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Secrecy and paranoia are hallmarks of Harper’s leadership — 162 words.
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More American military veterans have been committing suicide than US soldiers have been dying in Iraq, it was claimed yesterday. — 626 words.
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OTTAWA - Detailed, specific, first-hand accounts about the abuse of Canadian-captured Afghan prisoners were in the hands of the Conservative government 48 hours after the first media reports appeared last spring, court records show. — 1,011 words.
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A startling new study by medical researchers in the United States has caused consternation among public health professionals by suggesting that, contrary to conventional wisdom, being overweight might actually be beneficial for health. — 1,054 words.
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Is your car a potential money-spinner or will it be nothing but an old banger ready for the scrap-yard in 50 years? — 495 words.
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George Laidlaw, President of Ottawa Independent Writers (OIW), said that the Fifth Annual Ottawa Authors Book Sale (formerly the OIW Book Fair) was a resounding success. — 178 words.
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Charles Gordon, an Ottawa Citizen columnist, will be the guest speaker at the Wednesday, November 28, general membership meeting of the Ottawa Independent Writers. — 165 words
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"I have, after a fashion, been celebrated for having celebrated the lives of the uncelebrated among us; for lending voice to the face in the crowd." That is the opening line of Studs Terkel's long-awaited memoir, Touch and Go. I made a pilgrimage to Chicago to see Terkel, one of the 20th century's greatest journalists, interviewers, and storytellers. — 664 words.
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Here's the story: The writers seem to be keeping up their momentum, and talent from Jason Alexander to Ray Romano to Holly Hunter to Patricia Heaton is turning out to support them. The question is: How stiff is their resolve? —1,134 words.
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This week, Ogonyok and Russian Newsweek magazines took a pop at the feeble state of the Russian music industry, or specifically the singers' penchant for lip-synching and the producers' penchant for switching the lineup of their girl groups -- a musical genre that one described as "singing knickers." — 615 words.
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The journey to the martial law just imposed on Pakistan by Pervez Musharraf began in Washington on Sept. 11, 2001. — 1,505 words.
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