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Kevin Wood / Daily Yomiuri Staff Writer Never Mind the Pollacks By Neal Pollack Harper Collins, 259 pp, 23.95 dollars ...

An excellent, well sourced list of the real State of the Union in the USA from the Independent in the UK

Kevin Wood / Daily Yomiuri Staff Writer A Prayer for America By Dennis Kucinich Thunder's Mouth Press/Nation Books 141 pp...

"Rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read," - Frank Z...

The Prayer By Mark Twain It was a time of great and exalting excitement. The country was up in arms, the war was on, in every breast bur...

From the Anglican Diocese of Sault Ste. Marie, those fine folks in the Sault who brought you the ban on Monty Python's life of Brian and...

Absolutely chilling, and you needn't be a conspiracy monger to think the fix may already be in for 2004. this article is just plain sca...

there is nothing like reasonable, informed, logical political debate. Unfortunately in there doesn't seem to be much of that coming from...

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain Read by Patrick Fraley Audio Partners 6 CDs, 7.5 hours The unabridged audiobook of The...

In Your Ear Kevin Wood / Daily Yomiuri Staff Writer VARIOUS ARTISTS Concert for George Warner, 3,400 yen (CD) Whether you view t...

I didn't even know he was sick Some people have way way way too much time on their hands http://uberkinder.5u.com/paul/index.html

Bill Moyers is God! I wish I had said this but he did. And it is brilliant

Panorama of history, science and comedy Kevin Wood Daily Yomiuri Staff Writer Quicksilver By Neal Stephenson William Morrow, 926 p...

Star-spangled sissies Canadian flag causes flap in the U.S. Maple Leaf on baggage irks 'sensitive' Americans Jack Aubry ...

by Clifford Krauss • Wednesday December 03, 2003 at 10:20 AM From gay marriage to drug use to church attendance, a chasm has opened up ...

Last month's CD review Robert Randolph and the Family Band JapanTour -- Dec. 9 - 12 The cat is out of the bag on one of the best ke...

Baker praises Japan's Iraq efforts Kevin Wood / Daily Yomiuri Staff Writer U.S. Ambassador to Japan Howard Baker said Thursday t...

an interesting account of how late night yakfests can have a lasting effect, especially if two of the yakkers are JRR Tolkien and CS Lewis

hockey the way it was meant to be played

'scuse me whilst I dance the happy-happy-joy-joy dance and break out the champagne Robber baron lord Tubby of Fleet gets his