‘An Education’ Actress Carey Mulligan: A Star Is Born

“I love the pre-Raphaelites!” gushes Jenny , with the unself-conscious exuberance of a bright 16-year-old. The star pupil at an lite London girls’ school, Jenny has her eyes on Oxford, but can’t help giving a longing glance at the world of luxe, of fine art and good restaurants, that she is mad to enter

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Why the Pentagon Axed Its Afghanistan Warlord

Public beheadings in Afghanistan are usually associated with the Taliban, but on Monday it was Defense Secretary Robert Gates metaphorically wielding the ax from the Pentagon platform. Gates announced that he had asked for and received the resignation of his top commander in Afghanistan, Army General David McKiernan, after McKiernan spent only 11 months in that theater

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Reliving the crazy world of ‘Ally McBeal’

It’s only been a dozen years, but the landscape of television is very different from what it was when “Ally McBeal” was in its heyday. When the hit show debuted in 1997, the world of reality television consisted mostly of MTV’s “The Real World” and Fox’s “Cops.” Sitcoms and dramas were still king.

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