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People judge members of their own circles more harshly than they judge individuals from other groups for the same transgressions, according to new Cornell University research. Morality plays a central role in this phenomenon. The…

BRUCE R. MILLER LOS ANGELES — Don’t confuse “How I Met Your Father” with “How I Met Your Mother,” star Hilary Duff says.Characters don’t match up. “This person isn’t our Barney. This person isn’t our…

BRUCE R. MILLER LOS ANGELES — Don’t confuse “How I Met Your Father” with “How I Met Your Mother,” star Hilary Duff says.Characters don’t match up. “This person isn’t our Barney. This person isn’t our…

How do you take the measure of a life? In Ian McEwan's expansive new novel, a man assesses his life's trajectory from childhood to old age, focusing…

For the most part, the bacterium Staphylococcus aureus is common and harmless, posing no threat to humans with whom they coexist. Occasionally, though, it can become an opportunistic pathogen, causing skin and bloodstream infections or food…

Opinion - Sports writers' fondness for athletes compromises their ability to truly serve their audience, Hamish Bidwell writes. White Ferns all-rounder Amelia Kerr Photo: Photosport I'd like to start this week by holding my…

Express News Service Whenever a new film addressing issues of the underprivileged or oppressed communities comes out, the comparisons to earlier films of similar ilk are inevitable. Manoj Kana’s Kenjira traverses the…

A biopic on the Kargil War hero Captain Vikram Batra, ‘Shershaah’ is not entirely a bad film but is plagued by the ordinariness of the war films we have been accustomed to About an hour into Shershaah, we get a scene carved out of the…