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I write a nasty book. And they want a girly cover on it
The Guardian
The latest literary dust-up in the United States concerns the outsize critical admiration of Jonathan Franzen's new novel Freedom, the follow-up to his 2001 ...

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The Canadian Press

Imaginative writer needs to grow up, save career in comedy, 'It Must Be Him'
The Canadian Press
His never-grow-up attitude quickly becomes annoying, as does his unnecessarily outsize, Peter Pan-like white nightshirt. Larry Grossman wrote music and Ryan ...

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Theater: Sarah Ruhl's ??In the Next Room, or the Vibrator Play' doesn't resonate
Washington Post
Presented in an often becomingly acted package at Woolly Mammoth Theatre, the play ultimately forces outsize comic possibilities into a fairly predictable ...

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Houston Chronicle

In 1992, Clinton wasn't afraid to let her hair down during her husband's ...
Houston Chronicle
She finally found a style that was a keeper, and even loosed her own wry humor over the outsize media interest in a woman's right to play with her hair. ...

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Washington Nationals fire TV announcer Rob Dibble after his comments about ...
Washington Post
In an interview with the Baltimore Sun last year, Dibble - an outspoken figure with an outsize personality - suggested that he'd be stepping gently in his ...

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Animal Official's Dismissal Causes Stir
Wall Street Journal
... is in an uproar over the sudden dismissal of its director, the latest flap for an agency that has an outsize importance in a heavily rural area. ...

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China Buying Australia by the Shipload Raises Cash, Outback Ire
Bloomberg
Supporters of the tax argue that the resources are not coming back and that Australia should participate more fully in the outsize profits. ...



Lehman rescue: A bridge too far
Fortune (blog)
... said the point was moot because the Fed concluded it couldn't advance money to Lehman without running the risk of outsize losses. ...

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Conservative Groups Plan to Spend Close to $400 Million by November
The Washington Independent
... to get a sense of most groups' major donors, however, suspicions abound that wealthy individuals play an outsize role in funding a majority of these groups.



Prior wants back in the show
Telegraph-Journal
Prior took the outsize hype and money, and quickly justified them. He was in the Cubs' rotation in less than a year. He finished 18-6 and third in the Cy ...

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