If schedule permits, Alex may want to enroll in the Cartooning Workshop of the RMPF group.
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Alex needs Marlowe’s “The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus” for school. Couldn’t find a book copy. Am printing the full text from Project Gutenberg.
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McAfee says “Brad Pitt downloads” has an 18% chance of spyware, spam, phishing, adware, viruses and other malware infection.
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The point of having a Twitter account was to be able to post short notes that will never reach full entry lengths. But the maximum number of characters allowed and the reliance on TinyURL is getting a bit depressing. Am trying the SidePosts plugin.
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In his case, the money came after his stint at the White House when he became an author and sought after speaker.
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A law passed in Arkansas inadvertently inserted the word “not” with the result that the age restriction was removed and literally allowed toddlers to marry.
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Even more surprising is the statement that China is the top importer of soybeans.
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Written by a German professor, it bothers me that the fundamental proposition is that Asia needs to copy the white man’s model to “make it.”
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Another literary fraud, Misha Defonseca, recently admitted that she did not live with wolves during the Holocaust. Now 71, she was neither too old nor too frail two years ago when she sued her former publisher over a profit disagreement and was awarded $22.5 million.
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The author is Margaret Seltzer, not Margaret Jones, and her memoir about being a foster home kid and drug runner is just a figment of her imagination.
Her editor and publisher did not conduct a background check.
Reuters article on ABS-CBN News.
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