American Girl Doll of the Year is from Columbia. You can hear her story and read to shelter pets at the Maryland SPCA.

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Anita Kunz celebrates a range of women, from activist Malala Yousafzai to painter Margaret Keane to Elizabeth Freeman, an ...

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Mutual admiration between two singer-songwriters resulted in Bob Dylan's enduring and style-bending duet of 1969.

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It has been tempting to view the C.I.A. as omniscient. Yet Coll’s chastening new book about the events leading up to the Iraq War, in 2003, shows just how often the agency was flying blind.

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