of Warcraft , stoking bureaucratic rivalry over control of the...

In this article: China, NetEase, Warcraft, World of Warcraft, and Ministry of Culture

...Church only twice, but major theme echoes key doctrine. Updated: 11/05/2009 05:07:49 PM MST Mormons are breathing easier after reading Dan Brown's new book, The Lost Symbol , which many worried would cast them as the same kind of...

In this article: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Dan Brown, Joseph Smith, God, Gordon B. Hinckley, Brigham Young, and Utah

Anne Frank mentioned the tree - seen outside her attic window in Amsterdam - several times in her diary. BOISE (AP) A human rights memorial in Idaho 's capital city will receive a sapling grafted from the chestnut tree that grew outside...

In this article: Anne Frank, Boise, Idaho, Amsterdam, Spokesman-Review, Idaho, New York, World War II, Central High School, and Silver

...that the famed illustrator and author called "my crowning achievement." "It is charming -- vintage Sendak ," says Jonathan Eaton of the sets Sendak created. Eaton 's Opera Theater of Pittsburgh will produce Krasa 's uplifting story of...

In this article: Maurice Sendak, Brundibar, Chicago Opera Theater, Hans Krasa, Where the Wild Things Are, Glyndebourne Festival Opera, and School Library Journal

The George Washington boys' soccer team won last year's Public League Class AAA trophy without Chea Fineboy. But Monday, the Eagles repeated as champions because their diminutive but speedy junior midfielder scored both goals in a 2-0 final...

In this article: George Washington, Fridley, Minn., Minnesota, Legal age, Mid-American Conference, and University of Wisconsin-Green Bay

...husband Jon. She doesn't trust many people. Bottom line: It's hard being Kate. And in a very special interview last night on TLC -- " Kate Gosselin : Her Story" -- we got to hear about her hardships for 60 whole minutes. And yes, I watched so...

In this article: Kate Gosselin, Jon Gosselin, TLC, What Not to Wear, and NBC

Have the good people at printer St Ives been reading too many of the novels they print? One of the latest is Dan Brown 's The Lost Symbol , "a deadly race through a real-world labyrinth of codes, secrets, and unseen truths". By Jonathan...

In this article: Dan Brown, Michael O'Leary, Da Vinci Code, and London

...cycle, GOPers had no public issues with appearing on MSNBC debates, which were usually moderated by NBC 's Brian Williams , the late Tim Russert and MSNBC 's Chris Matthews -- prior to a "thrill going up" his leg. Since then, MSNBC has pushed...

In this article: Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum, Ron Paul, Mike Huckabee, Msnbc, Fox Business Channel, Rachel Maddow Show, CNBC, Bobby Jindal, and Eric Cantor

...to supply. The museum's exhibition "The Expanding Eye" features pieces of art inspired by the works of Edgar Allan Poe. The art is meant to emphasize Poe 's craving for knowledge of creativity and the world beyond tangible reality. With 19...

In this article: Edgar Allan Poe, Hop Frog, Halloween, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Masque of the Red Death, The Cask of Amontillado, and The Fall of the House of Usher

...popped up on the Food Network to judge a cheesesteak competition? It does not. Anyway, I'll leave you with a quote from the venerable Mark Twain , who wrote and said a lot of smart things during his time: "There are basically two types of...

In this article: New York, George Washington, Peter Minuit, Manhattan, Yankees, David Blaine, Dutch West India Co., Statue of Liberty, and Cheesesteak

...prim clipped boxwood borders, an English Herb Society garden and a courtyard with a bronze bust of George Washington , given to Sulgrave by George Washington University in Washington , D.C. Inside, the Great Hall showcases Elizabethan-era...

In this article: George Washington, England, Oxfordshire, Lawrence Washington, London, Virginia, United States, and George Washington University

WASHINGTON : One day in 1791 George Washington received a bill for AGBP60, 1 shilling and 7 pence from his friend Dr James Craik , who regularly made the rounds at Mount Vernon , where the great man lived. The invoice ran two pages:

In this article: George Washington, Mount Vernon, Revolutionary War, University of Virginia, Harvard, and James Craik

...would mistake it for the real thing. It would have been an ironic choice, Buckley said, given that he 'd once panned a Clancy novel, citing Mark Twain 's comment about a novel: "Once you put it down, you simply can't pick it up." • "Oval Sex...

In this article: Christopher Buckley, Mark Twain, William F. Buckley, Charlotte, Monica Lewinsky, Boomsday, and Little Green Men