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| ROYLE, PATRICK J. & DORFF, FRANCIS & GROSHONG, MIKE |
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| Baumann, Paul |
| Encounters of the first kind |
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| Garvey, John |
| DELICATE NEGOTIATIONS Peacemaking is hard, especially at home |
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| Cooper, Rand Richards |
| To the Beloved, Who Knows Nothing |
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| Campbell, Mary Baine |
| Kill Bill-Volume I Lost in Translation Looking west from California's shores |
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| Alleva, Richard |
| Little Shop of Horrors Wicked Bad girls |
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| Wren, Celia |
| Transfigurations El Greco at the Met |
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| Jordan, Patrick |
| The George W Bush Presidency edited by Fred I Greenstein America Unbound by Ivo H Daalder and James M Lindsay Imperial America by John Newhouse Book essay |
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| Wolfe, Alan |
| Critics' choices for Christmas |
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| Slaughter, Anne-Marie |
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| McDermott, Alice |
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| Allitt, Patrick |
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| Nussbaum, Mary Margaret C |
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| Macchiarola, Frank J |
| Foul ball |
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| Gallicho, Grant |
