Who would have guessed that Charlotte and Emily Bronte, the motherless daughters of a country curate, would someday be regarded as two of the best writers in the English language? They lived quiet liv...
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The Texas Youth Commission fired seven employees, including four quality assurance monitors, in response to a report of juvenile inmates living in squalid conditions at a West Texas lockup.Commissi...
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Question 1 of 10:The future ‘bad boy of English fiction’ obtained a 3rd class degree from Oxford University. What did he study?English LiteratureEngineering
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Sydney (dpa) - Australians were in shock Wednesday on learning
that Perth-born Heath Ledger had been found dead at the age of 28 in
his New York apartment.
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Reigning Olympic champion Kosuke Kitajima showed little effects
of a recent injury to win the men's 100-meter breaststroke on the
opening day of the International Swim Meet 2007 in Japan on T...
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Juvenile prison officials ordered the removal of young offenders from a privately run juvenile detention center on Monday, citing unsanitary and unsafe conditions.A Texas Youth Commission official ...
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Sydney (dpa) - Australians were in shock Wednesday on learning
that Perth-born Heath Ledger had been found dead at the age of 28 in
his New York apartment.
Le...
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Double Olympic champion Kosuke Kitajima capitalized on the
absence of chief rival and world record holder Brendan Hansen to
complete a breaststroke double with victory in the men's 200 meters...
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(EDS: ADDING KITAJIMA QUOTES IN 5TH GRAF)
Double Olympic champion Kosuke Kitajima capitalized on the
absence of chief rival and world record holder Brendan Hansen to
complete a breaststroke ...
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Delbert Mann, who transformed Paddy Chayefsky's classic teleplays "Marty" and "The Bachelor Party" into big-screen triumphs and helped bring TV techniques to the film world, died Sunday. He was 87....
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This Valentine's Day, one publisher wants you to be the one doing the bodice-ripping. Book By You says it sells thousands of personalized romance novels each year with titles such as "ER Fever" and...
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The Brontes
Texas agency fires youth prison workers
