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Orwell's 1984 as a pulp novel - Boing Boing
Jason, "I just blogged about a wonderfully lurid and pulpish book cover for Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, published in 1954 by Signet, that I happened to randomly find on Amazon. Significant is the artwork and over-the-top copy on the back, which is quite different from almost every other edition of this novel that I've seen."
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Finalist In McDonalds/MySpace Jingle Contest Is Former McDonalds Armed Robber
Enter 29 year old Tamien Bain, who held up a McDonald’s at gunpoint when he was 14, was convicted as an adult and served 12 years in prison. He’s also one of the five finalists in the jingle competition (no. 4, the guy with the white tshirt and baseball cap).
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Cardinal's niece bares uncle's 'sins' - World - theage.com.au
TOPLESS and dressed in suspenders, she stares from the cover of one of Spain's best-selling soft porn magazines. But this is not another of the scantily clad models who feature every week in Interviu. Rather it is the niece of the conservative head of the Spanish Church, Cardinal Antonio Maria Rouco Varela.
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LRB · Donald MacKenzie: End-of-the-World Trade
Last November, I spent several days in the skyscrapers of Canary Wharf, in banks’ headquarters in the City and in the pale wood and glass of a hedge fund’s St James’s office trying to understand the credit crisis that had erupted over the previous four months. I became intrigued by an oddity that I came to think of as the end-of-the-world trade. The trade is the purchase of insurance against what would in effect be the failure of the modern capitalist system.
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Unloading the Leftovers of Past Loves - New York Times
The founders of the Web site ExBoyfriendJewelry.com think a mix of cash and catharsis would be most satisfying. The site, created in February by two women here, allows users to sell, auction, trade or simply give away the refuse of their amorous misadventures. But they must tell the stories behind every gift. Prices on the site Tuesday ranged from free to $4,800.
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