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Is beauty in the eye of the self-beholder?

Just hours before attending a preview screening of I Feel Pretty, I happened to be riding a stationary bike at my gym when the nearest TV showed Amy Schumer plugging the flick on The Ellen DeGeneres Show.


DeGeneres praised the comedy, as…

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Operation Warm Launches National Volunteer Initiative, Strengthens Efforts to Combat Childhood Poverty

 Operation Warm Continues Supporting Low-Income Kids with Help from Community


Chadds Ford, PA – Since 1998, Operation Warm, a national nonprofit dedicated to providing brand new winter coats to children in need, has…

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Forget All You’ve Heard; Immigrants make Columbus Great

It’s easy to nowadays to casually flip through the newspaper, “Such a shame,” we say. Crying babies and images of ICE agents cover the front page. “Too bad, those poor kids.” And yet we turn to the next page; these are only problems in border…

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7 days in … the ‘90s

The universal laws of physics have been turned upside-down and torn to shreds: we’ve traveled back in time. We have hurtled back to the 1990s with a homophobic sexual predator as president. America’s military is once again launching strikes to…

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