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		<title>Blagojevich&#8217;s judge: An actor and crime novelist whose court persona masks flair for drama</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2009 03:07:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Robinson</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[CHICAGO — Judge James B. Zagel has meted out justice on the silver screen and masterminded a bank robbery in the pages of a novel.

But the veteran federal court judge who will preside over former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich&#8217;s corruption trial leaves any theatrics behind when he dons his black robe and takes the bench.
Lawyers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Harry Patch, last British veteran of World War I trench battles, dies at 111</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2009 23:01:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Barr</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[LONDON — Harry Patch, Britain&#8217;s last survivor of the trenches of World War I, was a reluctant soldier who became a powerful eyewitness to the horror of war, and a symbol of a lost generation.

Patch, who died Saturday at 111, was wounded in 1917 in the Battle of Passchendaele, which he remembered as &#8220;mud, mud [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Swedish author sued by Salinger asks NYC appeals court to let him publish his book</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 06:18:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry Neumeister</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK — A Swedish author asked a federal appeals court Thursday to reverse a judge&#8217;s ruling and let him publish a book he claims is a commentary on J.D. Salinger&#8217;s &#8220;The Catcher in the Rye.&#8221;

Fredrik Colting was blocked earlier this month from publishing in the United States his novel titled &#8220;60 Years Later: Coming [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Miss California USA may have lost her crown, but she&#8217;s gained a book deal, publisher says</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 03:53:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK — The former Miss California who was stripped of her title last month has a book deal.

Carrie Prejean will publish a memoir called &#8220;Still Standing.&#8221; Conservative book house Regnery (REG&#8217;-nur-ee) Publishing said Monday that it will release the book.
Prejean believes her crown was taken because she said she opposed gay marriage. California pageant [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Limerick mourns death of &#8216;Angela&#8217;s Ashes&#8217; author _ but debate over book smolders on</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 00:57:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shawn Pogatchnik</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[DUBLIN — Bitterness over Frank McCourt&#8217;s memoir &#8220;Angela&#8217;s Ashes&#8221; still smolders in his hometown of Limerick. Residents of the western Irish city have never agreed whether his Pulitzer-winning account of childhood survival amid soul-crushing poverty was more fact than fiction.

Limerick City Hall opened a book of condolence in memory of its most famous writer Monday, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Many key players of Apollo 11 still alive 40 years after moon landing, have books out</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 00:21:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marcia Dunn</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — In the 40 years since Apollo 11, some of the key players, most notably Neil Armstrong, have steered clear of the increasingly bright glare of the moonlight cast by the historic lunar landing. Others have embraced it. Almost all have written books detailing not only themselves but the glory days of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leading British children&#8217;s authors boycott school readings over criminal records check</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 04:46:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gregory Katz</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[LONDON — Some of Britain&#8217;s leading children&#8217;s authors are refusing to do readings in schools because of a new policy requiring them to be registered in a national database and undergo criminal background checks to prove they aren&#8217;t sex offenders.

It&#8217;s not just the $104 fee for the police checks that has outraged the authors. It&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leading UK children&#8217;s authors to boycott school readings because of new criminal records check</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 23:10:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AP</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[LONDON — Some of Britain&#8217;s leading children&#8217;s authors plan to boycott school readings when a new government rule requiring them to undergo criminal record checks takes effect in October.

The new rule is designed to protect children from sex predators. It requires anyone coming into regular contact with schoolchildren or vulnerable adults to be checked for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Study: Deadly 1918 pandemic took years to evolve, through pigs, offering lessons for today</title>
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		<dc:creator>Lauran Neergaard</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — History&#8217;s deadliest flu pandemic, in 1918, may not have made a sudden jump from birds to people after all.

New research says the pig played a big role as an influenza mixing bowl — a gene probe with lessons for tracking today&#8217;s swine flu outbreak.
The genetic ancestor hunt shows pieces of the 1918 killer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Russian writer Vasily Aksyonov, a Soviet-era dissident and exile, dies at age 76</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 04:36:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mansur Mirovalev</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[MOSCOW — Vasily Aksyonov, a prolific Russian writer and one of the last dissidents to be exiled from the Soviet Union, died Monday. He was 76.

