Tuesday, December 9, 2008

Focus: Screen Test: Tom Cruise

 

The star of "Valkyrie" speaks about his career and the infamous scene in "Risky Business."


In the repair room at Madame Tussauds, there are drawers full of shoes, wigs, and even eyebrows -- not to mention the wall of waxy hands.

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Odetta became a force of the folk music revival in the 1950s. In the 1960s her renditions of spirituals and blues became part of the soundtrack of the civil rights movement.


Multiple sclerosis can be an insidious disease, affecting many parts of the body and gradually causing serious disability. What is it like to live with MS? Eight men and women speak about their experiences.


Lebowskifest celebrates the Dude, bowling and, most importantly, drinking White Russians.


A gallery of reader-illustrated portraits of New York's governors, past and present.


This Lens photography series, which concludes with this entry, focused on people who have overnight jobs in New York City. Agins discuss her series in with a slide show, "After the Dark, Finding the Light."

Nearly 300,000 Afghans returned home from Pakistan in 2008. With winter approaching, many are on the brink of desperation in the eastern desert.

President-elect Barack Obama has called for an increase in troops in Afghanistan, but military experts caution that reinforcements are unlikely to lead to the sort of rapid turnaround that occurred after the troop surge in Iraq.

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