Jerry Green: L.A. culture leaves Kobe Bryant with short memory of Pistons' feats

Source: Detroit News Online

Palm Desert, Calif. — Kobe Bryant had a message and it was delivered amid the defeated ruins of a once-superior franchise. And the words have been swallowed and believed with overwhelming confidence. "Come hell or hig ...
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The Baseball Page: May 27, 2012

Source: Washington Examiner

Trying to make up for all the injuries It's still going to be a tough summer in the run production department for the Nationals. There's just no way around that with Jayson Werth gone until after the All-Star b ...
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‘Magic City’ Season 1 Finale Review

Source: ScreenRant

Since last week’s penultimate episode left much of the drama wrapped up enough to make savvy audience members certain any sense of resolution would be undone as the season ended, ‘Time and Tide’ begins with the odd emotional disconn ...
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The Curse of the Bastard Sons

Source: The Good Men Project

There is very little in fiction that is better than a good curse. Here we have an excerpt from a novel we must all be on the watch for: Vanishing Act, by Emily Kiernan. In this excerpt, myth and manhood mix and the past is e ...
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The lonely truth

Source: Stuff.co.nz

AGAINST THE WALL: Former CIA operative Glenn Carle says he didn't write his book to tell 'sexy tales of derring-do'. In a darkened room sits a man whom the American government says is a senior al Qaeda official. His interrogator, a long-serving CIA agent ...
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TEEN FICTION: 'Unconsciousness'

Source: The Huffington Post

This is a regular column featuring original poetry and fiction by and for teens, provided by Figment.com , an online community writing site for young people. By Anna Emerson I heard people speaking, very seriously, as I w ...
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Women buy two-thirds of the books sold in Britain... so why is the literary world such a male chauvinist bastion?

Source: Daily Mail - UK

Equality battle: Best-selling author Joanna Trollope makes a case for keeping a female-only book prize after Orange pulls out of its support for the gong Here’s a question for you all. Do you think men write be ...
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Vatican in chaos after pope butler's arrest

Source: Society of Professional Journalists

FILE - In this May 17, 2008 file photo, Pope Benedict XVI acknowledges faithful upon his arrival at the Our Lady of Mercy Shrine in Savona, near Genoa, Italy, Saturday, May 17, 2008. The Vatican has confirmed Saturday, May 26, 2012, that the pope's ...
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E-books now e-vailable

Source: The Columbian

The unusually long wait is finally over for electronic book enthusiasts at the Fort Vancouver Regional Library District. After several weeks of testing, the library on May 25 officially launched two new systems with about 3,500 books designed for readers ...
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