A good life (BBC News)
The creator of Tom and Barbara Good among those passed away
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A Good Life now over: Noted deaths of the past month (BBC News)
Our regular column covering the passing of significant - but lesser-reported - people of the past month.
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The back stories are the best stories (Honolulu Advertiser)
Former journalist Peggy Marsh had been quietly working on her novel for more than a decade when she was discovered by a publisher who was scouring the South for new authors. Starring a heroine named Pansy O'Hara, Marsh's manuscript was a theatrical, longing ode to the lost, pre-Civil War era in the Deep South. Its working title: "Tomorrow Is Another Day."
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On the box (Parkes Champion-Post)
US PGA Championship. Second round. Fox Sports 1, 3-9am. Pre-season friendly. Ajax v Arsenal.
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TripAdvisor Tells Tale of 10 Cities Where the Pen is Mightier Than the Sword (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
TripAdvisor®, the world's largest travel community, today announced the top 10 literary destinations in the world, according to TripAdvisor editors. These locations have either been the home or inspiration to many of the greatest writers in Western civilization, and feature remarkable attractions as tributes to those authors, for travelers to enjoy today.
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Seattlest Trivia: August Wrapup (Seattlest)
First things first: Yesterday's pre-quiz trivia question , worth $50 in bar credit. What city fills in this blank, and why? Seattle, Hong Kong, ________, Bangkok, San Francisco A couple of people guessed that they were the cities Bruce Lee had lived in, but they gave different answers for the blank. Great thought, but wrong. The correct answer: Sydney. Why? They're the floors in the ...
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Nigeria: Wading Through Omoluabi Matrix (AllAfrica.com)
As the year 2014 approaches all the constituent nations within the Nigerian Union should be encouraged to prepare for our centennial celebration with a tonality of introspection and sobriety.
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Cenk Uygur: Why is No One Calling the Anthrax Suspect a Terrorist? (HuffingtonPost)
If you don't believe that they're not calling him a terrorist because he's white, let me ask you this question -- what if his name was Sheik al-Abdullah Muhammad?
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The Great Writer Who Buried Communism (The Moscow Times)
At Moscow's Donskoi Monastery on Wednesday, Alexander Solzhenitsyn was laid to rest. He was undoubtedly Russia's most internationally renowned modern writer.
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