The Bookworm Sez: The secrets of success; an eco-friendly Christmas
    11/28/2008
    By Terri Schlichenmeyer

    Outliers: The Story of Success
    by Malcolm Gladwell
    c.2008, Little, Brown and Co.
    $27.99, 320 pages

    Your college alumni letter came the other day. You read it, surprised and a little depressed.
    A first-class slacker you graduated with is a multimillionaire now. The Guy Most Likely to Succeed has done just that and more. And that cheerleader you dated?
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    Film Review: 'Milk’: History, with a dose of relevance
    11/28/2008
    By Colin Covert
    McClatchy Newspapers
    Harvey Milk, the first openly gay American voted into major public office, liked to joke that he’d never make it to 50. And, of course, he was right.

    A transplanted New Yorker elected to San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors in 1977, Milk more >>



    Film Clips
    11/28/2008
    Australia
    Overlong and self-indulgent, Baz Luhrmann’s homage to epic adventure films feels like a slog through the outback itself. And yet it can be a visually wondrous journey, one with striking visuals that will take your breath away again and again. No one ever doubted the director’s capabilities as an inventive aesthetic stylist — this is the man, after all, who dared to set the balc
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    Food for thought: 'Mozart by Candlelight’
    11/28/2008
    Rock me, Amadeus
    The 22nd annual “Mozart by Candlelight” concert is at Trinity Episcopal Church tonight (Nov. 28) at 7. Tickets range from $10 to $25.

    By Sam Rolens
    Black Friday will surely dawn as it does every year, met with the great collective groan of American eate
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