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Dan Brown: Happy 'Inferno' publication day
Happy publication day to Dan Brown, whose latest Robert Langdon thriller, "Inferno," officially hits shelves Tuesday. Online, it's already declared its dominance: It's Amazon's No. 1 bestselling book -- thanks to preorders, it has been in the website's...
Tags: Harry Potter (fictional character), Angels & Demons (movie), The Da Vinci Code (movie), Entertainment, Amazon.com Inc.
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Was the Revolutionary War a reactionary war? 'Bunker Hill' reconsiders history.
It turns out the modern incarnation of the tea party may have more in common with the original Boston hell-raisers than people think. Americans have long romanticized the events leading to the Battle of Bunker Hill and the start of the American...
Tags: U.S. Congress, George Washington, Lexington (Lexington, Virginia), Tea Party Movement, American Revolutionary War (1775-1783)
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COLUMN-Poor little rich kids-Chrystia Freeland
ReutersBy Chrystia Freeland NEW YORK, May 9 (Reuters) - If you doubt that we live in a winner-take-all economy and that education is the trump card, consider the vast amounts the affluent spend to teach their offspring. We see it anecdotally in the soaring fees...Tags: Teachers, Teaching and Learning, Newspaper and Magazine, Columbia University, Thomson Corporation
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Hildebrand to perform at St. Mark's on May 19
David Hildebrand will present a concert of Music of the War of 1812 in America, Sunday, May 19, at 4 p.m. at the St. Mark’s Fellowship Center, 18313 Lappans Road, Boonsboro. Call 301-582-0417 or go to www.stmarkslappans.org for more information...
Tags: Memorial Day, Diabetes, Physical Fitness and Exercise, War of 1812
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PASSINGS: Dallas Willard, Jack Butler, Fredrick McKissack
Dallas Willard Influential Christian philosopher taught at USC for 47 years Dallas Willard, 77, an influential Christian philosopher who taught at USC for 47 years and chaired the philosophy department in the early 1980s, died Wednesday in Woodland...Tags: Terry Bradshaw, National Football League, Champ Bailey, Family, Philosophy
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Disney unveils plan for first animated Marvel film
The studio behind the animated fantasies "Bambi," "Dumbo" and '"The Lion King" has a new kind of hero tale on the way — a Marvel Comics one. Walt Disney Animation Studios on Thursday announced plans to release "Big Hero 6," an action-comedy inspired...
Tags: Toy Story (movie), Despicable Me 2 (movie), Arts and Culture, Fine Artists, Tarzan (movie)
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To the Class of 2013: Resist simplicity
Members of the Class of 2013, I salute you. As everyone keeps telling you, you are graduating at a difficult and even frightening time. I wish it were otherwise — that my generation was bequeathing you a finer world. We aren't. The world that...
Tags: Graduation, Class Conflict, Yale University, Ray Bradbury, Abraham Lincoln
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Review: "Bunker Hill" by Nathaniel Philbrick
"I cannot pretend to describe the horror of the scene," Adjutant John Waller, a British soldier, would write of the Battle of Bunker Hill. He nevertheless tries. Inside the fortifications, as the British overwhelmed the provincial forces, "'twas streaming...Tags: George Washington, Entertainment Events, Awards and Prizes, Armed Conflicts, Boston
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Review: "Forty-one False Starts" by Janet Malcolm
Janet Malcolm is not an art critic or a literary critic. She's a journalist, and I don't say that with condescension. She's a journalist the way Joan Didion is — the kind who recognizes, as she put it in the first sentence of "The Journalist and the...Tags: Casablanca (movie), Arts and Culture, Forest Hills, Fine Artists, Artists
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Dan Brown's "Inferno" novel in hot demand ahead of release
ReutersLONDON, May 13 (Reuters) - Booksellers are predicting that "Da Vinci Code" author Dan Brown's latest title "Inferno" will become the biggest-selling book of the year, ahead of its release on Tuesday. Sales of the book, which sees the return of...Tags: Arts and Culture, Harry Potter (fictional character), The Da Vinci Code (movie), The New York Times, Literature
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Editor's choice: "The Humanity Project" by Jean Thompson
Jean Thompson is one of my favorite fiction writers, and her new novel, "The Humanity Project," didn't let me down. A mutual friend introduced me to one of her early story collections — "Who Do You Love," which was a National Book Award finalist... -
Michelle Tea turns a radical eye on YA in 'Mermaid in Chelsea Creek'
NEW YORK — Michelle Tea has been a horoscope writer, an activist and a sex worker. She never graduated from college, but she has written a novel, a poetry collection and four memoirs — one of which, "Valencia," is being made into an...Tags: Arts and Culture, Chelsea (Manhattan, New York), Fine Artists, Artists, Manhattan (New York City)
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