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| Ambrose Bierce |
| Friendless, adj.: Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense. Discuss |
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| Lucy Maud Montgomery |
| We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed. Life would be a sorry business without them. With them it's grand and great. |
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| Jane Austen |
| Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything. |
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| Charles Murrays Coming Apart: The State of White America |
| The political scientist Charles Murray has a new book, Coming Apart, which depicts members of white elites as hypocrites living in a bubble and the white working class as succumbing to moral decay. |
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| Books of The Times: Anne Sebba on Duchess of Windsor, Scotty Bowers on Himself |
| Anne Sebba looks at the Duchess of Windsor in a new biography; Scotty Bowerss memoir reveals Hollywoods sexual secrets. |
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| New Music: Paul McCartneys Kisses on the Bottom, Featuring Standards |
| Kisses on the Bottom, an album of standards by Paul McCartney, is a jaunty tip of the hat to the pop music of his parents generation. |
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| Music Review: Super Bowl No Longer an Upset: Madonna Acts Her Age |
| Madonna, 53, danced her way back toward worldwide visibility Sunday as the halftime attraction for the Super Bowl, with a giant supporting cast and a downright benign stance. |
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| Television Review: Smash, on NBC, With Debra Messing and Anjelica Huston |
| Smash, NBCs series about backstage Broadway, comes with New York and Hollywood names off screen (Steven Spielberg, Therese Rebeck) and on (Debra Messing and Brian dArcy James). |
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| Man aims to cheer up father with Hello Kitty haircut |
| Feb. 6 - One way to lift your father's winter blues may be with a haircut designed like Hello Kitty. That's what one man in Taiwan decided to do. Andrew Schmertz reports. |
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| Taiwanese celebrate year of the dragon by launching paper lanterns into the sky |
| Feb. 6- Paper lanterns light up the sky in Taiwan as a symbol of good wishes and protection. Andrew Schmertz reports. |
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| Police go on wild-goose chase to track down runaway goat |
| Feb. 6- A runaway goat hoofed it around Melbourne police for hours. Eventually, the goat- named "Houdini"- was captured. Andrew Schmertz reports. |
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| Floating cities proposed as havens of future happiness |
| Feb. 3 - From Russia and the Middle East to western Europe and the United States, dissatisfaction with politics and politicians has led to protest, conflict and, in many cases, violence. But it doesn't have to be that way, according to a U.S. think-tank called The Seasteading Institute. Backed by wealthy donors, the non-profit group believes future peace and prosperity lies far out at sea. Ben Gruber reports. |
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| Brussels statue too cold to ‘go’ |
| Feb. 2 - The Manneken-Pis, a bronze statue of a young boy urinating that is a symbol of Brussels and a major tourist attraction, has had to stop peeing because of sub-zero temperatures. Tara Cleary reports. |
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