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A few items from F. Scott Fitzgerald you might consider checking out if you haven't.
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Alternate titles to this entry include: "When cardboard is a flavor profile" and "Free coffee not nearly worth what I paid."
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Kathryn Bigelow’s first feature film since her award-winning effort, "The Hurt Locker," returns to the Middle East-- but this time its focus is less the front lines and more the back rooms, the CIA operatives hunting for Osama bin Laden.
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Early in U.S. History, synagogues were designed to look like other civic buildings. If you passed by a synagogue, you might think you were strolling past a bank. Maybe that has a similar root cause to why Jews tend to decorate the interior of their homes for the holidays; rarely the exterior.
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An essay topic -- "'What is your favorite word and why?" -- made me angry. After all, it’s a trick question. There’s no right way to answer it.
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Hard to love anything as much as we do coffee. But Halloween comes close. And where the two meet? Here's our Mug 'O Lantern.
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The Indian Call Center Scam is a "phone phishing" scam where cruel idiots claiming to be from a Microsoft partner attempt to trick folks into letting them access their computers. The experience can be hilarious, but unsettling all the same.
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The age-old question -- should I attend my high school reunion? Here are some reasons on both sides. Which will you choose when it's time for your dreaded (or anticipated) day?
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It’s amazing how far a woman can get with a man through some positive encouragement and uplifting praise. In a way, submits the author, Alanis Morissette’s music has a lot in common with Christian worship.
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Does Ridley Scott's beautiful and engrossing return to sci-fi overcome its late-movie cliches? 'Prometheus' reviewed.
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