Samuel Johnson

                   

Five of the best in line for the Guardian first book award

guardian.co.uk
31-Oct-2008
        

An "ambitious, varied and incredibly individual" shortlist for the Guardian first book award is announced today. The five works include a history of 20th-century classical music, a novelistic memoir of a Soviet-era romance and...

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Here comes the bride's sister

baltimoresun.com
31-Oct-2008 5 related
        

Anne Hathaway gives a powerful performance in 'Rachel Getting Married' **** Samuel Johnson famously remarked that a second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Director Jonathan Demme and screenwriter Jenny Lumet,...

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Library Ghosts: International

britannica.com
31-Oct-2008 1 related
        

Here with the final post in my series of haunted libraries for Halloween. Although only a few foreign haunted libraries are listed here, I suspect someone with multilingual talents and access to primary print sources could turn...

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Oat Straw, to Ease Your Election Fears

newwest.net
30-Oct-2008
        

Two things can be found taped to the refrigerator door in my house. One is the latest dog-centric New Yorker cartoon. This week, the cartoon depicts two dogs. One is lying on a couch, face up, while the second dog, sitting on a...

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Long lines in Florida as early voting surges nationwide (Feature)

monstersandcritics.com
29-Oct-2008 2 related
        

Long lines in Florida as early voting surges nationwide (Feature) Talkback Add your comment (no registration required) Obama will prolong the recession he helped create.Oct 29th, 2008 - 22:59:40 Michael Barone has written a...

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Millennials are different? Pardon me while I retch

itworldcanada.com
29-Oct-2008
        

People in their 20s tend to be ambitious, love communicating and are enchanted by new ideas. But this is hardly a new phenomenon, so I don’t buy the notion that the 20-somethings of today are somehow fundamentally different

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An Obama Defector

arewelumberjacks.blogspot.com
29-Oct-2008
        

Wendy Button, an Obama speech writer, sees the light:...The final straw came the other week when Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher (a.k.a Joe the Plumber) asked a question about higher taxes for small businesses. Instead of...

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Reading Habits

christianitytoday.com
29-Oct-2008
        

Literature Books & Culture, September/October 2008 Reading Habits by Timothy Larsen Ah, to have been a reader two centuries ago, in a golden age of English literature. But the thrust of William St. Clair's The Reading Nation in...

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Obama's Speechwriter Opens Eyes, Votes McCain

teapottantrums.typepad.com
29-Oct-2008
        

Found on Ravelry, but originally posted at The Daily Beast: So Long, Democrats by Wendy Button October 28, 2008 | 6:55am A speechwriter for Obama, Edwards, and Clinton on why she’s voting McCain. Since I started writing...

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Think Millennials will Change the Workplace? Ha.

pcworld.com
26-Oct-2008 1 related
        

Johna Till Johnson, Network World Are young workers today fundamentally different? It's trendy these days to describe the so-called "millennial" generation -- those born between 1989 and 2000 -- as somehow fundamentally...

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