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‘Friends With Benefits’: A Sex-Without-Rom Com

admin — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 19:03:37 +0000

Two sex buddies mercilessly mock rom-com conventions even as their affair falls prey to them in Will Gluck’s too-clever-by-half comedy. The leads have terrific chemistry, but it’s in service of a shoddy script.
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Artist Lucian Freud dead at 88

admin — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 19:03:37 +0000

Artist Lucian Freud, known for his thick application of paints in painstakingly created, highly stylized portraits, has died at the age of 88, his publicist said Thursday. He died Wednesday night of an unspecified illness at his home in London.
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Calendar

admin — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 19:03:37 +0000

MARK YOUR CALENDAR Rudder High School’s Freshmen Football Camp will run from 8 to 11:30 a.m. on July 25-28 at Rudder High School. All incoming ninth grade Rudder Rangers who intend to play football in 2011 should attend. Cost is $10, which includes …
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Loveessence Launches New Romantic Networking Website for Black Women and All Men

admin — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 19:03:37 +0000

New Romantic Networking Website Addresses Issue of Romantic Relationship Prospects for Black Women With Launch on July 21, 2011New York, NY (PRWEB) July 21, 2011 Loveessence, a new romantic networking website for black women and all men, officially launches today to facilitate relationships between black women who are ready for love and all men who are ready to love them in return. Unlike …
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Capacity for Commitment May Start in Early Childhood

admin — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 19:03:37 +0000

WEDNESDAY, May 25 (HealthDay News) –The ability of men and women to have staying power and a strong level of commitment in their romantic relationships can be traced back to their early childhood and adolescence, a new study finds.
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Think You Have a Perfect Partner? That’s a Good Sign

admin — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 19:03:37 +0000

FRIDAY, March 11 (HealthDay News) — Forget that warning about rose-colored glasses setting you up for disappointment in romantic relationships.
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Pay for play

admin — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 19:03:37 +0000

If you crossed eBay with Match.com, you might come up with something Brandon Wade already invented. The Las Vegas resident and Internet entrepreneur specializes in websites that offer romantic relationships — or opportunities — in exchange for cold, hard cash.
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Yakima won’t fight police captain’s reinstatement

admin — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 19:03:37 +0000

YAKIMA, Wash. — The Yakima City Council has decided not to appeal an arbitrator’s ruling that reinstated a police captain who was demoted for having romantic relationships with two female sergeants.
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90 years ago, boxer Johnson sought his own pardon

admin — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 19:03:36 +0000

Congressional backers of a pardon for Jack Johnson, the world’s first black heavyweight champion who was imprisoned nearly a century ago for his romantic relationships with white women, say his prosecution was racially motivated. Johnson made the same argument 90 years ago while in prison, records at the National Archives show.
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Are Aquino’s romantic relationships real or imagined?

admin — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 19:03:36 +0000

Philippine president Benigno S. Aquino III has unleashed what can be a potentially deadly public-relations storm concerning his love life. As you probably know, his relationships with women is very much a subject of the news in the Philippines and elsewhere, and for good reason. He is the country’s first bachelor head of state and
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