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Allen Harris is a pillar of the community, a married lawyer of spotless reputation who is asked to assume the presidency of a conservative university after its last president has been fired for engaging in a sexual affair with a student. He is to be vetted by the Board of Directors, who want to be certain that there is nothing in Harris' past that will cause another scandal that has badly damaged the image of the institution. He asserts to the board that his married life is without blemish and he has never engaged in adulterous or clandestine affairs.

A small town girl from the Midwest is carried away by her "Prince Charming" to the super charged canyons of modern New York City. Warned by her uptight advertising executive husband to beware of strangers, the newlywed cannot repress her small town upbringing and instinctive innocence. She eventually befriends many of the offbeat and quirky tenants in her apartment building and enters into their complicated and sometimes tragic lives.

Cult is a thriller with a chilling climax that shows how the power of sinister forces using mind control techniques can turn innocent people into weapons of destruction. Barney Harrigan, a successful computer entrepreneur, discovers that his young and impressionable wife has been lured by her fanatical sister into the "Glory Cult", a ruthless and powerful group in Oregon run by a charismatic "Guru".

After serving his Brooklyn district for years, Congressman Sullivan discovers that his once comfortable Irish-American majority has given way to a diverse district of blacks and Hispanics. Challenged by a more liberal opponent, he tries everything possible to maintain his seat only to painfully learn that he and his views are outdated and irrelevant to today's world. But he doesn't bow out of the race gracefully, and the fierce ensuing campaign brings new insights to the meaning of democracy.

When Charlie and Molly's son dies, their daughter-in-law remarries and is vaulted into an upper class world of money and privilege. She is now determined to lead a new life and keep her son free from the blue-collar influences of her ex in-laws. Forced to sue for their right to visit their beloved grandson, Charlie and Molly enter a world of courtroom conflict that deeply affects everyone involved, including the trial judge. Each of the players in this remarkable drama must search their souls for the right decision.

The caller made it clear - $10 million or her daughter's head. The power of unintended consequences sends the privileged life of prominent anti-war activist Sarah Raab crashing down around her. Fear and terror take hold, and Sarah turns to former CIA operative Carl Helman, a man she has only just met and who stands against everything she has been fighting for.

Thirty-eight-year old divorcee Grace Sorentino is in a precarious position, upwardly mobile in age, downwardly mobile in income. A cosmetician on Palm Beach's fashionable Worth Avenue, she barely makes enough to support her 16-year old daughter Jackie in their tiny apartment. Still they're scraping by, until Grace loses her job. Hanging on by a thread, Grace reluctantly pursues a cynical and bizarre scheme to snare a rich widower.

A womanizing married senator, enjoying a tryst in his Delaware beach home with a beautiful black woman, discovers that his paramour has accidentally drowned. Aware of the scandal that could ensue and destroy his political career, the senator mounts a campaign of cover-up and cynical lies designed to deflect the potential damage. This suspenseful tale of adultery, media manipulation, and political chicanery has familiar overtones and exposes the dilemma faced by any public figure who chooses the path of dissimulation and lying to protect his or her career.

Is cyberterrorism the next great threat? Listen to a discussion with features Reuters editor-in-chief Stephen J. Adler, George Washington University’s Center for Cyber and Homeland Security Director Frank J. Cilluffo, Marc Gordon, Constitutional law scholar Michael McConnell, and Mike Sheehan.

What's a contest without a prize? Aunt Molly has entered a joke-telling contest at a local comedy club, and Cam; her best friend, Eric; and Mr. Jansen are in the audience to watch her perform. The prizes are exciting, but the competition is stiff - there's a prop comic, a knock-knock joker, and more! As the show starts, Cam notices that one of the prizes, an engraved silver plate, has disappeared. Suddenly, everyone in the club becomes a suspect.

Der alte Kaiser beschließt seinen Sohn zu verheiraten. Da der Sohn sehr musikalisch ist, willigte er in diesen Plan nur ein, wenn sich ein Mädchen findet, die die Melodie, die er vorgibt, nachsingen kann. Nach langem Suchen finden die Boten des Königs ein solches Mädchen, die sehr schön ist, aber aus einfachen Verhältnissen kommt. Der König weigert sich, seinen Sohn mit einem einfachen Mädchen zu vermählen und verschweigt darum ihre Existenz.

Im beschaulichen Lünen steht Kriminalkommissar Schmidt vor einem Rätsel: Ein älteres Ehepaar schneidet sich allem Anschein nach zunächst die Kehle durch und stürzt anschließend aus dem obersten Stock eines Wohnhauses. Wie ist das möglich? Alles deutet auf einen Mord hin, doch die Spurenlage ist mehr als dürftig... Und so ahnt niemand die Ausmaße des vorangegangenen Dramas, dessen Wurzeln bis in die letzten Tage des Zweiten Weltkriegs zurückreichen.

Xaver Finkbeiner sieht sich einem bösen Verdacht ausgesetzt. Er soll vor Jahren einen mutmaßlichen Entführer unter Folterandrohung zum Reden gezwungen haben. Das jedenfalls scheint das plötzlich aufgetauchte Tonbandprotokoll eines alten Verhörs zu belegen. Finkbeiner ist entsetzt und mit den Nerven völlig runter. Ein Disziplinarverfahren wäre das Ende seiner Polizeikarriere. Auch Nina Brändle ist fassungslos. Soll und kann sie ihrem suspendierten Kollegen helfen? Die Ermittlungen gegen eine Tierimport-Mafia muss sie, mehr schlecht als recht, ohne ihn betreiben.

Als kleines Mädchen verliert Nete Hermansen ihre Mutter. Damit beginnen für sie Jahre des Schreckens: Von einem Cousin vergewaltigt und geschwängert, gerät sie in die Arme eines fanatischen Arztes, der sie ebenfalls missbraucht, entmündigt und schließlich auf eine Insel bringt, wo sie zwangssterilisiert wird. Als eine liebevolle Pflegefamilie ihr ein neues Leben schenkt, lernt Nete zu vergessen. Bis sie Jahre später erneut auf ihren Peiniger trifft und beschließt, grausame Rache zu nehmen.

Alle sind sich einig: Bruce Jansen wird neuer Präsident der Vereinigten Staaten. In jeder Situation beweist er Stärke - selbst als seine Frau...

Egomanische Testosteron-Striezelchen, Frauen mit viel zuviel Hollywood im Kopf und ein Nougatauge, auf das man sich verlässlich nicht verlassen kann...

Diese Hypnose verankert kalorienarmes, bewusstes Essverhalten und ermöglicht einen konsequenten Verzicht auf kalorienreiche, dick machende Lebensmittel, die gern und zu oft gegessen werden. Die Kilos purzeln wie von allein und der Traumfigur steht nichts mehr im Wege.

Nach einem Flugzeugabsturz über feindlichem Territorium retten sich die britischen Fliegerpiloten Bryan und James in einen Krankentransport...

Are you struggling with addiction, whether to alcohol, prescription or illicit drugs, overeating, anorexia, bulimia, or gambling, overspending and debt? Or are you in a relationship that is sex-addicted, codependent, or self-destructive in another way?

Now that Wren and Talon have finally found each other, one particular ghost from both of their pasts has come back to haunt them. Once his intentions are finally revealed, it becomes clear that there are other forces that are hard at work to come between them. But why? As Wren tries to sort out her feelings for her previously dead fiancée, she comes closer to losing Talon. Torn between her past and her future, it feels like a triangle that is not entirely built out of love but rather something she can't put her finger on.