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Book Festival review: Trio of women who write all wrongs

scotsman.com     Aug 12, 2008          

Published Date: 12 August 2008 IT TURNS out that Katharine Whitehorn is chairperson Ruth Wishart's journalistic icon. A revelatory and enjoyable trip down memory la Sibyl Le Fleur tag-teamed with her son, Derek Flory, in...                    

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Why Google Is a Media Company

pff.org     Aug 12, 2008   2 related          

I used to get endless grief from pro-regulatory media activists here in DC when I put forward the argument in days past about how Google was a media company and a major player in the battle for eyes, ears and ad dollars in...                    

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Book review: So I Have Thought of You: The Letters of Penelope Fitzgerald

scotsman.com     Aug 11, 2008          

She was in her mid-fifties and had recently fin ished her first book, a biography of Edward Burne-Jones. Scholarly and imaginative, like her distinguished donnish family, Fitzgerald spent most of her life in relative obscurity,...                    

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The Last Great Men’s Olympic Basketball Team

b5media.com     Aug 9, 2008   117 related          

A guest blog from Kevin Hunter, of b5media’s “College Fast Break“: As Kobe, LeBron, Wade and Company try too bring back the gold and make up for the 2004 debacle where we can home without it for only the third time in history,...                    

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Olympic Experience More Than A Gold Medal For Alonzo Mourning

cstv.com     Aug 8, 2008          

WASHINGTON, D.C. - To say Alonzo Mourning will always remember his experience at the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games is a bit cliché, like saying a person will always remember the birth of their child. But for Mourning, his...                    

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My List: Most Painful Team Changes in Sports

foxsports.com     Aug 8, 2008          

Well, as everybody knows, the Brett Favre soap opera finally reached a conclusion early Thursday as Favre was dealt to the New York Jets. Patrick Ewing from Knicks to Sonics (2000) to Magic (2001): You can't say Ewing didn't...                    

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The Scotsman's book club review The Fame Formula by Mark Borkowski

scotsman.com     Aug 9, 2008          

It should have been a fascinating history of showbiz publicity and celebrity culture, but Mark Borkowski's book looks more like an excuse for a vacuous PR stunt. Because Mark Borkowski is a showbiz PR who's a regular PR...                    

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Book review: When Will There Be Good News?

scotsman.com     Aug 9, 2008          

READER, SUSPEND DISBELIEF. Kate Atkinson's latest (darkest? bloodiest? most free-wheeling?) slice of make-belief has attitude and altitude in abundance. When we first meet him, Jackson Brodie, Atkinson's ex-army, ex-cop,...                    

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Jackson: Missing ingredient

espn.go.com     Aug 7, 2008          

They looked good, didn't they? AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko Chris Bosh threw down a big dunk against Australia -- but was it an intimidating one? There was a point in the third quarter of USA's final pre-Beijing tune-up against...                    

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Steve Young: Sonny Hill: Humanitarian Hall of Famer - Making Basketball, Practice for the Real World

huffingtonpost.com     Aug 7, 2008          

Philadelphia's "Mr Basketball," Sonny Hill, who never got the chance to be voted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame as a player, but on September 5th, he will hear his name announced at the Hall as co-recipient of the...                    

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