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Now some fresh pickings from the Political Grapevine: Iranian Irregularities High voter turnout is a good thing. But one centrist Iranian Web site, Ayandeh, is reporting the turnout for last week’s Iranian presidential election was in some places a little too high. At least 30 towns and 26 provinces across …

He didn’t come from money. Never seemed to acquire much money. Never seemed to care about such things. They were, after all, he said, just things. A man who defined the value of a life, not by the valuables you collected in it, but the values you brought to it. …

A caretaker at a Pennsylvania assisted living facility has been charged in the death of a 79-year-old man who was fed scalding hot breakfast cereal. Alvador Thompson, 55, of Hatfield, Pa., allegedly poured a cup of hot cereal into the mouth of Ronald Myers on Oct. 8 at the Cambridge-Brightfield …

Hello America and happy Thanksgiving! I’ve been preparing for this holiday by eating non-stop for I’d say about six or eight months now; hence the chins. Anyway, it’s a great time of year because we are reminded that we’ve got a lot to be thankful for in this country and …

Culinary thrills run the gamut from tasting a witchetty grub, the plump, soft protein-packed larva of Central Australia, to crunching a croquembouche. French for “crisp in mouth” the treat is a tower of caramel-coated, custard-filled creampuffs, called profiteroles, wreathed in spun sugar. If your sense of adventure falls somewhere in …

Frost/Nixon opens in theaters this week, and it’s sure to prove once again that it must be great to be Ron Howard. He’s incredibly successful, happily married for over 30 years to his high school sweetheart, and everyone in Hollywood says he’s a really nice guy. But despite over the …

President-elect Obama’s plan to save the economy involves hiring the jobless to install light bulbs, paint classrooms and build windmills. Yes — windmills. Those stupid things that look great in postcards, but only work when it’s windy. It’s true: When windmills don’t blow, they suck. But what sucks more? That …

NEW YORK – If you believe the TV commercials and magazine ads, the age of the mom-and-pop company is back. Instead of relying on telecommunication giants AT&T Wireless or MCI for your cellular-phone service, you can get your text-messaging needs met by the mysterious but more personable mLife. And you …

WASHINGTON – Party lawyers in many states will be available en masse at the polls on Election Day, but whether they will be welcome depends on the party to which they belong. Democrats say they are training and placing 10,000 local attorneys across the country to guard against voter intimidation …

I’m perusing the newspapers today, eying the real estate sections, and — tell me if you’ve ever noticed this — everyone featured in builders’ ads is positively giddy. Or, if it’s for an adult community, over-the-top laughing older folk. It scares me. You know, I drive by a lot of …