Oprah Winfrey says she lives without feeling rage, which is a nice way to go through your days but potentially limiting when you’re playing the pivotal character in a film about an emotionally scarred woman who is all but consumed by it.
Needing to get in touch with some visceral fury, Winfrey reached out to one of the students she calls "my girls" — a young woman from the South African leadership academy she famously endowed — and asked her to recount her experiences with an aunt who had beaten her. Read More...
Prejudices Drove Killers, Witnesses Say Michael Shoels sitting beside a picture of his son, Isaiah, who was killed in the Columbine High School shooting. (AP/ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS) By Amy Goldstein, Rene Sanchez and Michael A. Fletcher
Washington Post Staff Writers
Friday, April 23, 1999; Page A1 LITTLETON, Colo., April 22 – At lunchtime Tuesday, the Columbine High School library was filled with students working quietly when the doors to the room swung open. Read More...
I think long and hard before I add gadgets or tools to my kitchen, so whenever someone gives me an alternative or additional use for an appliance that really works, I do a little happy dance.
In February, a reader wrote into our weekly Food chat to ask about the utility of multicookers. Hannah Crowley, an executive editor for America’s Test Kitchen product reviews, was our guest that week, and she recommended various uses for the appliance, including for cooking seafood, something I had never done. Read More...