Aksyonov died at a Moscow hospital where he was being treated after suffering a stroke last year, his widow Maya told Ekho Mosvky radio.
Aksyonov wrote more than 20 novels during [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SC first lady calls husband&#8217;s actions &#8216;inexcusable,&#8217; says she&#8217;s angry but willing to forgive</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 03:40:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meg Kinnard</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina&#8217;s first lady says Gov. Mark Sanford&#8217;s actions are &#8220;inexcusable&#8221; but she is willing to forgive him.

Jenny Sanford on Thursday made her first public statement since her husband revealed in Associated Press interviews that he believes his Argentine mistress is his soul mate but he is trying to fall back in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Publisher releases gov from contract to write fiscal conservatism book, says decision &#8216;mutual&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/publisher-releases-gov-from-contract-to-write-fiscal-conservatism-book-says-decision-mutual-98075/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:55:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AP</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford&#8217;s deal to write a book on fiscal conservatism has been terminated amid revelations about his affair with a woman from Argentina.

Publisher Adrian Zackheim said Thursday that Sentinel had agreed to release Sanford from his contract.
Zackheim called the agreement &#8220;a mutual decision.&#8221; Sanford&#8217;s spokesman declined to comment.
Zackheim says [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AP Newsbreak: Longtime John Edwards loyalist, ex-aide mum as he appears at federal courthouse</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 10:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Baker</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[RALEIGH, N.C. — An ex-aide to John Edwards who claimed he fathered a child born to the mistress of the two-time Democratic presidential candidate spent Wednesday in a federal courthouse, but declined to talk with a reporter about an investigation into his former boss.

With his lawyer at his side, Andrew Young at about 8:30 a.m. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Judge blocks US publication of book billed as sequel to classic &#8216;Catcher in the Rye&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:29:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry Neumeister</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK — A Swedish author whose new book was promoted as a sequel to J.D. Salinger&#8217;s &#8220;The Catcher in the Rye&#8221; cannot publish it in the United States because it too closely mirrors Salinger&#8217;s classic without adequate parody or critique, a judge ruled Wednesday.

U.S. District Judge Deborah Batts issued her written ruling in Manhattan [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Palestinian filmmakers use animation to tell sad Gaza tale of woman battling cancer</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:35:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diaa Hadid</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[RAMALLAH, West Bank — Her back to the camera, a Gaza woman ashamedly unbuttons her dress before a female Israeli soldier, revealing that her breasts were removed in a failed attempt to halt cancer.

In this climactic scene in &#8220;Fatenah&#8221; — the first serious Palestinian attempt at animation — the heroine flunks the security check and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AP Newsbreak: SC governor says mistress is his soul mate but he&#8217;ll try to reconcile with wife</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 04:46:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tamara Lush</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford declared his Argentine mistress his soul mate Tuesday but said he is committed to reconciling with his wife in hopes of saving his family and what is left of his political career.

Sanford, who also admitted meeting his lover more times than he had previously claimed, told The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Apologetic W.Va. reservist and face of Abu Ghraib scandal hopes biography brings redemption</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 18:39:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vicki Smith</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[KEYSER, W.Va. — More than two years since leaving her prison cell, the woman who became the grinning face of the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal spends most of her days confined to the four walls of her home.

Former Army reservist Lynndie England hasn&#8217;t landed a job in numerous tries: When one restaurant manager considered [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;May God bless you, honey&#8217;: World offers tweets, blog tributes to slain Iranian protester</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 14:39:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William J. Kole</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[EDITOR&#8217;S NOTE: Iranian authorities have barred journalists for international news organizations from reporting on the streets and ordered them to stay in their offices. This report is based on the accounts of witnesses reached in Iran and official statements carried on Iranian media.

One Twitter user hails her as &#8220;Neda the Divine.&#8221; Another vows: &#8220;You&#8217;ll be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>British release secret manual civil servants used to rehearse for World War III</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 04:06:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jill Lawless</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[LONDON — It&#8217;s October 1968, and the Soviet Union has just landed cosmonauts on the moon. Warsaw Pact troops are massing on the Austrian border, and nuclear showdown looms between east and west.

This scenario never happened — except in planning exercises by British civil servants, who meticulously rehearsed how they would govern Britain in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>4 books by Martin Luther King Jr. to be republished in 2010 under a deal brokered by his son</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 04:05:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Errin Haines</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ATLANTA — Four books that have been long out of print by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. will be published again under a deal with Beacon Press brokered by King&#8217;s youngest son.

