| CNN.com delivers up-to-the-minute news and information on the latest top stories, weather, entertainment, politics and more. | Fat Tuesday | | With Carnival underway and Fat Tuesday on March 4, it's high season for reflecting on the virtues of New Orleans. |
| Facebook boast | | The former head of a private preparatory school in Miami, Florida is out an $80,000 discrimination settlement after his daughter boasted about it on Facebook. |
| Kickstarter | | The crowdfunding model, in which entrepreneurs seek online pledges to finance their pet projects, appears to be alive and well. |
| Chicagoland | | Robert Redford, who achieved stardom in feature films starting with "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" in 1969 and won an Academy Award for directing "Ordinary People" in 1980, has moved into the world of television production. |
| Oscar Pistorius | | The drama in the murder trial of South Africa's one-time golden boy Oscar Pistorius promises to be as intense Tuesday as it was on its opening day. |
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