My only son, Jermaine Edwards, died in 2009 at just 24 years old. Three years later, I'm still being forced by First Marblehead Corporation to pay off Jermaine's student debt - even though he'll never have the chance to use his college education.
Jermaine was a wonderful young man and the light of my life. But he didn't just cast a spell on me - Jermaine had a talent for getting people to love him anywhere he went. When he went to college to study music production, I was happy to cosign his student loans. He dreamed of making a better life for himself. What mother wouldn't have wanted to help her only son do that?
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Then the unthinkable happened. I still don't know how or why Jermaine died. The doctors say they couldn't find anything wrong with him. But I do know he was a good man, my wonderful son, to the end.
When Jermaine died, I was left emotionally devastated, in a depression so deep I couldn't work. I
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By Katie Bookman | Green – Fri, Nov 30, 2012 11:08 PM ESTWho is Tiffany Ava Mitchell? 5 Facts About the Woman Lindsay Lohan Punched
By Katie Bookman | Green – Fri, Nov 30, 2012 11:03 PM EST
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Lindsay Lohan is certainly no stranger to spending a night in the slammer, but her latest arrest Wednesday night at NYC club Avenue, where she punched fellow club patron Tiffany Ava Mitchell, marked her first ever arrest on an assault-related charge.
The historic event allegedly took place when LiLo sensed that Mitchell was also vying for the attention of Max George, a member of British boy band The Wanted, with whom Lohan had been reportedly flirting. Earlier that night, Lohan attended a Justin Bieber concert at Madison Square Garden, where George's band was the opening act.
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Mitchell's husband, Wayne Stevens, who witnessed the fight, said that Lohan told his wife she needed "space" before hitting her in the face.
"She pushed my wife pretty hard, and I don't know why [Lohan] pushed her," Stevens told the NY Daily News. "She comes around and told my wife, 'I need space' ... and then she just punched her."David Beckham Farewell - Beckham Braced for Final MLS Game for LA Galaxy
By Katie Bookman | Green – Fri, Nov 30, 2012 10:58 PM EST
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It is a repeat of last year's final, when Landon Donovan's solitary goal gave Galaxy the victory.
But the build-up to this season's showpiece event has been overshadowed by the former Manchester United man's decision to quit the California club.
"There's an excitement around the team and around the club. It's been an enjoyable week," said Beckham.
The frontrunners for Beckham's signature seem to be French side Monaco after their chief executive officer Tor-Kristian Karlsen told BBC Sport: "We are happy with our current squad, but if there's a chance to get a player of Beckham's stature, we'd be foolish not to explore it."
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If selected, the Englishman will line-up in the final alongside former Everton loanee Donovan and Robbie Keane, who spent the majority of his career in the Premier League, in his last game for the club.
Having spent six years in America, it will be the third grand final appearance forRomney Internal Polls - Internal Polls: Why Romney Thought He Would Win
By Katie Bookman | Green – Fri, Nov 30, 2012 10:51 PM EST
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Romney thought he would win come election night. Romney felt so certain that he wrote a victory speech but not a concession speech. But why did Romney think he would win? According to The New Republic, Team Romney's internal polling data showed North Carolina, Florida, and Virginia as reasonably certain electoral vote victories and even put him ahead in a few other swing states including Ohio.
The Romney campaign's chief pollster Neil Newhouse explains that the mistake the Romney campaign made was to track potential Romney votes against Obama primarily with people most interested in the election, and thus assumed most likely to be among the 57.5 percent of eligible voters who bothered to vote. What they did not calculate for was that these most enthusiastic voters turned out to be a smaller share of the electorate than they predicted.
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"I'm not sure what the answer is," Newhouse said. "The only ones we hadMurder-Suicide at Wyo. College During Class, in Front of Students
By Katie Bookman | Green – Fri, Nov 30, 2012 10:45 PM EST
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Authorities: Murder-suicide at Wyo. college happened during class, in front of students.
Casper Police Chief Walsh says a man wielding a sharp-edged weapon killed one person in a Casper neighborhood Friday morning before going to the nearby Casper College campus. The man entered a classroom in a science building and killed a teacher, then himself, in front of students.
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The other victim was found in a street about 2 miles away.
