Jennifer Lopez was “homeless” just months before she had her big break. The 43-year-old superstar was cast as a Fly Girl dancer on popular American sketch comedy show In Living Color in 1991
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Comparison Shopping for Health Care
Feb.
The Trial of Pastor Amy DeLong: Methodism and Same-Sex Unions
The Rev. Amy DeLong, a Methodist pastor from Osceola, Wisconsin, decided to come clean
Nairobi: 10 Things to Do in 24 Hours — Introduction
If you’re craving a quick hit of optimism, reading a newsmagazine is probably not the best way to go about finding it. As the life coaches and motivational speakers have been trying to tell us for more than a decade now, a healthy, positive mental outlook requires strict abstinence from current events in all forms
Kung Fu Panda 2: The Bear Necessities
The evil Lord Shen has just introduced gunpowder to China and plans to aim it at the country’s greatest martial artists, a group that implausibly includes a pudgy panda bear named Po . Po’s teacher Shifu considers this a revolting development; as he observes mournfully, “This could be the end of kung fu.” And the panda, a late bloomer in the discipline, whines, “But I just got kung fu!” When the DreamWorks animation auteurs get a concept, they don’t let go
Talking About Tiger Moms
Re “The Roar of the Tiger Mom” [Jan. 31]: As a young Chinese American who has been on the receiving end of this sort of discipline, I can say that the ways of the tiger mom are effective and laudable to an extent
Barbara Ehrenreich on The Peril of Positive Thinking
If you’re craving a quick hit of optimism, reading a news magazine is probably not the best way to go about finding it.