In a statement, Dexter King called the deal &#8220;an historic partnership.&#8221;
&#8220;Beacon Press will be a dedicated public outlet for his work and will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Presiding judge says she&#8217;s troubled by similarities between &#8216;Catcher in the Rye&#8217; and new book</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 02:55:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry Neumeister</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK — A federal judge said Wednesday she found substantial similarities between J.D. Salinger&#8217;s &#8220;The Catcher In The Rye&#8221; and a new book by a Swedish author and questioned whether it should be published in the United States.

U.S. District Judge Deborah Batts commented as she listened to lawyers argue whether Salinger had a right [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Presidents and dictators attend late Gabon leader&#8217;s funeral</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 03:25:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rukmini Callimachi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[LIBREVILLE, Gabon — Hundreds of thousands of people lined the streets of Gabon&#8217;s capital Tuesday to say farewell to late President Omar Bongo, whose flag-draped coffin was paraded through the heart of a nation he was accused of pillaging during four decades of rule.

The state funeral of 73-year-old Bongo began inside the marble halls of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Indiana soldier who bought rare copy of &#8216;The Federalist&#8217; for $7 hopes auction nets thousands</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 15:13:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick Callahan</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[INDIANAPOLIS — A rare leather-bound book that played an influential role in America&#8217;s early history could bring a windfall for a soldier training for his second tour in Iraq.

Indiana National Guard Capt. Nathan Harlan was a high school junior when he paid $7 for a 1788 first edition of volume one of &#8220;The Federalist&#8221; — [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Arise, Sir Dracula! Queen awards knighthood to veteran horror actor Christopher Lee</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2009 07:08:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raphael G. Satter</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[LONDON — The Lord of the Undead is now a knight of the British Empire.

Christopher Lee, whose sonorous voice and burning black eyes made him a memorable arch-villain in films from &#8220;Dracula&#8221; to &#8220;Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith,&#8221; was given one of Britain&#8217;s highest honors Saturday by Queen Elizabeth II.
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		<title>Woman defends her book on Pope John Paul II&#8217;s friendship, says it&#8217;s not delaying beatification</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 19:49:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicole Winfield</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WARSAW, Poland — To him, she was &#8220;My Dear Dusia&#8221; and he signed his letters &#8220;Br&#8221; — short for brother.

She was one of a handful of people by his bedside when he died, and visited him in the hospital when he survived an assassination attempt.
In the cloistered universe of the Vatican, Pope John Paul II [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Polish woman defends her book on John Paul&#8217;s friendship, says it&#8217;s not delaying beatification</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 17:04:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicole Winfield</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WARSAW, Poland — To him, she was &#8220;My Dear Dusia&#8221; and he signed his letters &#8220;Br&#8221; — short for brother.

She was one of a handful of people by his bedside when he died, and visited him in the hospital when he survived an assassination attempt.
In the cloistered universe of the Vatican, Pope John Paul II [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Federal prosecutor threatens to sue publisher, alleging errors in book about terrorism cases</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 09:20:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Robinson</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[CHICAGO — The top federal prosecutor in Chicago is threatening to sue publisher HarperCollins, calling a book about the war on terrorism that focuses in part on cases he handled &#8220;a deliberate lie masquerading as the truth.&#8221;

If HarperCollins publishes the new edition of &#8220;Triple Cross&#8221; by Peter Lance this month &#8220;and it defames me or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kate Walbert&#8217;s new novel chronicles the lives of women who struggle to find their own voice</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 18:18:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Orkin Emmanuel</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;A Short History of Women&#8221; (Scribner, 237 pages, $24), Kate Walbert: This book is for any woman who has ever struggled to find her own voice; to make sense of being a mother, wife, daughter and lover. But it is not only for women.

The novel portrays the female experience through five generations of women.
Walbert begins [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Angel Island, the &#8216;Ellis Island of the West,&#8217; threatened by California budget cuts</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2009 02:59:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juliana Barbassa</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ANGEL ISLAND STATE PARK, Calif. — Schoolchildren crowd into the barracks of this former immigration station, poring over poems of sadness and longing carved into the walls by the million-plus immigrants who passed through the &#8220;Ellis Island of the West&#8221; decades ago.

