"There's this very real understanding that the situation is dire, " Kate Suski said.

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Supermodel and Michigan native Kate Upton is back on the cover this year.

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This one is the tale of two sisters: Isabel (Kate Hudson), who flies to Paris to visit her sister Roxy (Naomi Watts), who has married a dodgy Frenchman.

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And she's been, by her own description, living a normal life, and gentle, poetic insight into normal life is mostly what fills up the two CDs of this latest Kate Bush album.

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The Philippines is taking a risk with this move, says the BBC's Kate McGeown in Manila.

BBC: Philippines 'to take South China Sea row to court'

Kate Middleton, also featured on this list last year, is still a lady-in-waiting.

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"This is a very bittersweet goodbye for me because the kids are already missing it, " Kate Gosselin said.

CNN: Jon and Kate close out 'Plus Eight'

Some have called it callow, but I implore you to go back and see Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet in this movie and watch how dazzlingly spontaneous and multi-faceted their chemistry is.

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Ms. KATE KENDALL (Executive Director, National Center for Lesbian Rights): I do not believe this is a state that will endorse that constitutional amendment.

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Kate Middleton has married her prince, she has become a duchess (not a princess - this is Windsor reality rather than a fairytale) and now, like so many new royal entrants before her, she is being "launched" abroad.

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