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Lindsey Vonn rises to the occasion, wins downhill (Connecticut Post)

WHISTLER, British Columbia — It looked a ski race but unfolded almost like literature, with a grab-you beginning tethered to the page-turner end.

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Lindsey Vonn rises to the occasion, wins downhill (Connecticut Post)

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Writers hit out at cuts plan in latest chapter of literature funding row (The Scotsman)

A WRITERS’ association representing 700 Scottish authors has weighed into the escalating row over the funding of Scottish literature, launching a scathing attack on new pr

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Biff America: Remaining true to the left - and the Red Sox (Vail Daily)

I’m a liberal. I was one before I could vote. I think my progressive beginnings were caused by the fact that my parents were conservative and I wanted to drive them crazy

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BOOK REVIEW: Read "Fences" in celebration of Black History Month (The Milpitas Post)

The play “Fences” opened in 1985 at the Yale Repertory Theatre with James Earl Jones as the lead character, Troy Maxson.

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Funding dramas (Spike the Meanjin Blog)

There has been a bit of a flurry of debate ( Simons , Rundle , Salusinszky ) following Quadrant ’s drop in funding this year, and their consequent circulation of a letter which asserts that the during the years of the Howard government, the literature board of the Australia Council has never reduced the funding of ‘overtly left-wing publications like Meanjin , Overland and Australian Book Review …

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McInally’s books fetch $550K (The Cincinnati Enquirer)

Ex-Bengal Pat McInally’s collection of children’s literature brought in a total of $551,454 last week at an auction held by Calabasas, Calif.-based Profiles in History, the company says.

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