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Getting Boys Into Books Is Goal For Flint Native - Detroit Free Press
it's not every day that you get all the scieszka men -- or any of them -- together to celebrate their famous brother jon's authorial antics, but that day is coming soon. in a homecoming stop on his book tour for his kid-friendly memoir "knucklehead ...
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'world Is Flat' Author Does It Again
after three pulitzer prizes, four best-selling books and a couple of decades as a reporter and columnist for the new york times, thomas friedman has his role down pat. mixing fact-heavy reporting with a conversational tone, he produces cogent analyses of the most important developments of our time.
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Inside Slant
a slow-motion firing more than eight months in the making came to a memorable conclusion when raiders owner al davis fired coach lane kiffin tuesday "for cause" and elevated line coach tom cable as the interim head coach.
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Attitude Goddess Lea Gay's Secrets To Success - News.com.au
every time you want something to happen in life you should write it down as if it were happening, says lea gay. that way it will happen, she predicts. but i'm too busy writing down what she is telling me about her new book, attitude goddess . but ...
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Annie Leibovitz: Nothing Left To Hide - Times Online
annie leibovitz is marching towards destiny with a giant stride – and today it’s her fate to be photographed for this magazine. it’s not a thing she welcomes. the most famous female portrait photographer in the world is about to be scrutinised ...
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Midwest Independent Booksellers Say Times Are Good For Regional Books
"historically, books do ok in bad times. it depends on how bad the misery gets," says bookseller david unowsky.
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Racing Into The Record Books
after two delays, peppers pride raced into the record books saturday with her 17th consecutive victory at zia park.
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Shirley Maclaine, With Grace And Gusto - Cbs News
it may have been fate that caused the lead in "the pajama game" to be injured, allowing a young understudy named shirley maclaine to take her place — and be launched on a decades-long, award-winning career. (cbs) "on the way to the hospital ...
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Punk's Shirley Temple Should Be Happy - Times Online
it is easy to sympathise with clare grogan's rationale for becoming a children's author. if you don't like what the kids are reading, write a book for them yourself. in grogan's case the creative impulse came when she was flicking through a novel for ...
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Peppers Pride's 17th Straight Win Breaks Record
hobbs, n.m. . it was an easy win for peppers pride. about three lengths, in fact. with the victory saturday in a six-furlong allowance race at zia park, the new mexico thoroughbred put herself into the record books. she has now won 17 times in as many starts, setting a modern north american record. peppers pride crossed the line in 1:10.20. "we just tried to get away well and ...
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Where The Action Is: Sunday's Key Nfl Line Moves
palmer is worth more to cincinnati’s line when it is playing an elite team like dallas, according to korner. he says if the bengals were playing a weaker opponent, palmer’s value would be much lower than the five points this week.
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Another Scoop For Tina Brown As She Swaps Print For Web - Financial Times
the struggling us magazine industry is losing one of its biggest cheerleaders to the web as tina brown trades the glossy pages and lengthy essays of her past career for the hyperlinks and blog entries of a new site called the daily beast. the former ...
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Red Sox Sitting Pretty - Espn.com
as the red sox were taking batting practice, i sat with a major league scout who's followed the red sox-angels series. his evaluation? "i think it's over," the scout said. he meant the series. he said the red sox looked better prepared, and overall ...
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Treasury Now Must Figure Out How To Make Bailout Work
the bailout bill that president george w. bush quickly signed into law friday must do what financial experts have been unable to do for the past year - put a dollar value on mortgage-related assets that no one wants, move them off the books of ailing banks and unlock the frozen credit markets.
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Fall Foreword, Or The Big Books Of Autumn
book-clubbers will tell you that their best attendance invariably comes in the fall. the reason, i think, is that echo, like an old circadian rhythm, we carry from our school days.
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Channel 56 Ending Series On Race - Detroit Free Press
kingberry productions, along with detroit public television (wtvs-tv, channel 56), will present the fourth in a series of prime-time, one-hour telecasts on race relations in metro detroit at 9 p.m. wednesday. "bridging the racial divide iv" will be ...
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International Executive Helicopter Service Takes Flight With Aag ... - Forbes
orlando, fla., oct. 5 /prnewswire/ -- associated aircraft group (aag) today announced the launch of a new executive helicopter service called aag global(tm) that can carry passengers with speed and comfort to destinations around the world. the ...
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Fall Foreword, Or The Big Books Of Autumn
book-clubbers will tell you that their best attendance invariably comes in the fall. the reason, i think, is that echo, like an old circadian rhythm, we carry from our school days. it nudges us to place a short stack...
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Town Featured In Twilight Books Series Sees Tourism Boom
by whitney malkin forks, wash. — pounding rain and heavy mist are constant in this timber town, where logging’s decline left a graveyard of rusting timber mills and unemployment. businesses shut down. parts of the local high school were condemned. families started to drift away. until an unlikely cast of vampires breathed new life into the town. "i fell in love with it," says 18-year-old ...
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Up, Up, And Away! - Boston Globe
the boston college campus looks its best this time of year - elegant gothic buildings around meticulously manicured quadrangles shaded by lush linden trees about to turn majestic shades of gold. it certainly impresses high school junior sidney wise ...
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