10/10/2008
New players added to mix for World Cup champions Italy (GMA News)
ROME - With half of Italy"s first-choice lineup missing due to injury, coach Marcello Lippi will be relying on some less famous names to keep the Azzurri top of their group in World Cup qualifiers against Bulgaria on Saturday and Montenegro four days later.
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10/10/2008
New players added to mix for World Cup champions (San Diego Union-Tribune)
With half of Italy's first-choice lineup missing due to injury, coach Marcello Lippi will be relying on some less famous names to keep the Azurri top of their group in World Cup qualifiers against Bulgaria on Saturday and Montenegro four days later.
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10/10/2008
New players added to mix for World Cup champions (Fox Sports)
Italy coach Marcello Lippi will be relying on some less famous names to keep the Azzurri top of their WCQ group.
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10/11/2008
Scott Anderson's 'The Art of Democracy' (San Francisco Chronicle)
Political art tends toward caricature, perhaps because political animus itself tends to moralistic extremes. So the prevalence of grotesques in "The Art of Democracy: War and Empire" at Meridian Gallery should surprise no one. But when artists confront the...
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10/11/2008
Star power meets philanthropy with celeb charities (The Times of Northwest Indiana)
Bono battles the AIDS epidemic. Leonardo tries to make the world a greener place, and Martha has a soft spot for animals.
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10/10/2008
‘Boom!’ Brokaw brings back the ’60s (MSNBC)
The journalist has a 'virtual reunion' with some of the decades most important people, writing his latest book based on more than 50 interviews with artists, politicians, activists, business leaders, journalists, Vietnam vets and more. An excerpt.
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10/10/2008
Seth Rogen Signs Up For New Comedy (ContactMusic)
Hollywood funny man SETH ROGEN has signed up to a new comedy I'M WITH CANCER.The KNOCKED UP and SUPER BAD star will also produce the movie, which follows the ...
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10/10/2008
City of Ember (PG) ** | May be lights out for audience, too (Miami Herald)
If the family-oriented fantasy City of Ember wasn't based on the 2003 novel by Jeanne Duprau, you'd swear it had been inspired by a theme-park attraction. Adapted by screenwriter Caroline Thompson (whose previous films include Edward Scissorhands and The Nightmare Before Christmas), the movie is an exceedingly slight tale whose entire second half consists primarily of special effects and ...
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10/10/2008
Edward Curtis, driven by a dream (Minnesota Public Radio)
The American photographer thought big and he set out to document the North American Indian, and made it his life's work. Author Alan Cheuse has written a new novel based on Curtis' and will be in the Twin Cities as part of the Twin Cities Book Festival.
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10/10/2008
Books of the week: Life stories to treasure (Independent)
There are celebrities, and then there are national treasures: those precious few who, transcending mere fame, are taken to the collective bosom, where they rest in a fiercely protective layer of affection and presumptive intimacy. Like the royal family, they are not beyond criticism; but talking them down in public entails a degree of risk.
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