As seen under the tree If there's a TV fanatic in your house, here are a few gift ideas (Pioneer Press)
Regardless of whether you're shopping for a hard-to-please "mad man," the "family guy" who brings home the bacon or your favorite "gossip girl," you'll find some terrific holiday gift ideas as close as your TV set. And you don't even need cable to get started.
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Holiday Gifts: Books (The Charlotte Observer)
VARIED NONFICTION THE BACKYARD BIRDSONG GUIDE: EASTERN AND CENTRAL NORTH AMERICA: A GUIDE TO LISTENING By Donald Kroodsma (Chronicle Books, 192 pages, $24.99) This regional handbook for beginning bird-watchers includes a touch-button electronic module with vocalizations of 75 species from across Eastern and Central North America. BEST AMERICAN ESSAYS 2008 Edited by Adam Gopnik ...
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Nicole Kidman drifts about like a lost porcelain doll (Times Online)
Oh dear, oh dear. The Australians are investing a huge amount of expectation, and many millions of promotional dollars, in an epic movie intended to reinvigorate tourism and a sense of national pride.
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'24' DVD features extras you won't see on the TV broadcast (Journal & Courier)
The following DVDs are being released on Tuesday:
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Believe The HIPE (Hustle Is Posting Everyday): Volume 21 (Lords of Pain)
"I work so hard, I think I deserve a trophy.." Yung Ralph brings us today's intro line. Whether you like me or you don't like me, it's irrelevant, and I stay on my grind. To those that ride with me, I appreciate the support.
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2008 Turkey Awards (Fort Worth Weekly)
Forgive them for their sins. The news headlines of the past year – if not the last eight – have sometimes seemed like footage from some ’50s B-movie thriller, where logic is the first casualty and bad actors open doors on one inexplicable horror after another.
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Pacrim International Capital Inc. Announces Retirement of Loans (CNW Group via Yahoo! Finance)
PACRIM INTERNATIONAL CAPITAL INC. today announced completion of its previously announced intended retirement of various loans that had been made by Pacrim to a number of companies in which Guy Lam, the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Pacrim, has an interest.
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The 10 commandments of real-life wiseguys (The Globe and Mail)
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Rentrak Retail Essentials and Home Video Essentials Announces Top DVD Sales and Rentals for Week Ending November 2, 2008 (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Rentrak Retail and Home Video Essentials, business units of Rentrak Corporation , today announced the Top 10 DVD sales and rentals for the prior week based on estimated consumer spending.
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THE TOP FIVE (The Columbus Dispatch)
As pop culture goes, here's what
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