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Exercise books that carry the Education Department logo, along with a bold “Not for sale” sign, have ended up on sale at a local retail store. The exercise books are being sold for R1 at a shop in Northdale. The store owner told The Witness he ...

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Question over school books - Witness

PINE BLUFF, Ark. - Like any library, the bookshelves overseen by Dennice Alexander draw visitors with diverse literary tastes. Requests for everything from philosophy books to "The Art of Sculling" reach Alexander's desk, which is filled with lists ...

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Prison librarian lights the way with books for Arkansas inmates - News1130.com

The incident that took place between 2 am and 4 am destroyed the documents, religious books, and furniture kept inside the 86-year-old church located in Railway Colony. The administration has ordered a magisterial inquiry into the incident, which has ...

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Church set on fire in MP, probe ordered - Hindustan Times

W.D. Wetherell. Skyhorse Publishing. 288 pages. $22.95. In the first chapter of this loving remembrance of his son's final year of playing soccer on a top-ranked high school team, W.D. Wetherell says he assumes that anyone reading the book "already ...

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Books: 'Soccer Dad' - Seattle Post Intelligencer

As the days grow shorter and the nights cooler, the urge to curl up with a good book grows stronger. Plenty of volumes to satisfy the urge, many by acknowledged heavy hitters, are on their way to a bookstore near you - and already can be ordered ...

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Books: Speaking volumes - Philiy.com

It's several degrees hotter than the highest recorded temperature in Hades, and so humid it's like breathing wet cotton. Only air conditioning makes the Southern summer bearable -- air conditioning and seafood. I decide I need to pay homage to ...

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Old Florida on the Half Shell Apalachicola Keeps Authentic Sights and ... - Washington Post

Most Florida oysters come from Apalachicola Bay, but the bivalves harvested by local watermen, above, are threatened by development. (Visit Florida) "The shrimpers are having a hard time" making a living from the sea, one resident says. "Everyone is ...

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Old Florida on the Half Shell - Washington Post

Next Dade schools chief likely to come internally Rudy Crew skips disputed Dade School Board meeting Rudy Crew: `Do not talk to me like a dog!' Dade board considers buyout of schools chief Crew Dade schools consider cutting 370 more jobs Budget talk ...

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Crew: `I feel like I did the best I could' - Miami Herald

There should be a new offence for the criminal statute books. “Are you now or have you ever been a Venice Film Festival juror?” This event has a history of mad prizes even more egregious than Cannes. But in the case of the 2008 Golden Lion ...

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Wrestling with one for the airheads - Financial Times

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Both U.S. presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain said on Sunday they see the federal takeover of mortgage finance companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac as necessary. Republican McCain supports the federal takeover ...

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