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What Haruki Murakami talks about 
(unknown author) via www.sfgate.com on Mon, 27 Oct. 2008
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SF Chronicle interview with Haruki Murakami, author of "What I Talk About When I Talk About Running".
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Election 08: Voting McCain Is Backing Bush 
(unknown author) via The Nation: Top Stories on Mon, 27 Oct. 2008
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Nichols in the Nation on G. W. Bush voting early for John McCain
John Nichols Barack Obama has gotten plenty of help from the GOP this past week. But the biggest boost came from an unlikely source, George W. Bush
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Palins True North - Timothy Egan - Op-Extra Columnist - Opinion - New York Times Blog 
(unknown author) via egan.blogs.nytimes.com on Thu, 04 Sep. 2008
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NYT op-ed blog on how weird is Alaska.
They say Alaska is what America used to be – true enough, in my experience. But it may not be what America wants to be.
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It's Palin's Party, Not McCain's 
(unknown author) via www.thenation.com on Tue, 02 Sep. 2008
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John Nichols on Sarah Palin: she pwnz McCain.
Veep pick's extremism is more in sync with party platform than the presidential nominee.
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Will bookworms get their teeth into the Sony Reader? - Times Online 
(unknown author) via technology.timesonline.co.uk on Tue, 02 Sep. 2008
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Times on the new Sony Reader
It is roughly the size of a paperback, has a leather cover (or is it fake –and in the digital age, does anyone care?) and comes with 200 megabytes ofmemory, enough to store 160 books of average length. That may not make muchof a dent in the British Library stacks, but it would probably satisfy eventhe most voracious
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Fresh revelations about Sarah Palin delight Democrats - Times Online 
(unknown author) via www.timesonline.co.uk on Tue, 02 Sep. 2008
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Nice summary from overseas.
A stream of fresh revelations about Sarah Palin, the Republican
vice-presidential choice, continued to unnerve her party and delight
Democrats today, including allegations that she once belonged to a fringe
Alaskan political party that w
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Gallup Daily: Obama Hits 50% for First Time 
(unknown author) via www.gallup.com on Tue, 02 Sep. 2008
Gallup Poll Daily tracking from Aug. 30 through Sept. 1, finds Barack Obama leading the race for president with his highest share of support to date. Fully half of national registered voters now favor Obama for president, while 42% back John McCain.
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Mayor Palin: A Rough Record -- Printout -- TIME 
(unknown author) via www.time.com on Tue, 02 Sep. 2008
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Sarah Palin, Book Burner
As mayor, Palin continued to inject religious beliefs into her policy at times. "She asked the library how she could go about banning books," he says, because some voters thought they had inappropriate language in them. "The librarian was aghast." The librarian, Mary Ellen Baker, couldn't be reached for comment, but news r
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Sarah Palin’s Big, Sleazy Safari | Election 2008 | AlterNet 
(unknown author) via www.alternet.org on Tue, 02 Sep. 2008
Her most recent "victory" came on Aug. 26, when Alaska's voters defeated Measure 2, an initiative that would have banned hunting wolves from airplanes for sport.Palin organized a campaign against Measure 2 and funded it with $400,000 of state money. For most of us, the idea of zooming around in a private airplane over snowbound wilderness just for the chance to spot a terrified wild dog
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Disclosures on Palin Raise Questions on Vetting Process - NYTimes.com 
(unknown author) via www.nytimes.com on Tue, 02 Sep. 2008
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Lack of a comprehensive vetting process may lead to questions about Senator McCain's judgement
While there was no sign that her formal nomination this week was in jeopardy, the questions swirling around Ms. Palin on the first day of the
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Palin was member of party calling for vote on Alaskan secession from US | World news | guardian.co.uk 
(unknown author) via www.guardian.co.uk on Tue, 02 Sep. 2008
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So, is Palin some kind of neo-confederate?
New revelations about the Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin — including her membership of a party that wants Alaskans to vote on becoming a separate country — are raising questions about how thoroughly John McCain's campaign vetted her background before adding her to the ticket.
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Deciding Whether to Read a Book: Some Wildly Reductive Heuristics 
Merlin Mann via 43 Folders on Wed, 27 Aug. 2008
People send me lots of books, so I have to decide rather quickly whether one should be added to the ambitious pile of stuff I already really want to finish reading.
On the off chance that you care or find it useful
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Anyone for croquet? - The Irish Times - Sat, Aug 23, 2008 
(unknown author) via www.irishtimes.com on Mon, 25 Aug. 2008
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Irish croquet's quest for cred.
IF ANYONE CAN deliver croquet from the shackles of its stuffy Victorian image, then surely Andrew Johnston can. The 28-year-old from Wicklow is on the Irish team (yes, we have an international croquet team). Together with his colleagues in the Croquet Association of Ireland (CAI), he seems to be on a mission to make
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Euro spray painters held in US - Scotsman.com 
(unknown author) via www.scotsman.com on Fri, 22 Aug. 2008
Euro spray painters held in US - A COUPLE said to have spray-painted their way across Europe were held by police when they flew home to the US.
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Tartan Army's outbreak of pessimism is a tad premature 
(unknown author) via Scotsman.com - Int'l Footb on Fri, 22 Aug. 2008
LEAVING Hampden Park after Scotland's goalless draw with Northern Ireland the other night, it was not difficult to form the impression that, in terms of making the 2010 Wo
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I Spent Years as a POW with John McCain, and His Finger Should Not Be Near the Red Button | Election 2008 | AlterNet 
(unknown author) via www.alternet.org on Thu, 21 Aug. 2008
A fellow Vietnam POW of McCain's warns of the candidate's "quick and explosive temper" and suggests McCain is exaggerating his imprisonment.
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BBC NEWS | UK | Wales | North West Wales | 'Oldest' caravan celebrates 100th 
(unknown author) via news.bbc.co.uk on Thu, 21 Aug. 2008
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World's oldest automobile trailer in Wales.
An Edwardian holiday home is marking its centenary at a motor museum, which claims it could be the world's oldest caravan designed to be pulled by a car.
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BBC NEWS | UK | Magazine | 10 ways Britain changed over the weekend 
(unknown author) via news.bbc.co.uk on Thu, 21 Aug. 2008
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The UK has had a very successful Olympics, though you wouldn't know it from NBC. Some implications.
The weekend's goldrush in Beijing has left the British in an unusual position - celebrating real sporting success. And some things will never be the same again.
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