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		<title>Messenger: The Legacy of Mattie J.T. Stepanek and Heartsongs by Jeni Stepanek</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:53:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Van Cleave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[He explains it in his journals as “Whatever it is that a person needs or wants, they understand why that matters, and that is the unfolding of their Heartsong . . . And as we learn in almost every religion or philosophy of goodness, it is in giving that we receive. In sharing our Heartsong with others, it goes out into the world, and somehow, circles back to us.”]]></description>
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		<title>In My Father&#8217;s Shadow by Chris Welles Feder</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:29:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rochelle Jewel Shapiro</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Orson had become so famous for his villainous role as Harry Lime in <em>The Third Man</em> that the moment he appeared in public, somebody whipped out an instrument and began playing the theme song. When an organ-grinder began playing the theme while Chris and Orson were crossing Piccadilly Circus, Orson had had it with London. His driver took them way out in the country to picnic in an isolated spot surrounded by hedges. A man on a bicycle saw them, stopped short, and suddenly whipped out his harmonica to play <em>The Third Man</em> theme song.]]></description>
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		<title>Abraham Lincoln: A Life by Michael Burlingame</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/5017</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:06:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Bridges</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Never perhaps has there been such a masterful account of the man’s failures—and successes—in this country’s most taxing job. Look what Burlingame says he did in just his first hundred days in office: “…he raised and supplied an army, sent it into battle, held the Border States in the Union, helped thwart Confederate attempts to win European diplomatic recognition, declared a blockade, asserted leadership over his cabinet, dealt effectively with Congress, averted a potential crisis with Great Britain, and eloquently articulated the nature and purpose of the war.”]]></description>
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		<title>Hos, Hookers, Call Girls, and Rent Boys: Professionals Writing on Life, Love, Money, and Sex</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 17:24:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John R. Guthrie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[And those <em>names</em>: JenniferBlowdryer, Sinnamon Love. Sebastian Horsely, a male prostitute, of course. Horsely advocates the trade as follows; “The difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex money always costs less.” ]]></description>
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		<title>Movie Review: Julie &amp; Julia</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2009 15:06:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julia Rhodes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the last scene of the film, Julie says to Eric, “She saved me.” Eric responds, “You saved yourself.”  This, more than anything, is truly significant: feminine strength and passion are a force to be reckoned with—and balancing personal aspirations with blissful relationships is more than possible: it’s worth the struggle. <em>Julie &#038; Julia</em> is a valentine to female independence, an ode to striving for what you truly enjoy.]]></description>
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		<title>Nina Simone: The Biography by David Brun-Lambert</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 14:24:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Lida</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The granddaughter of slaves on both parents’ sides of the family, Simone’s stardom coincided with the civil rights struggle in the U.S. If it is necessary to find a defining moment in her life, it may have come even earlier than the Curtis Institute rejection. At her first public concert, at age ten in Tryon’s Town Hall, her parents were asked to give up their seats to a white couple. The child protested out loud until her father and mother were allowed to stay in their places.]]></description>
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		<title>The Bolter by Frances Osborne</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/4113</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 13:05:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julia Braun Kessler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[She introduces a woman who may have upset those around her by her promiscuity, even nymphomania, drug use; but also gives us access to a fearless beauty with gifts of intelligence, wit, and extraordinary powers to attract the opposite sex. Then too, she reveals that her antics as combined with her endowments were nevertheless insufficient in her hunt for love and lasting affection.]]></description>
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		<title>The Travels of Marco Polo Translated by W. Marsden</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/3940</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 13:55:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jascha Kessler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems that world is more fantastic than our own travel brochures today can suggest for comfortable tourists. There has never been such an extensive realm, nor one with such an incredible structure of rapid communication over thousands of miles. Commerce thrived from Persia to Java, and one reason that may account for it, was order — and a flat tax of 10%. The law was strict and strictly administered everywhere, which was a marvel to Polo, in comparison with fractious Europe.]]></description>
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		<title>Marlee Matlin: Bold Moves and Few Regrets</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/3295</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 15:17:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elinor Teele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["I worry about nothing except doing work that I like and that I look at as quality work. I don’t think of legacies or what people think. They are bold moves because I’ve found I can get the most attention with doing things that people don’t expect of me. It’s just the way it is."]]></description>
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		<title>Satchmo: The Wonderful World and Art of Louis Armstrong by Steven Brower</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/3167</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 14:04:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Lida</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For someone who radiated pure joy, his beginnings were Deep South Dickensian. Born in New Orleans in August 4, 1901, his unwed mother was a sometime prostitute and his absent father worked in a turpentine factory. As an unsupervised child, he worked unloading boats and selling newspapers on the sidewalk. Evenings, he would stand outside nightclubs and listen to the great trumpet players of the day, including Buddy Bolden and King Oliver, who would later become his mentor.]]></description>
