The legendary actor-singer-dancer and his a cappella group the Vantastix surprised the patrons of a Denny’s restaurant last week by giving them a surprise rendition of the song Chitty Chitty Bang Bang from the film of that name that he starred in.
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As the many efforts to keep Donald Trump ‘on message’ and away from the kinds of incendiary off-the-cuff remarks that seem to cause daily controversy have failed, party leaders have worried that his sliding poll number will drag other GOP candidates down as well, threatening their hold on both houses of Congress and state legislatures.
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It is a cliché that older people seem to think that time goes by faster than younger people. Christian Yates reviews the various theories that purport to explain this.
This apparently accelerated time travel is not a result of filling our adult lives with grown-up responsibilities and worries. Research does in fact seem to show that perceived time moves more quickly for older people making our lives feel busy and rushed.
But do they also get a special line and a little carpet to walk over that reassures them that they are much more important than the rest of us?
He asks the important question that we all want answered but no one seems to ask the singer.
Today is Sunday when good Christians should be going to church. But while many do, more of them say they will be going while choosing to stay at home. A new report issued by the Public Religion Research Institute confirms something that has long been suspected, that people in the US tend to inflate their religiosity, in particular their attendance in church on Sunday.
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The Clintons have just released their 2015 tax returns. The latest returns show that the Clintons are very wealthy people, earning over $10 million in 2015, mostly via the extremely lucrative racket of giving speeches to wealthy groups
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There has been some interesting cricket going on around the world. The most fascinating has been the tour of England by Pakistan. Fresh after completely dominating Sri Lanka earlier in the summer, England faced a more formidable opponent in Pakistan who won the first Test by just 75 runs in a tight game. But England recovered to dominate the second Test, winning by a mammoth 330 runs and then took the third Test as well, coming back from a first innings deficit of 103 to win the match. The third day of the fourth Test has just ended and Pakistan seem poised to even the series on the fourth day, with England still needing 126 runs to win make Pakistan bat for the second time but with only six wickets left.
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The former Cuban leader, who successfully led the Cuban revolution in 1959, has survived numerous assassination plots by the US against him, repulsed an armed US-planned and supported invasion of his country, and refused to give up his socialist ideals and give in to massive US pressure and embargoes aimed at crippling the country’s economy. Fidel has overcome the machinations of 12 US presidents who could not tolerate the idea of a small neighboring nation not bending to its will. It is only in the last few years that the US has realized the failure of these efforts and is now trying a different approach.
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