Some of their ancestors were among the mostly Chinese immigrants detained on this island [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Justice Thomas earns more than $300,000 in royalties, Scalia&#8217;s new book nets nearly $100,000</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2009 01:32:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AP</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Justice Clarence Thomas took in more than $300,000 in royalties for his autobiography last year, far more than he earned as a member of the Supreme Court. Justice Antonin Scalia received nearly $100,000 for his new book.

Thomas now has made roughly $1.5 million from &#8220;My Grandfather&#8217;s Son,&#8221; the 2007 book that traces his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>North Korea silent about US journalists&#8217; trial amid tensions over regime&#8217;s nuclear defiance</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 09:47:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Foreman</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea stayed silent Friday about the fate of two U.S. journalists who were supposed to go on trial a day earlier on charges they entered the country illegally and engaged in &#8220;hostile acts&#8221; — allegations that could draw a 10-year sentence in a labor camp.

Laura Ling and Euna Lee, reporters [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sotomayor dealt with media access, copyright issues as judge, was reversed in online case</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 07:49:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse J. Holland</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — As a federal judge, Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor dealt with two important media issues — copyrights and access — and was reversed by higher courts when she ruled that freelance writers need not be compensated for online use of their published work, documents released Thursday show.

As a federal trial judge, Sotomayor ruled [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Speaking up: Toni Morrison helps launch free speech organization</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 11:51:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hillel Italie</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK — The setting was divine — a duplex on the Upper East Side. The featured speaker, Nobel laureate Toni Morrison.

The subjects: sex, violence and profanity.
In other words, the stuff that books are banned for.
Some 50 publishers, writers and other First Amendment supporters gathered over cocktails Wednesday night to launch the Free Speech Leadership [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chinese researchers say construction decided fate of schools that collapsed in Sichuan quake</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 00:17:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Audra Ang</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[BEIJING — The publication is obscure and the language technical, but the findings are simple: schools in Sichuan collapsed more easily than government buildings in last year&#8217;s massive quake because they were not as well built.

That politically sensitive conclusion is one of the most startling in a book by architects and engineers dispatched by the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Gramps: Marching across France with the Ninth Air Force, supporting Patton&#8217;s army</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 15:10:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy Benac</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Surely, Stanley Dunham was gazing skyward 65 years ago, on D-Day.

Dunham, the man whom Barack Obama would one day call Gramps, was a 26-year-old supply sergeant stationed near the English Channel with the U.S. Army Air Forces when the invasion of Normandy at last began. Six weeks later, he crossed the Channel, too, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>20 years after bloodbath, Tiananmen democracy movement battles a state-enforced amnesia</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 01:33:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles Hutzler</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[BEIJING — As a young poet, Cui Weiping was not much interested in politics. But she says she could never shake the image of her husband returning home on a June night 20 years ago, his pants mottled with the blood of people shot by the Chinese army.

Now Cui is speaking out, trying to rescue [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Gramps: Marching across France with the Ninth Air Force, supporting Patton&#8217;s Army</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2009 21:18:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy Benac</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Surely, Stanley Dunham was gazing skyward 65 years ago, on D-Day.

Dunham, the man whom Barack Obama would one day call Gramps, was a 26-year-old supply sergeant stationed near the English Channel with the U.S. Army Air Forces when the invasion of Normandy at last began. Six weeks later, he crossed the Channel, too, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Swine flu scare awakens echoes of fearsome 1918 flu epidemic that killed multitudes</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2009 00:54:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jerry Schwartz</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The calendar says 2009, but our fears say it is 1918.

The front page tells us about Mexico, and a new strain of influenza that has killed more than a dozen people there and spread to the United States and Europe and Asia.
But our dire imaginations take us back to another contagion in another century. Victims [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Slain men in alleged Bolivia assassination plot: mercenaries or victims?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2009 22:29:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paola Flores</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[SANTA CRUZ, Bolivia — Airlifted in from Bolivia&#8217;s western highlands, some two dozen elite officers in green helmets and flak jackets entered the Las Americas Hotel just before 4 a.m., disabled its surveillance cameras and stealthily made for the fourth floor.

A bomb exploded. After 15 minutes of gunfire, three men were dead in their underwear [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Al-Qaida used free Hotmail, simplistic codes, almanac to prep for alleged attack</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2009 05:48:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pamela Hess</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — In the days following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, alleged al-Qaida operations mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed intended to use his free Hotmail account to direct a U.S.-based operative to carry out an attack, according to a guilty plea agreement filed by Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri in federal court.

