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Blair nominated for literary bad sex award
Tony Blair is up for an award he’d probably rather not win. Britain’s Literary Review magazine has nominated him for its annual Bad Sex in Fiction Award for his book A Journey. It’s a double knock on the former Prime...
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Stephen Lowman
| October 15, 2010; 12:28 PM ET |
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Book battle: Bush vs. Bieber
One is a former president of the United States, a man who served in the nation’s highest office for eight years, saw the country through a devastating terrorist attack, and launched wars that are still with us. The other is...
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Steven E. Levingston
| August 3, 2010; 2:28 PM ET |
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Palin tween bio delayed
Sarah Palin’s young fans will have to exercise some patience when it comes to reading an upcoming biography. The AP reports that “Speaking Up: The Sarah Palin Story,” written by Kim Washburn and aimed at the 9- to 12-year-old set,...
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Rachel Hartigan Shea
| July 19, 2010; 2:24 PM ET |
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Canada's governor general a minor character in "Love Story"
“Love Story,” Erich Segal’s mega-selling 1970 romance novel, bestowed popular culture with the unforgettably sappy line, “Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.” It’s uttered by artsy Radcliffe student Jenny Cavilleri to her preppy Harvard-educated husband Oliver Barrett...
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Rachel Hartigan Shea
| July 16, 2010; 2:00 PM ET |
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Gary Hart as Ulysses
By Stephen Lowman Lately, Gary Hart has been feeling a lot like Ulysses. At first blush, the Greek hero and former Democratic senator would seem to have little in common beyond the fact that they will both forever be associated...
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Stephen Lowman
| July 8, 2010; 11:00 AM ET |
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Jewish group condemns Gingrich for comparing Obama's policies to the Nazi and Soviet threats
By Stephen Lowman The American Jewish Committee has called on the GOP to condemn a statement in Newt Gingrich's new book that says the Obama White House is as big a danger to the United States as were Nazi Germany...
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Steven E. Levingston
| May 20, 2010; 8:13 AM ET |
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