The Art of Battle (Edmunds Inside Line)

Duel at dawn.

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The Art of Battle (Edmunds Inside Line)

Rock and Pop Listings (New York Times)

POP.

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Rock and Pop Listings (New York Times)

The Decade in Literature (The Online NewsHour)

Books in the aughts were not all for naught: there were mega novels (like Jonathan Franzen’s “The Corrections” and Junot Diaz’s “The Brief, Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao”), a boom in book clubs, and the birth of the e-reader.

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Former Gitmo detainees help al-Qaida grow in Yemen (AP via Yahoo! News)

As a prisoner at Guantanamo, Said Ali al-Shihri said he wanted freedom so he could go home to Saudi Arabia and work at his family’s furniture store.

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Publishers Look to China for the Next Bestseller (Newsweek)

In recent years, China has increasingly flaunted its soft power, winning notice for its bold contemporary art and epic films featuring flying swordsmen. But when it comes to literature, the country is still struggling to make its mark. In 2008, 275,000 titles were published in China and 6.9 billion books printed, generating sales of €7.5 billion

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The noughties in literature (BBC News)

The tale of a wizard, a symbologist and all the other trends in literature throughout the 2000s.

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Special Notice. (The Harvard Crimson)

GERMAN.- A native teacher from a leading school gives thorough instruction in grammar, literature and conversation.

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UK honours F1 king, Status Quo stars, but bankers out (AFP via Yahoo! News)

Formula One champ Jenson Button and two veteran Status Quo rockers received gongs in Britain’s New Year’s Honours List Thursday — while bankers and lawmakers were almost absent after a year of shame.

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Formula One king, Status Quo honoured (AFP via Yahoo! News)

Formula One champ Jenson Button and two veteran Status Quo rockers received gongs in the New Year’s Honours List Thursday — while bankers and lawmakers were almost absent after a year of shame.

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Malaysian court rules Christians can use ‘Allah’ (AP via Yahoo! News)

A Malaysian court ruled Thursday that Christians have the constitutional right to use the word Allah to refer to God, striking down a government ban as illegal.

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