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75 achievements Oscar forgot
Tribune movie criticWhen the Oscar nominations come out Tuesday, there are bound to be cries of injustice -- and in many cases, those charges will have merit. Can anyone really defend the exclusion from the Oscar nominee list in various years of movies such as "Some Like...Tags: Robert De Niro, Arthur Penn, James Robert Thompson, Dennis Hopper, Leo McCarey
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Michael Henry Heim dies at 69; UCLA scholar, translator
Michael Henry Heim, a literary translator and humble philanthropist whose teaching, activism and widely admired translations of works by such writers as Günter Grass and Milan Kundera helped bring the voices of contemporary world literature into the...
Tags: Obituaries, Nobel Prize Awards, Literature, Germany, Entertainment Events
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The EU's ugly little challenge
COLUM MCCANN's new novel, "Zoli," will be published Tuesday by Random House.ON NEW YEAR'S day, the European Union swelled by another 28 million people. The inclusion of Romania and Bulgaria in the European fold is cause for celebration in the streets of Bucharest and the courtyards of Sofia. For two of Europe's poorer countries,...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Bucharest (Romania), The Holocaust (1934-1945), Sofia (Bulgaria), Romania
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China can't confront truth of century-old revolution
CNN ContributorOn this day 100 years ago, troops in the city of Wuchang, in China's Hubei province, launched a coup against local authorities. The coup ignited a civil war that ended in the collapse of China's 2,200-year-old imperial system. When a republican...Tags: International Travel, Travel, Communist Party of China, Time Warner Inc., News Agency
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Book review: 'House of Holes' by Nicholson Baker
Los Angeles Times Book CriticHouse of Holes A Book of Raunch Nicholson Baker Simon & Schuster: 262 pp., $25 Nicholson Baker wasn't kidding when he subtitled "House of Holes," his new novel, "A Book of Raunch." Indeed, it's a bona fide filth-fest, so unrelentingly graphic that...Tags: Arts and Culture, Literature, Social Issues, Book, Pornography
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Tags: Fidel Castro, Mario Vargas Llosa
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Tags: Celebrities and Health Issues, Bullfighting, John Lennon, Sports, Woody Allen
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10 things you might not know about April Fools' Day
Tribune staff reportersWe're just a few days from April 1, a notorious time for hoaxes. We could have waited, but we figured you might not trust these 10 facts if they were printed on April Fools' Day. All indeed are true. Really. No kidding. We promise. 1. The origin of April...Tags: Newspapers, University of Michigan, BBC, Defense, The Ohio State University
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Tags: Chile, Franz Kafka, Santiago (Chile)
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Community Commentary: 'The Fair is dead, long live the Fair'
The fairgrounds sale is now in its 18th mind-numbing month. Still, it is difficult to understand the events leading up to today. As one who spent that 18 months at the vortex, I will spare you the hundreds of details, save for a few, even though there are...Tags: Civil Unrest, American Revolutionary War (1775-1783), William Shakespeare, History, Comedy (genre)
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