Police say the suspect used a sharp-edged weapon in at least one of the attacks, and no guns were involved.
Walsh says the suspect wasn't believed to be a Casper College student but he did know the victims. The police chief released no names but said the victims were a male and a female.
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By Katie Bookman | Green – Fri, Nov 30, 2012 10:37 PM EST
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Joe Jackson, the 84-year-old father of late pop star Michael Jackson, has been hospitalized after suffering a stroke, but says he will be fine.
The family patriarch told ABC News on Thursday, November 29 that he is was treated at a medical center in Las Vegas and is expected to go home on Friday. Joe has diabetes and had also survived a stroke in 1998.
He is known for his past role as manager of the Jackson 5, the group that made Michael an international a child star. He had a strained relationship with the King of Pop, who said in interviews that his dad physically abused him.
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He was estranged from his 82-year-old wife and Michael's mother, Katherine, when the singer died at age 50 in June 2009. The two did, however, both attend the 2011 involuntary manslaughter trial of Conrad Murray, the doctor found guilty of causing Michael's death via an accidental overdose of propofol and other medications.
After
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The New York Post's Derek "Eater" back page has created a stir on the internet.
The Post obtained several less-than-flattering photos of Yankee Captain Derek Jeter who has apparently been putting on the pounds during his rehab from ankle surgery.
The Post tracked down the New York Yankees star, who as Deadspin pointed out, was even wearing cargo shorts, in Miami yesterday. The Post explains:
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"Derek Jeter was spotted at a hotel on South Beach in Miami yesterday wearing a walking boot to protect the left ankle he broke in the playoffs last season. Yet the 38-year-old Jeter also seemed to be carrying another burden - some extra weight hanging from the Yankees shortstop's normally fit frame."
"According to general manager Brian Cashman, Jeter has been in a non-weight bearing situation and will continue to be until January. That means if he has been able to work out at all, it has been limited to upper bodyHarvard Sex Club - Kinky Sex Club Approved at Harvard College
By Katie Bookman | Green – Fri, Nov 30, 2012 10:28 PM EST
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A club for people who want to discuss kinky sex was approved Friday at the world-renowned Harvard College in Cambridge, Mass.
The Committee on Student Life approved 15 student organizations, including Harvard College Munch.
This group, which began meeting informally a year ago, has grown to about 30 members, according to the school's student newspaper The Crimson.
Michael, who was granted anonymity by the newspaper, started the club last October.
He told the newspaper that club recognition will provide a sense of relief for current and future members knowing they are receiving institutional support. Munch is described as a low-pressure social gathering for people involved in or interested in BDSM - bondage and discipline, dominance and submission, and sadism and masochism.
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Being officially recognized on campus will allow the group to put up posters for events and promote Munch's presence. They will alsoTina Fey’s Daughter Makes Cameo on “30 Rock”
By Katie Bookman | Green – Fri, Nov 30, 2012 10:23 PM EST
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There have been a few spot-on casting choices in film and on t.v. when it comes to younger versions of adult actors-the kids in "Half Baked" spring to mind-but few have been so perfect as when "30 Rock" decided to let Tina Fey's daughter Alice play a young, eye-rolling version of Liz Lemon in a flashback sequence.
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Though it's brief, it's also perfectly adorable and more than believable; one could almost believe the producers actually found a time machine and scouted out a 6-year old Tina Fey for the role.
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By Katie Bookman | Green – Fri, Nov 30, 2012 10:18 PM EST
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Rosa Parks made history nearly six decades ago when she refused to vacate her seat on an Alabama bus to allow a white man to sit, and her seemingly small act of civil disobedience became a major moment in black history in America - one that will now be honored by buses in Hillsborough County, Florida.
Rosa Parks was arrested that night, when after a long day of work, she refused to vacate her seat on a Montgomery bus for a white man. Parks, who died in 2005, explained that the driver ordered her to move under threat of arrest and she said:
"The driver wanted us to stand up, the four of us. We didn't move at the beginning, but he says, 'Let me have these seats.' And the other three people moved, but I didn't."
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Speaking of her historical act of defiance, Rosa Parks later recalled:
"When that white driver stepped back toward us, when he waved his hand and ordered us up and out of our seats, I felt a
