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If It Looks Like Islamic Terrorism…

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Dems Message To Women: Don't Enjoy The Sex

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Health Care Financing Reform: (62) The Stupak Amendment

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Muffle Your Muffler

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RUMORS: Downtown Restaurant Explosion

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Jack is looking for a trip to Southern Ohio the week of November 16.

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New 'Call of Duty' could set entertainment record

Books
Chabon is rewriting the concept of man
Manhood today is much like Eastern Europe after the fall of communism. Does that analogy sound preposterous? Consider: As in the lands of the Soviet imperium, men once had an authoritarian ideology that tied them together and told them how to behave. The forces that destroyed that ideology did not come from outside of manhood. Instead, manhood was destroyed from within by the very same forces that undermined the Soviet Union: hypocrisy, corruption, ineptitude, brutality and alienation. Read the story>>
Grisham tries short stories
John Grisham had some story ideas that he didn't think could sustain full-length narrative. So he did what he customarily does: whatever he wants to. Was anyone at Doubleday going to argue with that? Read the story>>

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New book recounts Brown's battles
A new book about abolitionist John Brown opens with a nod to Hudson. ''John Brown and his family lived in the small community of Hudson, in the state of Ohio. Hudson was a great center of the abolitionist cause,'' writes John Hendrix in John Brown: His Fight for Freedom (Abrams, $18.95). Read the story>>

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