The document shows how al-Qaida, at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>History revised: Book says FDR tried to save Jewish refugees, not turn them away before WWII</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 22:36:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Pyle</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK — A new book disputes widely held assumptions that President Franklin D. Roosevelt was insensitive to the plight of European Jews under the Nazis, and instead concludes that he tried to arrange resettlement for thousands of refugees in the late 1930s, only to be thwarted by his own State Department.

The book, &#8220;Refugees and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ursula Askham Fanthorpe, English poet inspired by hospital work, dies at 79</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 21:44:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Barr</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[LONDON — U.A. Fanthorpe, a highly regarded English poet who was first inspired by the human tragedy she saw in a neurological hospital, has died at age 79.

She died Tuesday in a hospice near her home in Wotton-under-Edge in western England, said her publisher, Peterloo Poets. No cause of death was given.
Her late-starting career was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pithy, popular Carol Ann Duffy chosen as Britain&#8217;s first female poet laureate</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 18:09:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AP</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[LONDON — The centuries-old post of British poet laureate, bard to kings and queens, has been held by William Wordsworth, Alfred Lord Tennyson and Ted Hughes — but never, until Friday, by a woman.

Carol Ann Duffy said she hesitated before accepting the job, which brings a high public profile and an expectation to rhapsodize about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Acclaimed poet Craig Arnold missing on Japanese island while writing about volcanoes</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 17:33:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mead Gruver</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[CHEYENNE, Wyo. — An acclaimed poet who had been working on a book about volcanoes disappeared five days ago during a scouting expedition on a tropical island in southern Japan.

Craig Arnold, 41, is an assistant professor of English at the University of Wyoming. He went missing Monday during a visit to a volcano on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New unflattering A-Rod biography reportedly says he may have used steroids in high school</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 09:27:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK — A new, unflattering biography of Alex Rodriguez reportedly says he may have used steroids as early as high school and even after he joined the New York Yankees. Rodriguez admitted in February to using steroids while with the Texas Rangers from 2001-03, but insisted he stopped before he was traded to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New unflattering A-Rod biography reportedly says he may have used steroids in high school</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 09:17:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ronald Blum</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK — A new, unflattering biography of Alex Rodriguez reportedly says he may have used steroids as early as high school and even after he joined the New York Yankees. Rodriguez admitted in February to using steroids while with the Texas Rangers from 2001-03, but insisted he stopped before he was traded to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DNA tests confirm remains found in Utah wilderness those of vagabond poet who vanished in &#8217;30s</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 08:02:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SALT LAKE CITY — Researchers said Thursday that a skeleton found last year in Utah&#8217;s redrock country is that of a 20-year-old artist, poet and wanderer who disappeared in the 1930s and has been the stuff of Western lore and Navajo legend ever since.

The bones of Everett Ruess, a self-described vagabond from California, were discovered [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flu outbreak leads to six-figure deal for book on viruses</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 03:46:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hillel Italie</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK — The swine flu outbreak has boosted sales for an acclaimed history of the 1918 pandemic, and helped biologist Nathan Wolfe get a six-figure deal for a book about viruses.

As of Thursday afternoon, John M. Barry&#8217;s &#8220;The Great Influenza,&#8221; which came out five years ago, had climbed to No. 99 on Amazon.com&#8217;s best-seller [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A-Rod homers in intrasquad game, mum on latest steroids allegations</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 02:37:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK — Alex Rodriguez won&#8217;t talk about the latest allegations that he may have used steroids when he was a highly touted high school player and performance-enhancers while playing for the New York Yankees.

Rodriguez says &#8220;I&#8217;m not going there,&#8221; when asked to comment on the report in Thursday&#8217;s Daily News, which quoted excerpts from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Funny stuff! Amy Sedaris writing follow-up to best-selling &#8216;I Like You&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 23:31:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK — Amy Sedaris is preparing more literary laughter.

The actress and comedian is working on a follow-up to her best seller, &#8220;I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence.&#8221; The new book, currently untitled, will come out in 2010 and will again feature &#8220;her unique approach to home life through the use of fun, long-forgotten [...]]]></description>
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