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- L'ancien espion russe mystérieusement empoisonné a été enterré jeudi à Londres. Une cérémonie non-religieuse précédée d'une prière à la mosquée. |
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- Le Hezbollah a appelé jeudi ses partisans à durcir leur mouvement pour renverser le gouvernement libanais de Fouad Saniora. Une manifestation est attendue dimanche. |
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- Tel pourrait être le nombre d'étudiants qui ont recours à cette pratique pour financer leurs études. Exemple à Bordeaux. |
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- Une commission indépendante a remis mercredi au président américain un rapport qui constate que la politique irakienne de l'administration Bush "ne marche pas". |
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- L'objectif de cette chaîne, voulue par Jacques Chirac depuis plusieurs années, est de "couvrir l'actualité avec un regard français" et de "véhiculer partout dans le monde les valeurs de la France". |
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- Depuis mercredi, les fumeurs belges achètent des paquets sur lesquels ils peuvent voir, par exemple, une tumeur des poumons, un bébé dans un incubateur... |
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- Les agents respectifs de Jennifer Aniston et Vince Vaughn ont confirmé que les deux acteurs avaient décidé de se séparer. |
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- Au Philips Stadion aux Pays-Bas, l'équipe a remporté mardi une victoire inutile, mais précieuse pour le moral face au PSV Eindhoven. |
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- Survivant, miraculé... Mais le soulagement d'être encore de ce monde a vite succédéà la colère après l'accident de bus survenu au Maroc samedi. |
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- Slashdot: trifster writes “Ars Technica has an article about EMI selling DRM-free MP3’s through Yahoo Music’s US online store. |
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- Green Tea Weight Loss - Myth or Fact?Have you seen recent Oprah show? Green tea was recently discussed in this show also. I think you might already aware that green tea helps a lot to battle against life-threatening diseases like heart disease, arteriosclerosis and cancer. Yet, there is one more reason why you must prefer [... |
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- Autor: debeli Postano: 08.12.2006. |
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- newegg.com offers the Netgear GS724T 24-Port Smart Gigabit Switch for $299.99 with free shipping. Coupon code "EMCNETGS20" |
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- Google beta lets advertisers buy radio ads via the search giant's online system. |
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- it's very important to examine to see what choices or help the various businesses are supplying which will provide us bankruptcy court western district help for you. Taking advantage of the wealth of info that is obtainable on us bankruptcy court... |
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- Tomorrow being the 2-year anniversary of the Selendang Ayu disaster in Alaska's Aleutian Islands, a broad-based citizen's coalition based in Alaska today renewed harsh criticism for government failure to make substantial progress in implementing safety measures ... |
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- Residents of The Woodlands got what they were hoping for Thursday -- a promise that they won't become part of Houston. |
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- AMD'S ATI SENT OUT the weirdest price drop notification I have ever seen. |
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- Goncourt-winner Jonathan Littell has been trying to become a French citizenship for ages now, but only after the success of Les Bienveillantes have they finally granted it to him. So will he remain American too ? Can he afford to ? |
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Blit-con ? (Dec 07 2006 23:43 GMT) - In Welcome to Planet Blitcon in the New Statesman Ziauddin Sardar writes about Martin Amis, Salman Rushdie and Ian McEwan, arguing: They are the vanguard of British literary neoconservatives. |
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- 2017 by Olga Slavnikova has won the Russian Booker. |
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- Al-Ahram Weekly prints the first Naguib Mahfouz Memorial Lecture, Nobel laureate Nadine Gordimer's Witness: the inward testimony, which she delivered a few days ago. |
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- In The K File - number one Hungarian Literature Online gives an overview of the German critical reactions to Nobel laureate Kertesz Imre's memoir which recently came out in German and is doing very well there. |
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- Orhan Pamuk will deliver his Nobel lecture, 'Babamin bavulu' ('My Father's Suitcase'), today at 17:30 CMT. You can catch it live (and the English transcript) at the Nobel website. |
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- At Brown they're staging Sartre's The Flies with 30,000 live flies ..... |
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- The most recent addition to the complete review is our review of Aleksis Kivi's Seven Brothers. |
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- Yes, the Daily Telegraph has the scoop -- and the letter --: see Nigel Reynolds' Recluse speaks out to defend McEwan -- and click on the letter to read Pynchon's own (?) words. Apparently all sorts of writers are coming to McEwan's defense. Meanwhile, we didn't realise he needed defending. |
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- They note that: This year's selections divide evenly between fiction and nonfiction -- so why are they reviewing so much more non-fiction than fiction ? |
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- The Australian Literary Review, a few issues in, seems to be doing very nicely, suggesting expanded book coverage is still possible and worthwhile in the print media. |
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- A Thousand Years of Good Prayers has won The Guardian first book award. |
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- The most recent addition to the complete review is our review of Stefano Benni's Margherita Dolce Vita. |
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- A call for submissions for the Oxford Weidenfeld Translation Prize -- you have until 31 January 2007. |
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- Xinhua report that Woman writes sequel to 'A Dream of Red Mansions'. |
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- So word is now that Dalkey Archive Press is set to remain in state, moving to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. |
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- The most recent addition to the complete review is our review of Brian Myers on The Failure of Socialist Realism in the DPRK, Han Sorya and North Korean Literature. |
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- Shinie Antony apparently isn't impressed by the state of book reviewing (in India), wondering: Can read, will review -- who will criticise the critics ? |
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- Other than a few journalists nobody showed up when Orhan Pamuk retiurned home for the first time after being named this year's Nobel laureate -- but at least he has one fan there: in Turkish Daily News Yuksel Soylemez offers A salute to Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk. |
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- The December/Winter issues of a couple of worthwhile online publications are now available. |
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- The most recent addition to the complete review is our review of Heliodorus' Ethiopian Story -- one of the earliest surviving novels. |
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- We don't have any of the Book World's 10 Best of the Year under review, but we're glad to see Ferdowsi's Shahnameh on the list (and we do plan to get to it eventually). |
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- In Meeting Mr. Narayan in The Hindu Swedish writer Zac O'Yeah recounts his encounter with the great Indian writer in 1998. |
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- Nobel-winner Orhan Pamuk -- who will be picking up his prize soon -- travelled back to his native Turkey for the first time since he was named this year's laureate -- and apparently nobody there cares. |
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- In The Australian Rosemary Neill "charts the abandonment of Oz lit" in the lengthy piece, Lost for words. |
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- In Ha'aretz Aliyana Traison and Daphna Berman offer a lengthy overview of second-hand bookshops in Israel, in Second helpings. |
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- The flood of reviews of Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day continues apace -- and now there are even some German ones. |
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- In his Salon-column in The Moscow Times Victor Sonkin considers whether: "the Big Book can take the Booker's place as Russia's No. 1 literary award." |
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- Antonio Gamoneda has won the Premio Cervantes de Literatura. See also the list of previous winners. |
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- In Pawn of the Neocons ? at Slate Gideon Lewis-Kraus looks at: 'The debate over Reading Lolita in Tehran'. |
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- We finally got around to reviewing Alaa Al Aswany's The Yacoubian Building. |
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CD Universe (Dec 07 2006 23:43 GMT) - Price: $19.89; Rating: 4 |
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- Fiji?s powerful tribal chiefs indicated Friday they would meet the armed forces leader who ousted the prime minister in a coup this week, boosting his hopes of gaining credibility and solidifying his power. |
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