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The No. 2 atheist activist in Illinois doesn't have an office or a car. Reporters have been banned from her home -- her mother is adamant on this point -- so the McDonald's across the street from Buffalo Grove High School has to serve as her impromptu media headquarters. None of which is surprising, when you consider that Dawn Sherman is all of 14. Her lawsuit challenging the new Silent Reflection and Student Prayer Act in Illinois has already resulted in a temporary injunction blocking the law's mandatory moment of silence for the 13,000 students in Township High School District...

Would you cast Liza Minnelli as Superwoman? More to the point, as a wildly drunk and vicious Superwoman? Her estranged husband, David Gest, insists it's a role she played during their 16-month marriage. He filed a $10 million suit Tuesday claiming she drew super strength from vodka, drinking up to a quart at a time and beating him as he pleaded with her to stop. Perhaps that was Krypton Vodka? Or, at least, Ephedra Enhanced Vodka? Gest, 50, who has reportedly checked into a rehabilitation center in Hawaii to recover from his injuries, didn't say. But Dr. Barbara Krantz, medical...