Athletes Fighting a New Battle
When NBA center Alonzo Mourning announced he was suffering from anemia and a rare kidney disease in 2003, many felt his career was over. But Mourning, then 33, was determined to bounce back. "Once I prepared my mind, my body responded." In ... [... more]
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Most Valuable Player
By W. Hodding Carter From Reader's Digest Greg Gadson, a lieutenant colonel in the Army's Warrior Transition Brigade, is a natural leader-the kind of guy you'd be looking for on the battlefield. He's also the kind of guy Mike Sullivan, wide ... [... more]
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Brokaw Goes Boom
As someone who lived through the '60s-a time I count as beginning with the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963 and ending with Richard M. Nixon's resignation in 1974-I have many personal memories of that turbulent, exhilarating, moving, ... [... more]
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Itching for a Fight
By Andy Simmons, guest columnist From Reader's Digest I've suddenly become nostalgic for my old one-room, half-bath, 12-story walk-up in the city's hovel district. Let me explain. It all started simply enough. Soon after we moved to the country, ... [... more]
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Alicia Keys: Up Close and Personal
High outside the penthouse of a New York City recording studio, R & B; and pop music star Alicia Keys is having fun during a photo shoot. The photographer is trying to coax her into leaning over a balcony railing to get a shot against the ... [... more]
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Geena Davis Interview: In Command
For once, the President of the United States is speechless. Can't say a word, can't utter a peep. No, we didn't ask an outrageous question, or spill coffee on the Oval Office rug. It's just that Geena Davis, who plays the first American woman to ... [... more]
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Characters: Kinky Friedman
The governor says knock it off!" It is a noisy morning at Kinky Friedman's ranch outside Austin. His five mutts, the Friedmans, are roughhousing something fierce, and a scruffy guest from New York named Ratso is loudly lamenting the state of ... [... more]
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LAST CONVERSATION WITH DAD
From Reader's Digest Plus: Read up on how to write your own memoirs I never really knew my father, or rather never took the time to ask him about the details of his life. His life had always been focused on mine. It was always about me. But isn't ... [... more]
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Through his grand and joyful voice, I found my own.
There was always an amazing amount of singing at my house when I was growing up, whether we were living in Los Angeles or New York. It quickly became apparent to me that my dad, John Raitt, had a different kind of job than most. For one thing, he ... [... more]
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Face to Face with Ray Romano
It's a life most men would find tough to handle: three kids, including a set of twins, a wife who's about a thousand times smarter than you are, and your big-mouth, busybody mother living across the street. Makes you tired just thinking about it, ... [... more]
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The Manager Who Couldn't Write
What launched Amy Tan's career was not a big break, but a kick in the butt. Before the million-copy sales of The Joy Luck Club, The Kitchen God's Wife and The Hundred Secret Senses, Amy Tan was a writer. A business writer. She and a partner ran a ... [... more]
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Face to Face with Muhammad Ali
Interview by Howard Bingham From Reader's Digest The date was set: Muhammad Ali would talk to Reader's Digest on the morning of September 11 at his home, an 88-acre farm in Berrien Springs, Mich. But when the hour arrived, the world was turned ... [... more]
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