All good, no evil in 'Sound of Music' role

07/17/11 Variety is too weak a word for Lisa Howard's recent roles. The actor best known for originating the role of Rona Lisa Peretti in "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee" on Broadway will play Mother Abbess in "The Sound of Music" at the Pittsburgh CLO Tuesday through July 31. She last played Paulette in "Legally Blonde" at the Muny in St. Louis.

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Freeing up Brown's possible opponent

07/19/11 By passing over Elizabeth Warren as head of a new consumer financial protection agency, President Barack Obama has freed the Harvard Law professor to possibly run against U.S. Sen. Scott Brown.

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Leaving D.C., Warren ponders run for Senate

07/19/11 Elizabeth Warren, a Harvard Law School professor whose consumer protection work has made her a favorite among liberal activists, will spend early August assessing whether to try to unseat Senator Scott Brown, an adviser said.

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