An excerpt from 'Playing Dead,' by Julia Heaberlin

Source: Fort Worth Star-Telegram

"Do you believe in Fate, Tommie?" I thought about Granny and her cards, about how I sat smack in the middle of a tangled garden that was a metaphor for my life. "Well, I believe that Fate brought you to me," Rosalina said. "Someone told you where I w ...
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Keep our curses in rude health | Victoria Coren

Source: Guardian Unlimited

How would you feel if this column started with a string of expletives? Just imagine it. First word of the piece: "C***!" There, in capital letters, no asterisks, right under my byline photo, as if scrawled there by a criti ...
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A border caught up in a time warp

Source: BBC News

26 May 2012 Last updated at 19:05 ET India and Burma share a long porous border As Manmohan Singh begins a visit to Burma on 28 May, the first by an Indian prime minister in 25 years, the BBC's Sanjoy Majumder trave ...
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Writer: Why the Big-12 SEC Champions Bowl is a PR nightmare for the ACC

Source: Dallas Morning News

Another weekend, another PR crisis for the ACC. Another weekend, another chorus of tweets, blogs and columns forecasting the conference's demise.All of which bring to mind the following lines."Lighten up, Francis," Sergeant Hulka said to Psycho in th ...
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'Lethal Weapon' series gets upgraded for Blu-ray

Source: Deseret News

Mel Gibson's most popular films get a Blu-ray repackaging and several recently released movies make their way to home video for the first time. "Lethal Weapon Collection" (Warner/Blu-ray, 1987-98; R for violence, language, sex, nudit ...
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Whistleblower Michael Woodford sues Olympus for $60m

Source: The Telegraph

Mr Woodford’s claims for unfair dismissal for whistleblowing and discrimination are due to be heard from midday on Monday at an east London tribunal. There is no limit on damages awards for discrimination. Mr Woodford – who declined to comme ...
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Facebook vs. Porn: A Pocket History

Source: PC World

It shouldn't surprise anyone that an online service with more than 900 million members will attract some attention from the porn industry, as Facebook has through the years. That attention has spurred the social network ...
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Cannes 2012: 'Amour' director Haneke says he hasn't mellowed

Source: Los Angeles Times

Two months ago, the Austrian director Michael Haneke turned 70, which might explain why he recently took a turn from his provocateur past to make "Amour," a tender movie about a Parisian couple struggling with old age. But ask Haneke if the ...
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Bahrain to quit Arabsat to protest Iran channels

Source: France 24

AFP - Bahrain will stop broadcasting its channels on satellite operator Arabsat to protest an Iran-led "hostile" media campaign, the state news agency BNA reported on Saturday. "The Information Affairs Authority ( ...
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