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Ken Barlow's new love interest Helen Lederer, 69, says she lived off slimming pills for years and wine in a desperate bid to be thin: 'It was truly like I was living the Ab Fab life'
1 year ago

Ken Barlow's new love interest Helen Lederer, 69, says she lived off slimming pills for years and wine in a desperate bid to be thin: 'It was truly like I was living the Ab Fab life'

Daily Mail  

Ken Barlow's new love interest Helen Lederer has revealed the drastic lengths she went to be thin. The Absolutely Fabulous actress, 69, who is set to appear on Coronation Street next week as Ken's date Elspeth, admitted she took slimming pills for years and lived on a diet of 400 calories a day and wine. Ken Barlow's new love interest …

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Football Australia boss James Johnson pledges crackdown on A-League referee abuse after Marko Rudan, Paul Lederer incidents
1 year, 1 month ago

Football Australia boss James Johnson pledges crackdown on A-League referee abuse after Marko Rudan, Paul Lederer incidents

ABC  

In short: Football Australia boss James Johnson said growing instances of referee abuse triggered alarm bells for the organisation. Football Australia boss James Johnson said growing instances of referee abuse triggered alarm bells for the organisation. Western Sydney Wanderers coach Marko Rudan and chairman Paul Lederer are both in the spotlight for incidents in the past few weeks What's next? …

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How an AP reporter broke the Tuskegee syphilis story
2 years, 8 months ago

How an AP reporter broke the Tuskegee syphilis story

Associated Press  

SOUTHPORT, N.C. — Jean Heller was toiling away on the floor of the Miami Beach Convention Center when an Associated Press colleague from the opposite end of the country walked into her workspace behind the event stage and handed her a thin manila envelope. “I’m not an investigative reporter,” Edith Lederer told the 29-year-old Heller as competitors typed away beyond …

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The PPP process was excruciating for some last year. Will it change this time around?
4 years, 2 months ago

The PPP process was excruciating for some last year. Will it change this time around?

LA Times  

Market researcher Dave Cristofaro was down to his last $1,500 and on the verge of laying off his final four full-time employees — down from seven before the pandemic — when he got a loan in May from the federal Paycheck Protection Program. “I’m about to tell my employees, ‘Hey, we’re going to have to stop working,’” said Cristofaro, 56, …

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Mank movie accuracy: what’s fact and what’s fiction in David Fincher’s movie about the making of Citizen Kane.
55 years, 2 months ago

Mank movie accuracy: what’s fact and what’s fiction in David Fincher’s movie about the making of Citizen Kane.

Slate  

Mank, the new movie from director David Fincher about Citizen Kane’s co-screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz, wades waist-deep into two contentious moments in American history and starts throwing punches. Upton Sinclair’s Campaign for Governor Mank takes its cues from Citizen Kane wherever it can, so naturally it has a Rosebud-style mystery at its center: Why did Herman J. Mankiewicz write a …

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Distinguished Kenyan journalist Chege Mbitiru dies at 77
4 years, 10 months ago

Distinguished Kenyan journalist Chege Mbitiru dies at 77

Associated Press  

NAIROBI, Kenya — Distinguished Kenyan journalist Chege Mbitiru, whose career included work in North America and Kenya, has died at 77 of cardiac arrest. “He would always mix his smart, many times sarcastic, comments about the news with a chat that would connect the extraordinary events that raged across Africa in the mid-90s with conflicts in Latin America,” said Ricardo …

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Ava DuVernay shuts down Trump’s Central Park Five comments: ‘There’s no truth to it’
5 years, 9 months ago

Ava DuVernay shuts down Trump’s Central Park Five comments: ‘There’s no truth to it’

LA Times  

Ava DuVernay is not the least bit surprised that President Trump has doubled down on his stance regarding the men collectively labeled the Central Park Five, whose wrongful conviction in the 1989 rape and assault of Trisha Meili, and later exoneration, are recounted in the Netflix docudrama “When They See Us.” “It’s expected,” she said with a shrug on Tuesday …

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Hungary ‘starving’ Iraqi migrants detained at border
6 years, 1 month ago

Hungary ‘starving’ Iraqi migrants detained at border

Al Jazeera  

The Iraqis’ asylum claims were rejected by Hungary and they were denied food while being held in the transit zone. Andras Lederer, the information and advocacy officer at the Hungarian Helsinki Committee, explained that parents from two Iraqi families were denied food while detained in Hungary’s two transit zones in February. Though the parents of the two families were not …

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Hungary retrial highlights ‘vilification of refugees’
7 years, 2 months ago

Hungary retrial highlights ‘vilification of refugees’

Al Jazeera  

Syrian refugee was found guilty of an ‘act of terror’ in 2016 after a riot on the Serbia-Hungary border in 2015. The refugee, identified as Ahmed H, was give a 10-year prison sentence in November 2016 after a conviction based on Hungary’s anti-terrorism law – which Amnesty International calls “vague” – for throwing stones at Hungarian police, using a megaphone …

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Celebrity Big Brother 2017 contestants: From TV psychics to Barry from Eastenders
7 years, 7 months ago

Celebrity Big Brother 2017 contestants: From TV psychics to Barry from Eastenders

The Independent  

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. open image in gallery Jemma Lucy is a former glamour model Jemma Lucy Glamour …

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A Doctor Wrestles With Whether To Keep Wearing His White Coat
9 years, 4 months ago

A Doctor Wrestles With Whether To Keep Wearing His White Coat

NPR  

A Doctor Wrestles With Whether To Keep Wearing His White Coat Enlarge this image Lorenzo Gritti for NPR Lorenzo Gritti for NPR I remember being handed a white coat during my first year of medical school. Now the vast majority of the nation's medical schools host special white coat ceremonies, in which new students are welcomed into their profession with …

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Album review: Matt Wilson Quartet + John Medeski’s ‘Gathering Call’
11 years, 2 months ago

Album review: Matt Wilson Quartet + John Medeski’s ‘Gathering Call’

LA Times  

You can’t talk about drummer Matt Wilson without talking about swing, that pulse of jazz that’s been his specialty on more than 250 recordings as a sideman. PHOTOS: Best jazz albums of 2013 | Chris Barton “Some Assembly Required” crackles through an irresistible thrust from Wilson, who gives way to sterling solos from saxophonist Jeff Lederer and cornetist Kirk Knuffke …

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3 Found Guilty in Central Park Jogger Attacks
34 years, 7 months ago

3 Found Guilty in Central Park Jogger Attacks

LA Times  

TIMES STAFF WRITER After 10 days of painstaking deliberations, a jury late Saturday found three teen-agers guilty of raping and assaulting a Central Park jogger in a case that added the terrifying word wilding to the national vocabulary of violence. Some observers had expected a quick verdict in the case, which began when a gang of up to 50 black …

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