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Covers Contest: Heavenly Bodies

Fri, 11 Jun 2010 04:15:52 +0000

This month, the Book Club is reading Shirley Hazzard’s “The Transit of Venus.” This fine novel takes its name from an infrequent celestial event wherein the planet Venus passes between the earth and the sun….

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Woman Seeks “Jessica Alba” Makeover To Win Back Lover

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 08:36:06 +0000

SHANGHAI (Reuters) – A Chinese woman is seeking extensive plastic surgery to look like U.S. actress Jessica Alba, mainly because she hopes to win back her boyfriend who she said always wished she looked more like the Hollywood star.

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Woman Seeks “Jessica Alba” Makeover To Win Back Lover

Sun, 07 Feb 2010 08:48:18 +0000

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Discipline And Punish And William Blake

Mon, 25 Jan 2010 20:38:56 +0000

I remember fondly the newsday that brought the story of a gaggle of unruly teen-age vandals paying for their misuse of Robert Frost’s historic house by giving reluctant audience to the Frost scholar and poet…

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