Posts Tagged ‘world’

The Girl Who Played With Fire: Moony Over Noomi

Sunday, July 11th, 2010

What's the best reason to continue to follow the screen incarnation of Stieg Larsson's trilogy? Noomi Rapace as Lisbeth Salander

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The Girl Who Played With Fire: Moony Over Noomi

Shakespeare First Folio’s saga ends as man is convicted of handling stolen goods

Saturday, July 10th, 2010

The flashy, champagne-loving British book fancier who walked into the Folger Shakespeare Library two years ago with what turned out to be a rare, valuable -- and stolen -- volume of Shakespeare's First Folio was cleared of theft but convicted of two related crimes Friday in a British courtroom. First Folio - Arts - Shakespeare - Literature - World Literature

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Shakespeare First Folio's saga ends as man is convicted of handling stolen goods

Something About a Name

Wednesday, July 7th, 2010

Sean Carasso tells how names inspired a movement.

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Something About a Name

Justice Department files suit against Arizona over immigration law

Tuesday, July 6th, 2010

The Department of Justice has filed suit against Arizona's immigration law, arguing that it interferes with the federal government's right to set and enforce its own border policy. The long-expected challenge names Arizona Gov

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Power games: can Nadal seize his rival’s crown?

Monday, July 5th, 2010

The guests at the Wimbledon Champions' Dinner in London on Sunday night had already finished their rare sirloin of beef and were well into the golden supreme of south coast halibut by the time the star of the show appeared.

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Scholastic makes inroads into Arabic children’s book market

Sunday, July 4th, 2010

Sensing a business and cultural opportunity, Scholastic carefully translates English-language books like "Heidi" and "The Magic School Bus" to be used at schools in several Arab-speaking countries. The publisher was on a rare and delicate mission to translate and mass-market books from America for a part of the world that often rails against American values.

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Book about secretive NKorea wins UK literary prize

Thursday, July 1st, 2010

A book that gives a rare glimpse of everyday life inside one of the world's most secretive states won Britain's leading nonfiction book prize Thursday.

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Rare Napoleon memorabilia, including a lock of his hair, sold in New Zealand auction

Wednesday, June 30th, 2010

Rare memorabilia of former French Emperor Napoleon 1st, including a lock of hair cut from his head after he died in exile in 1821 on the remote island of St. Helena, have fetched 140,000 New Zea...

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Rare Napoleon memorabilia, including a lock of his hair, sold in New Zealand auction

Communist Party opens door to secretive school

Wednesday, June 30th, 2010

China threw open the gates of its secretive Central Party School on Wednesday, offering foreign journalists a rare but carefully scripted peek at the leafy campus where the country's Communist elite are trained.

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Stephen Hawking book ‘The Grand Design’ out in September

Tuesday, June 29th, 2010

Stephen Hawking hasn't had a major new work in nearly a decade.

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Stephen Hawking book 'The Grand Design' out in September