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Disney reaches its volunteer goal of one million

D isney Parks has reached its goal of inspiring one-million people to volunteer in their communities. The theme park and media giant announced this week that registration has closed on its “Give a Day/Get a Disney Day” program. Since the program’s ...

From ANDREW RYAN, Globe and Mail,  12 Mar 2010

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‘A war of racism and terror’

E very few years, Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg play war. First, they revisited the Second World War in the 1998 feature Saving Private Ryan , which earned Spielberg his second Best Director Oscar and Hanks another Best Actor nomination. Three years ...

From ANDREW RYAN, Globe and Mail,  12 Mar 2010

Related Topics: Tom Hanks,  Steven Spielberg,  HBO,  Stephen Ambrose

Disney Three Things

1 ESPN Wide World of Sports To the young jock in your family, this is what heaven will look like. Although most people are probably unaware that Walt Disney World even has a sports facility, this sprawling complex plays host to more than 300 events and ...

From ANDREW RYAN, Globe and Mail,  12 Mar 2010

Related Topics: Patrick Warburton,  Atlanta Braves,  LeBron James

The Donald banks on the star factor

The greatest trick Donald Trump ever pulled was convincing NBC to transform his reality series The Apprentice into The Celebrity Apprentice (Sunday, NBC at 9 p.m., and Global at 8 p.m.). Say what you will about the man's hair or his business acumen, ...

From ANDREW RYAN, Globe and Mail,  12 Mar 2010

Related Topics: Donald J Trump,  Mark Burnett,  Scott Hamilton,  Gene Simmons,  Cyndi Lauper

Truly a Lost Boy

Right up until the last days of his life, Corey Haim kept insisting that he was making a comeback. The last known moving images of the Toronto-born Haim, who died yesterday in Los Angeles of an apparent drug overdose, went up on the TMZ website within ...

From ANDREW RYAN, Globe and Mail,  10 Mar 2010

Related Topics: Corey Haim,  Corey Feldman,  Mickey Rooney,  Sarah Jessica Parker,  Jason Patric

The passions run high as libraries’ fate debated

Sell a page from the 556-year-old Gutenberg Bible, one woman suggested. Charge a modest fee for library cards, said another, waving a $10 bill. One man said that he was a prison librarian while serving time in Walpole and that closing any library ...

From ANDREW RYAN, Boston Globe,  9 Mar 2010

Related Topics: John McGrath (politician),  Thomas Menino,  John Adams

Rankings to decide fate of libraries

The decision about which of Boston’s libraries to potentially close will be based on far more than just how many books and DVDs patrons borrow. Library administrators will rank the 26 neighborhood branches by foot traffic, computer use, and how many ...

From ANDREW RYAN, Boston Globe,  9 Mar 2010

With cuts ahead, Menino talks of ‘transformation’

Mayor Thomas M. Menino proposed yesterday to close branch libraries and community centers to cut costs and reshape how Boston serves its citizens in the neighborhoods. In a speech to 500 business and civic leaders, Menino urged people to look beyond ...

From ANDREW RYAN, Boston Globe,  5 Mar 2010

Related Topics: Thomas Menino

Celebrity shocker: Stars explore their family trees

Have you ever gone back - way back - in tracing your ancestry? Be careful what you ask for. As a general rule, the further back you go in your bloodline, the stranger it gets. I probably could have lived out the rest of my natural days without the ...

From ANDREW RYAN, Globe and Mail,  5 Mar 2010

Related Topics: Sarah Jessica Parker,  Lisa Kudrow,  John Hurt,  Nigella Lawson,  Mary Walsh

Hub looks for boost to business

Mayor Thomas M. Menino of Boston, as part of an effort to spur business growth, will announce today a partnership with a nonprofit group in Charlestown that offers “microloans’’ of $500 to $50,000 to small companies unable to borrow from large ...

From ANDREW RYAN, Boston Globe,  4 Mar 2010

Related Topics: Thomas Menino

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