Shirkieville or Terre Haute?
Our new profile of Indiana Senator Evan Bayh lists his place of birth as Terre Haute, Indiana.
Biographies
Happy 35th Birthday, Jar Jar Binks!
Actor Ahmed Best was born on this day in 1973.
Nick Symmonds Runs in Beijing
A point of personal pride here: Nick Symmonds will run the 800 meters in the Olympics this week.
Bad-Health Updates: Hayes and Novak
A few late follow-ups on recent news…
‘Man on Wire’ — Man, Oh, Man
Can’t wait to see the new movie Man on Wire. It’s a documentary about Philip Petit, the daredevil who walked a high wire between the World Trade Center towers in 1974.
Brett Favre Traded to the Jets
After 16 years as the beloved quarterback of the Green Bay Packers, Brett Favre has been traded to the New York Jets.Try the Milwaukie Journal-Sentinel for the latest notes from the Green Bay side, and Newsday for the New York take.
Morgan Freeman Crashes, Divorces
Actor Morgan Freeman is divorcing his wife just a few days after he suffered a near-fatal car accident, according to the Los Angeles Times.Nice photo selection to go with the story, there, LA Times.
Happy 78th Birthday, Neil Armstrong!
You stud.
First Photos of the Pitt-Jolie Twins
People magazine has published the first photos of Knox and Vivienne, the twin newborns of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt.
Solzhenitsyn Dead
Author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, the stubborn dissident who outlasted the Soviet Union, has died at age 89.His 1962 book A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, about a Soviet prison camp inmate, made him both famous and a favorite target of government authorities. (A mathematician and professor, he had already spent a decade in prison camps and then in exile in Kazakhstan.)