I keep seeing pictures of Nora Ephron posted, because she died recently. I keep seeing pictures of her and thinking it's someone else, though.


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Tom Lehrer once said: Among the things they did in an attempt to make the [Roman Catholic] Church more... commercial was to introduce the vernacular into portions of the Mass to replace Latin, and to widen somewhat the range of music permissible in the liturgy. But I feel that if they really want to sell the product in this secular, age what they ( Read more... )

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So, I'm not too hot on modern history, but even I was surprised to know that Jacques Chirac was a prominent member of the Egyptian administration during the Suez crisis.


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