Ann Beattie is a novelist and short-story writer whose evocations of American life at the end of the twentieth century have earned her a wide readership and sustained critical engagement for more than...
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Ann Beattie's powerful contrast in her writing of tellingly detailed descriptions and stark silence has caused her work to be placed in the contemporary canon of literary minimalism, a movement identi...
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The parents of Madeleine McCann on Thursday released an artist's impression of the man they believe abducted their daughter during a family vacation in Portugal.The sketches depict a man with shoul...
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London (dpa) - The Europe-wide campaign to find four-year-old
British girl Madeleine McCann who disappeared while on holiday in
southern Portugal is to receive a further boo...
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U.S. experts return from N. Korea after visiting Yongbyon complex
BEIJING - U.S. nuclear experts arrived Saturday in Beijing after
a trip to North Korea which included a visit to...
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Hamburg (dpa) - Portugal, Serbia and Finland are among teams
looking to improve their chances of qualifying for the 2008 European
Championships with victories on Wednesday. ...
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Sydney (dpa) - Australians were promised tax cuts Tuesday and a
massive increase in higher education and health spending after the
already bounteous budget surplus was revis...
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TOKYO, Oct 19 (Reuters) - Smokers in Japan will no longer be
able to buy cigarettes from vending machines from next year
without an ID card that says they are adults under a new system
that aims t...
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Paramount Pictures will no longer be showing Tom Cruise any more money. The feature film organization and the Jerry Maguire star are officially separating in an unamicable split that the stud...
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In the mood for a good mystery? How about 12 of them?
Organizers for the first International Mystery Writers' Festival will showcase 12 works June 12-17 in Owensboro. Some of the genre's k...
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People who own an HD DVD player can forget about watching "Spider-Man 3" in high definition when it goes on sale during the holiday season. The movie from Sony Pictures will only be available in th...
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People who own an HD DVD player can forget about watching "Spider-Man 3" in high definition when it goes on sale during the holiday season. The movie from Sony Pictures will only be available in th...
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Ann Beattie
McCanns release likeness of 'suspect'
