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Column: Some cracks in the technocrat cult
ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters) - We are living in the age of the technocrats. In business, Big Data, and the Big Brains who can parse it, rule. In government, the technocrats are on top, too. From Washington to Frankfurt to Rome, technocrats have stepped in where...Tags: Russia, Culture, Journalism, Social Sciences, Economy, Business and Finance
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Shirley MacLaine's Daughter Sachi Parker Has Her Say
The Hartford CourantPeople would often come up to Sachi Parker to say she must be so lucky to have such a wonderful mother, Oscar-winning actress Shirley MacLaine. But they only know a part of the story. Like her outspoken movie star-author-activist mother famous for her...Tags: Entertainment Events, Lifestyle and Leisure, Broadway Theater, Mother's Day, Entertainment
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First edition of 'Great Gatsby' to be sold at auction
ReutersNEW YORK, May 23 (Reuters) - A first edition copy of F. Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece, "The Great Gatsby," will be up for sale next month and could fetch up to $150,000, Sotheby's said on Thursday. The book, which once belonged to the critic and...Tags: Sotheby's Holdings Incorporated, Leonardo DiCaprio, French Literature
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Amazon launches project to monetize fan fiction: Kindle Worlds
Amazon has a plan to monetize fan fiction: It's called Kindle Worlds. On Wednesday, Amazon announced a new scheme in which writers of fan fiction can self-publish and sell that writing with the sanction of the original copyright holder. The idea is that...
Tags: Literature, Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, Metal, Stephenie Meyer, Amazon Kindle
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Where to bury the truly awful
If you don't believe in souls or an afterlife, then a corpse is just a body — potentially a teaching tool, a source of lifesaving organs, but little more. In 1829, taking such thinking to the extreme, a radical British pamphleteer named Peter...
Tags: Values, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Mental Health, Religion and Belief, Dismemberment
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Dutch author Bakker wins Booktrust foreign fiction prize
ReutersLONDON, May 21 (Reuters) - Dutch author Gerbrand Bakker has won the 2013 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize awarded by Britain's Booktrust charity for "The Detour", a tale of infidelity, exile and isolation. Bakker will share the 10,000 pound ($15,200)...Tags: Literature, Arts and Culture, United Kingdom
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More poor in U.S. suburbs than cities, report says
Once considered the definition of the middle-class American dream, the suburbs are now home to a larger, faster-growing poor population than urban areas, according to a new analysis. During the 2000s, the number of poor living in U.S. suburbs grew by 64...
Tags: Environmental Issues, New York City, Social Issues, Calumet Heights, Consumer Goods Industries
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Parkland Library to host special public events during Summer 2013
Parkland Community Library will host a number of events throughout the summer, including an Edible Book Contest, book signings, Read to the Pups and more. The list is as follows, according to the library's newsletter: Summer Reading Club - Registration...Tags: Arts and Culture, Kutztown, Libraries, Orefield
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James Salter breaks long silence with 'All That Is'
ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters) - Award-winning author James Salter, who completed his last full-length book more than 30 years ago, has released a new novel that chronicles a life drawn from many of his own experiences. Like Salter, the main character in "All That...Tags: Book
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Elizabeth Warren to pen new book -- a middle-class call to arms?
A book can’t rescue the American middle class. But a lot of politicians who say they want to rescue the American middle class are writing books about their travails and their vision — all timed to come out as the 2016 presidential election...
Tags: Political Fundraising, U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Book, Tea Party Movement, Elizabeth Warren
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Honor those who sacrificed much
mmoore@jessaminejournal.comI had never heard the names of Louis Zamperini and Russel Allen Phillips until my pastor gave me the book, “Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption,” by author Laura Hillenbrand, who wrote “Seabiscuit: An...Tags: Human Interest, Pacific Ocean, Memorial Day, U.S. Army
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Report: Suburban Poverty Rises Sharply But CT Regions More Stable
The Hartford CourantMetro Hartford's suburbs have among the lowest poverty rates of the largest 100 U.S. urban areas and is in the middle of the pack in growth of suburban poverty, a new report shows. But the region, which includes Hartford, Middlesex and Tolland counties,...Tags: Washington, DC, Sociology, Social Issues, Brookings Institution, New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut)
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