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Kimberly Dozier's gripping survival story

Mon, 12 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400

Critically wounded in Iraq, CBS News reporter Kimberly Dozier faced an uphill battle to tell her gripping story of survival

At first, it seemed as if nobody wanted the book that CBS News correspondent Kimberly Dozier was trying to write about her life and near-death experience in Iraq.

Keeping a civil tongue in traffic

Mon, 12 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400

P.M. Forni even drives with civility.

A mostly lovely 'Madama Butterfly'

Mon, 12 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400

Although famously booed, hissed and cat-called at its premiere in February 1904, Puccini's Madama Butterfly took wing by May - after the composer made some revisions - and has flown unimpeded ever since, unaffected by changing times or attitudes.

Dynamic singing, odd behavior at Erykah Badu's show

Mon, 12 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400

There's no other artist in mainstream R&B right now who synthesizes her influences as dynamically as Erykah Badu. Her albums -- especially her latest, New Amerykah Part One (4th World War) -- often swirl with vivid strains of hip-hop, '70s funk, jazz-fusion, vintage blues and whatever else the Dallas singer-songwriter feels like throwing in the mix. Yet the results coalesce into a singular sound that is unmistakably Badu.

Carrie Underwood officially part of the Opry

Mon, 12 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400

Carrie Underwood is the newest member of the Grand Ole Opry.

Liz Smith: Celebrities in high-end fashion mingle among Met's high-end art

Mon, 12 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400

Here are a few raveled threads plucked from that highly charged evening at the Metropolitan Museum, put on by Vogue's Anna Wintour last week. (And, incidentally, did you know that the editor's rather controversial Chanel dress, described as looking a bit like ram's horns, was called "Storm"?)

'Paper Doll House' designed for those with home in mind

Mon, 12 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400

Beginning today, Charm City's interior-design fans have a magazine to call their own.

'Iron Man' maintains its hold on No. 1 spot

Mon, 12 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400

Iron Man beat Speed Racer to the finish line of the weekend box office, according to studio estimates yesterday.

What to watch

Mon, 12 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400

Today on TV

Part 1 of a two-part season finale of House brings more tribulations for the grouchy doctor (Hugh Laurie). After being involved in a bus accident, he loses a chunk of his memory, which is unfortunate because he has a nagging feeling that a fellow passenger was exhibiting signs of a deadly illness. Despite calls for bed rest from his browbeaten underlings, House pushes through the pain of his injuries, desperate to piece together the fragments of his shattered memory to solve the medical mystery (9 p.m.-10 p.m., WBFF, Channel 45).

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Mon, 12 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400