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ARIES (March 20-April 18): Once again you’re held accountable while others are let off the hook. It’s time to point out the double standard. TAURUS (April 19-May 19): You extended the benefit of the doubt and now wonder if that was wise. Don’t feel bad about...

Great day for Japanese, women in pro baseball

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Baseball fans are disillusioned, and here's why: Pumped up with money and medication, the sport has gotten ever bigger and badder - and more boring. The one thing that has always distinguished baseball is the feeling of history in the making. Each season,...

Avoid the tourist's-eye view of Oahu

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Q: We're visiting Oahu next summer and would love some hints on snorkeling and hiking, hopefully in remote areas, and on boat tours and fishing day trips. We'd like to see the North Shore and the Banzai Pipeline, but we're not sure how gnarly the waves are in...

Pop into Paris on Air France long-haul deal

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Like the idea of a few days in Paris on your way to or from somewhere in Europe, Africa or India? If so, Air France has an idea for you: a free Paris stopover, in either direction or both directions, on any trip connecting through Paris. The Plus Paris...

Week's TV ratings

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Prime-time ratings as compiled by Nielsen Media Research for Nov. 24-30. Top 20 listings include the week's ranking, with viewership for the week, in millions. 1Dancing With the StarsABC21.12Dancing With the Stars ResultsABC20.6360...

Give the Clintons what they need

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Rumor has it, writes the imaginative Janice Hough, that former President Bill Clinton will take over for his wife in the Senate but has specified he has three conditions for taking the job: Chuck Schumer's support, Michael Bloomberg's cooperation and Eliot...

J.K. Rowling's 'Beedle' tales in store today

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Recession-hit booksellers are hoping for a magical boost from a new book by Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling. "The Tales of Beedle the Bard," a collection of five fables mentioned in Rowling's saga about the boy wizard, is being published around the world...

Argentine president welcomes Madonna

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Madonna met with a president and a former guerrilla-held hostage at Argentina's presidential palace, where she filmed "Evita" 12 years ago. The pop star, in Buenos Aires on the Latin America leg of her "Sticky & Sweet" world tour, showed up early on Tuesday...

Music review: Lang Lang batters the piano

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It's clear that Lang Lang can do anything and everything he wants with a piano. To listen to his solo recital in Davies Symphony Hall on Tuesday night was to feel awe at the extent of his abilities - and bewilderment and dismay at what he chose to do with...

Pianist Lang Lang's magic flows from the keys

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When Lang Lang says that music is a source of energy for him, he isn't kidding. Monday was a long day for the 26-year-old Chinese piano superstar. He had landed in San Francisco at 1 a.m. that day, and rolled out of bed to face a grueling schedule of visits...

Music review: AC/DC at Oracle Arena

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In maybe eight or 10 years, this is all going to look ridiculous. You can't have 70-year-old men singing about dirty, dirty women, dressing in schoolboy uniforms and performing under the shadow of a 50-foot-high trollop in torn stockings and a triple-D...