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		<title>Chasing Moonlight: The True Story of Field of Dreams&#8217; Doc Graham by Brett Friedlander and Robert Reising</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/3101</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 12:55:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elinor Teele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There's a scene in <em>Field of Dreams</em> where the camera lingers on a baby-faced baseball player wearing a New York Giants uniform. He has just seen a girl fall from the bleachers and he comes running towards her, hesitating for a fraction of a second on the edge of the grass. Then he drops his glove, takes a step and metamorphoses into the incomparable Burt Lancaster in one of his last starring roles. In an instant, Moonlight Graham has become Doc Graham, and he can never go back to the game he loved.]]></description>
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		<title>A Saint on Death Row by Thomas Cahill</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/3076</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 13:46:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Lida</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dominique’s worst luck was to have been born in Houston, Texas, the principal city of Harris County. Since 1976, Texas has executed more than four times as many prisoners as any other state, and beginning with George W. Bush’s term as governor, it became the death penalty capital of the country. Harris County has committed more people to death than any other in Texas – they’re slap-happy about vengeance.]]></description>
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		<title>Kentucky Clay, Eleven Generations of a Southern Dynasty by Katherine Bateman</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/2439</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 15:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judith Harris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“In the South, stories are the effervescence of conversation, and no stories are more gripping to an audience—relatives and stranger alike—than those about family.”]]></description>
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		<title>Erskine Childers and The Riddle of the Sands</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 14:53:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brett F. Woods</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Set against the backdrop of a yachting trip to the German coast, the story weds a tale of adventure with the reality of Britain’s imperial overreach thus beginning a genre that – as continued by the likes of Joseph Conrad, Somerset Maugham, Graham Greene, and John le Carré – has matured into one of the most popular forms of entertainment in the literate world.]]></description>
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		<title>Amarcord: Marcella Remembers by Marcella Hazan</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/2118</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 15:56:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Lida</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If we are what we eat, then Marcella Hazan, the author of what are often recognized as the best six Italian cookbooks ever published in English, has been writing her autobiography since 1973. That is the year when <em>The Classic Italian Cookbook</em>, her first effort, saw the light of day. Thirty-five years later, with increasingly sophisticated recipe books, restaurants and food industries in the United States, it is hard to remember how groundbreaking Hazan’s work has been.]]></description>
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		<title>Critics&#8217; Picks: Best Books of 2008</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Dec 2008 15:10:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Comstock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[CLR writers select the best books of 2008.]]></description>
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		<title>Hollywood  Lives: George C. Scott and Tony Curtis</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/1878</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Dec 2008 14:58:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Lida</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the airport, customs agents discovered a bag of marijuana and a handgun inside his baggage. After surrendering to the authorities, Curtis writes that he thought, “Whatever happens, it won’t be as bad as my childhood.” At age 50 – after he had been a movie star for a quarter of a century – he got to the door of the hospital room where his mother was dying from heart disease. He heard her calling his name, but could not bring himself to go inside.]]></description>
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		<title>Casanova by Ian Kelly</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/1774</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2008 14:36:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elinor Teele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ah, Casanova. Men want to be him, and women want to be with him. Or is it the other way around? He’s Romeo with cojones, Bond without the Beretta, a man more sinned with than sinning. In the annals of sexual conquest, there has seldom been a more entertaining and knowing chronicler. Casanova, according to Casanova, was a legend.]]></description>
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		<title>Frontiersman: Daniel Boone and the Making of America by Meredith Mason Brown</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/1656</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Nov 2008 15:36:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elinor Teele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was brutal stuff. Massacres, scalpings, crops burned, winters with only salted meat to eat – and this on both sides. Again Boone survived this melee, but it took a great deal of guile to do it. When his daughter Jemima was kidnapped by a Cherokee and Shawnee war party, for instance, he needed his backwoods know-how to track them down quickly and shoot the offenders.]]></description>
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		<title>Love Junkie by Rachel Resnick</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 14:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kelly Hartog</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It takes an enormous amount of courage for Resnick to put her life story on the page. Her writing is as stripped, raw and intense as her emotions, and at times you don’t want to read further. But you do, anyway, with a kind of abject horror. The two main men that parade through her life, who ultimately woo, use and abuse her are truly the type of guys your mother would warn you to stay far away from. ]]></description>
