| Communist jokes | | The Economist - 6 Hours ago | | JOKES under communism were not just a welcome contrast to the dreariness of everyday life; they also helped undermine it. For example. How do you deal with mice in the Kremlin? Put up a sign saying collective |
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| Paperbacks: The Lodger, by Charles Nicholl | | The Independent - 19 Hours ago | | Search Search Go Independent.co.uk Web Bookmark & Share In 1612, 'one Mr Shakespeare' gave some boring evidence in a small-claims case about an unpaid dowry in his former landlord's family. From this, | | | | Add Comment |
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| Paperbacks: And Now On Radio 4, by Simon Elmes | | The Independent - 19 Hours ago | | Search Search Go Independent.co.uk Web Bookmark & Share If Radio 4 defines the nation â?? or a certain section of it â?? what defines Radio 4? This neat little guide is as good an explanation as any, | | | | Add Comment |
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| [Book Review] 'On the Lower Frequencies' | | OhmyNews - 13 Hours ago | | Subtitled ',' this collection of material from the photocopied zines 'Scam' and 'Turd-Filled Donut' covers Erick Lyle's life as a grassroots musician and activist during the final years of the 20th and | | | | Add Comment |
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| 'Beijing Coma' | | New York Times - 15 Hours ago | | Ma Jians new novel, Beijing Coma, reads like a curious amalgam of Jung Changs epic Wild Swans (about three generations of her Chinese family), Jean-Dominique Baubys memoir The Diving Bell and the Butterfly | | | | Add Comment |
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| Claim of Privilege | | Monsters and Critics - 15 Hours ago | | With a title like that, it sounds like the book would be about American Culture. But Barry Siegel has written : A Mysterious Plane Crash, a Landmark Supreme Court Case, and the Rise of State Secrets. | | | | all 1 news articles >> Add Comment |
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| Book Review of Handbook of RAFT Polymerization | | American Chemical Society - 16 Hours ago | | Reversible additionfragmentation chain transfer (RAFT) polymerization has only been developed over the past decade, but has quickly found wide application in polymer synthesis, spawning many new polymer | | | | Add Comment |
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| A Thousand Splendid Suns - by Khaled Hosseini | | TheCelebrityCafe.com - 16 Hours ago | | by Khaled Hosseini Step into the shoes of two Afghan women. Like Hosseini's first novel, The Kite Runner, his second, , follows the path of telling stories about Afghanistan through the eyes of native | | | | Add Comment |
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| Mount Lebanons children | | The Economist - 7/3/2008 | | ELDERLY persons are a treasure we squander in cajoleries and blandishments, laments Amin Maalouf as he explores the history of his Lebanese family without the benefit of the memories of the old aunts | | | | Add Comment |
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| Bear In Mind These Dead, By Susan McKay | | The Independent - 7/3/2008 | | Search Search Go Independent.co.uk Web Bookmark & Share Susan McKay's title comes from a poem by John Hewitt which cautions against using 'that loaded word, Remember', which every Irish person has | | | | Add Comment |
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| Urban squalor in Victorian London | | Telegraph - 7/2/2008 | | Gillian Tindall reviews The Blackest Streets by Sarah Wise Towards the end of the 19th century Charles Booth, the maverick businessman and statistician who is not to be confused with the Salvation Army | | | | Add Comment |
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| Book Review: Marching Toward Hell | | Palestine Chronicle - 7/3/2008 | | Marching Toward Hell â?? America and Islam after Iraq. Michael Scheuer. Free Press (Simon & Schuster), New York, 2008. Michael Scheuerâ??s new work â??Marching Toward Hellâ? is very clear with its | | | | Add Comment |
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