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Because the stars know things we don't.
Aries (March 21-April 19)
Today is an 8
Mercury goes retrograde today (until April 4) in your sign. Don't take it personally.
This chaotic frequency that's broadcasting confusion, it's not about you at all. Stick to your deadlines.
Taurus (April 20-May 20)
Today is a 8
Today is a 8
Take care of your well-being with plenty of rest and fluids.
Patience pays, and slowing the pace forestalls accidents.
Watch where you're going. Hidden talents get revealed.
Gemini (May 21-June 21) Today is a 7
Gemini (May 21-June 21)
Today is a 7
The next 24 days of Mercury in retrograde throw static into communications, especially in groups. Say it twice. Put it (and get it) in writing.
Cancer (June 22-July 22)
Today is an 7
Your professional status could take a tumble. Pick yourself up, dust off and get back to the great service you're known for. If there's a mess, clean it up. It works out.
Leo (July 23-Aug. 22)
Today is a 8
Today is a 8
Focus your attention on the things that work, the break-throughs. Confusion could arise around education, philosophy or writing. Take it in stride. No need to decide.
Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)
Today is an 8
Today is an 8 You feel balanced and assured, as the rest of the story swirls. Even with breakdowns, things get worked out. Organize at home for greater power. Take it easy.
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)
Today is a 7
Mercury in Aries goes retro-
grade for you, Libra, in your
seventh house of partnership.
Sync schedules and reconfirm
reservations. Have backup
communication plans.
Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)
Today is a 7
There could be disruption in service and health today, and over the next month. Prepare and back up what you can, and go lightly. Loving support is close by.
Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec.21)
Today is a 8
Beef up communication and travel infrastructure to avoid breakdown in the fun zone. Artistic expression, romance, kids and pets could get a bit hectic. Play it loose.
Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)
Today is a 7
Mercury affects you in your fourth house of home and roots, mudding family communications or adding travel delays. Persistence and humor carry the day.
Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)
Today is a 8.
Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)
Today is a 8
For around the next month,
expect delays and miscommunications, in general. For Aquarius, communications are even more affected. Double-check important ones.
Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20)
Today is a 6
Go ahead and seek funding (it may take time for it to come in). Expect wacky interruptions, with some energy and chaos involved. Back up hard drives. Check tires and fluids.
ACROSS
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5 Stir-frying vessel
8 Gets older
12 Opening night
14 Cat of "Iron Chef"
15 Priesthood school
16 Barrel
17 Actor Chaney
18 Slim and trim
20 Extraterrestrial
23 Put your foot down?
24 Infant
25 Cabal member
28 High card
29 Sacha Baron Cohen portrayal
30 Haul
32 Emulate Ponce del Leon
34 Car
35 Freeway access
36 "The — Is Right"
37 Horse-radish kin
40 That woman
41 Partner
42 Florida State athlete
47 Libertine
48 Makes like
49 Act
50 Used a shovel
51 Halt
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events)
2 Raw rock
3 Height of fashion?
4 John le Carré hero
5 Remove gradually
6 Hockey legend Bobby
7 Pennsylvania, the — State
8 Take
9 Soccer score
10 Formerly, formerly
11 Rice wine
13 Part of the loop
19 White House turndown
20 Lawyers' org.
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22 Mountain goat
23 Drink noisily
25 Made a vow
26 Needle case
27 Campus mil. grp.
29 Spill the beans
31 Trouble
33 Beseeched
34 Sports venues
36 Collins or Donahue
37 Prison division
38 Lotion additive
39 Pivot
40 Too confident
43 Ostrich's kin
44 Mel of Coopers-town
45 Virgo neighbor
46 Kreskin's claim
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6 5
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8 7 4 9
8 1
8 2 5 1
4 6 7 8
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Dennis Quaid to be divorced for third time
LOS ANGELES — Dennis Quaid's third wife, Kimberly Buffington-Quaid, has reportedly filed for divorce, asking for spousal support
and attorney's fees.
