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Emmanuel Jal: The war child fighting for a better future

Emmanuel Jal is fighting to give the youth of Sudan an education after his own childhood was stolen by war.

Life lessons from a celebrity guru

Laura Day doesn't call herself a psychic. She prefers the term "intuitionist." Whatever you call whatever she has, actors, studio heads, and corporate and financial titans pay her $10,000 a month for 24/7 access to it.

10 offbeat college essay topics

As high school seniors across the country are hard at work polishing their college applications, let's take a look at some of the stranger questions those wacky admissions officers have asked.

SI.com: Jon Wertheim: Oudin still needs work to reach next level

WTHIGOW Melanie Oudin? -- Tom, Riverwoods, Ill.

Sarah Palin's publishing and political worlds in collision

In today's publishing market, "Going Rogue" is a fat book at 432 pages, at a high price point of $28.99, with a massive (rumored 1.5 million) first printing, launched on the book world's version of a Royal Tour, where Oprah is Queen of the Universe and Barbara Walters is Duchess of the D.C.-Manhattan cognoscenti.

People.com: PHOTO: The Carrie Diaries Revealed!

The Sex and the City prequel will hit bookstores April 2010

King: 'Going Rogue' reignites Palin divide, even in her hometown

At Pandemonium Booksellers, the Sarah Palin 2010 calendars are hot sellers, and since the election, the traffic in political books has been decidedly to the right.

Agassi seeks atonement

Andre Agassi has exclusively told CNN that the revelations in his book about drug use are to help atone for the mistakes he has made and are not motivated by money.

Choosing no kids -- maybe not

I learned how to write at the bowling alley.

People.com: Inside Jessica & Cash's Fashionable Book Party

• Jessica Alba, toasting celebrity photographer Mark Liddell's new book with hubby Cash Warren during a bash in L.A. The duo "seemed very much in love," an onlooker tells us, adding that Alba talked up her daughter Honor all night. Alba also gave a warm speech about Liddell, praising him for his work with the Trevor Project, while guests munched on food prepared by Top Chef contestant Marcel Vigneron.

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