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		<title>David Harris on Bill Walsh, the Brilliant Coach of the San Francisco 49ers</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/1212</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 14:32:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Comstock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["Once, as an assistant coach at Cal, he knocked a guy out who flipped him the bird when out driving with his family. Bill got in his last known public fist fight at the age of 65. 'Genius' or not, he was not someone to be trifled with."]]></description>
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		<title>A Boy&#8217;s View of a World War</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/793</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:56:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Bridges</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The three Libby’s men were the first American businessmen to receive Allied permits to travel to the Continent. They spent most of the summer there. My father kept a journal that was full of business data but also recorded tragic scenes, including the crowds of people walking down Dutch roads, coming back from forced labor in Germany, and the almost total desolation in Hamburg, where Allied bombing raids had killed perhaps fifty thousand people and a million others fled the city.]]></description>
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		<title>Eugene Debs and the Fight for Free Speech</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/776</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:41:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Comstock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Debs was the great voice of socialism in the United States for the first two decades of the 20th century, a five-time presidential candidate for a third-party crusade against capitalism. He was a homegrown rebel, born and raised in Indiana, and a powerful speaker who knew how to translate socialism into an American idiom.]]></description>
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		<title>Remembering Nureyev by Rudi van Dantzig</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/728</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 12:19:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elinor Teele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[More intimately, van Dantzig shows us the idiosyncratic human being that powered the death-defying leaps and diamond-cut footwork. Paranoid about the KGB and Scotland Yard, perennially late to any rehearsal or engagement, often rude to his female partners, free with his sexual life at dinner parties, Nureyev comes across as a royal pain in the ass.]]></description>
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		<title>Jennifer Sey on the Harsh World of Elite Gymnastics</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/713</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:07:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Comstock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From what I witnessed, and certainly in my experience, many of the high level coaches in the 80s deployed a particularly tough approach that would be considered by outsiders to the sport, emotional abuse. As a participant, the seemingly ‘aggressive’ tactics just seemed like the norm. And I just got used to it. It didn’t seem especially awful at the time as it is what most of my friends were also going through.]]></description>
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		<title>Home: A Memoir of My Early Years by Julie Andrews</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/647</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 12:45:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elinor Teele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Again, it took an intervention, this time by Moss Hart, to point her in the right direction. She doesn't say much about what he did in the 48 hours of rehearsal that he devoted to her, but she does include one of his most memorable lines. When asked by his wife how the session had gone, he replied, "Oh she'll be fine. She has that <em>terrible</em> British strength that makes you wonder how they ever lost India." <em>My Fair Lady</em> was a hit and she belted it, day in, day out, both on Broadway and in London, fitting in her twenty-first birthday and a marriage to Tony Walton in the meantime.]]></description>
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		<title>Coffee with&#8230; Series</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/472</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:16:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elinor Teele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Barnes’s giant of the Western world is short, sharp, and funny, and well worth spending time with, even if he is, perhaps, more modern Englishman than ancient Greek in some places. As a taste of philosophical ideas <em>Coffee with Aristotle</em> is just right – now if only the longer treatises were as palatable.]]></description>
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		<title>My Father&#8217;s World</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/442</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2008 19:32:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Levitt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my father’s world, books are sacred objects. Authors are to be worshiped, especially those who write literature. Novelists, poets, and playwrights are among those ensconced in his pantheon. For my father, literature was not simply a subject he studied formally, but a larger vocation. He haunted bookstores. In Albany he sat at the feet of a man named Lockrow who owned his favorite shop, Lockrow’s Bookstore at 52½ Spring Street.]]></description>
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		<title>The Man Who Made Lists by Joshua Kendall</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/436</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2008 22:15:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julia Braun Kessler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By the end of that lecture, Roget had concluded that one of the causes of “the slow progress of human knowledge” was “the imperfections of language, both as an instrument of thought and a medium of communication.” It was on that June morning that Dugald Stewart implanted in his disciple a mission which was to occupy him for the rest of his life.]]></description>
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		<title>Comrade J by Pete Earley</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/309</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2008 15:39:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jascha Kessler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was the goings-on, the kleptocracy that emerged, the sheer blatant thuggery of Putin’s entourage, the vandalism and looting that commenced after 1989, related by Tretyakov, that finally discouraged him, a professional through and through and a Russian patriot. The principles that led to his flight into the cloaking arms of the CIA and FBI are suggestive: leaving behind all his property and possessions, amounting to about two million dollars, was worth it because in his view Russia was ruined and things had gone beyond any hope of redemption in his lifetime. He wanted his daughter to grow up a free woman.]]></description>
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