"The marriage has become insupportable because of discord or conflict of personalities ... that destroys the legitimate ends of the ma
Quaid
riage relationship and prevents any reasonable expectation of reconciliation," said the divorce filing, obtained by TMZ.
The two have a temporary custody agreement in place as well, the website said, giving each party time with the young kids. Kimberly reportedly has custody of their main home.
Quaid was previously married to actress P.J. Soles, divoring in 1983, and more famously to Meg Ryan. He and Ryan split in 2001 after 10 years of marriage.
Quaid relocated to Austin, Texas, last year with Buffington-Quaid and their twins, saying, "L.A. has been good to us, but at this point in my life I'm ready to try something new." The couple were married in July 2004.
—McClatchy Tribune
TELEVISION
Britney Spears signs on as 'X Factor' judge
LOS ANGELES — Looks like Simon Cowell has found his next judge: Brittany Spears.
After weeks of speculation, the pop star is close to signing on for the second season of Cowell's "The X Factor" on Fox, according to published reports.
A spokeswoman for Cowell declined to comment, as did a Fox representative.
But Deadline.com says that Spears has been offered $10 million for the gig, which would put her just under
the $12 million that Jennifer Lopez is making at the rival "American Idol."
Cowell sacked judges Nicole Scherzinger and Abdul after the first season of "X Factor" produced lower-than-expected ratings last fall. As a recording artist who has sold more than 100 million records — as well as a longtime tabloid fixture — Spears could give the program an instant PR boost.
Meanwhile, there are signs that viewers are growing tired of "Idol." This season, ratings for NBC's "The Voice" have pulled even with the Fox show, which has aired every year since 2002.
ATHLETES
MCCLATCHY TRIBUNE
Britney Spears and her ex-husband Kevin Fedlerine at the 2004 Billboard Music Awards Dec. 8, 2004.
McClatchy Tribune
Magic Johnson makes ESPN documentary
MCCLATCHY TRIBUNE
LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles Lakers legend and entrepreneur Earvin "Magic" Johnson made "The Announcement," an ESPN documentary about his life with a frightening diagnosis, to remind people that HIV and AIDS are still both fatal — and preventable.
MCCLATCHY TRIBUNE
"I am not cured;" he says at the film's end.
Director Nelson George's moving and informative film does that and more. It highlights, among other things, the wonder that was Magic Johnson as a basketball player, the apresmoi madness of L.A. in the '80s, the horror of the AIDS crisis, the value and valor of frankness and, perhaps most important, why, despite all the heartbreak they cause, we still need sports heroes.
When he came to Los Angeles in 1979, he not only helped turn the Lakers into a championship franchise, he and his on-court rival Larry Bird of the Celtics helped re-energize a sagging NBA.
"I didn't drink or smoke," Johnson says, "because that would get in the way of winning, but there were other things to tempt me."
"Other things" being the many women who surrounded him, separating him for some time from his college sweetheart, Cookie, whom Johnson would eventually marry.
The 1980s were also shadowed by the AIDS epidemic, but the crisis could not have seemed
Nov 7, 2011 marked the 20th anniversary of Magic Johnson's announcement that he was HIV-positive.
more removed from the world of Magic Johnson. Married, with a child on the way, he was at the top of his game when a routine blood test in October 1991 for an insurance policy revealed he was HIV positive. Set to play an exhibition game in Utah, he was called home by his longtime agent Lon Rosen and received the devastating news.
Then he had to do what he says was the most difficult task of his life: tell his wife. Fortunately, she was not infected, but a second test revealed that the virus had progressed enough that doctors recommended Johnson immediately retire from basketball.
"But I am going to beat this," he said at the time, with a smile, "and I'll see you all again soon."
So, though others, including Cookie, advised privacy, Johnson called a news conference to announce, in characteristically simple and upbeat tones, that having contracted the HIV virus, he would be leaving the Lakers.
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