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Renewed: NBC has ordered a second season of its “American Gladiators” revival.
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Archives: The Southwestern Writers Collection at Texas State University-San Marcos has purchased the archives of Cormac McCarthy, 74, author of such novels as “No Country for Old Men,” “All the Pretty Horses” and “The Road.”
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The smile: Experts at Heidelberg University in Germany say they have found dated notes in a book from 1503 confirming that Lisa Gherardini, the wife of Florentine merchant Francesco del Giocondo, was the model for Leonardo da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa” portrait.