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Conversation: Exclusive E-Books Deal Stirs Publishing World
On July 22, literary agent Andrew Wylie announced an exclusive partnership with retailer Amazon to begin selling digital versions of many classic backlist titles by authors such as Vladimir Nabokov, Philip Roth, Evelyn Waugh, Hunter S. Thompson, Salman ...
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Coburn Wins GOP Senate Nomination in Oklahoma
Incumbent Republican Tom Coburn has defeated two challengers from his own party in a primary election for a U.S. Senate seat in Oklahoma. Coburn defeated perennial candidate Evelyn Rogers of Tulsa and retired teacher Lewis Kelly Spring of Hugo on ...
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Evelyn Salt Couldve Used These Flip-Flops
Angelina Jolies cinematic alter ego, Evelyn Salt, apparently has nine lives (during Salt, the character clings onto speeding cars, navigates ledges of mile-high buildings, survives multiple gunfire bursts, and knocks out groups of massively-built ...
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Allison Silver: SALT: The Greening of Action Movies
It is clear to anyone watching Salt that there has been a sea change in action movies. Angelina Jolie, as the indomitable CIA agent Evelyn Salt, spends a lot of screentime running. The most exciting chase sequences in Salt are on foot.Salt's first ...
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'Salt' tries to shake you with its twists and turns, but it's a sham, although a well-made sham
Salt" is, quite literally, a shaggy dog story. Despite the cryptic ads that pose the question, "Who Is Salt?" and regardless of the various twists and turns designed to throw us off, the intentions of Angelina Jolie's super-spy character, Evelyn ...
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"Salt": Angelina Jolie's dazzling action spectacle
The actress takes on a role originally intended for Tom Cruise -- and delivers the best escapist film of the summer
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Weekend Movie Roundup: Evelyn Salt is Bourne
Angelina Jolie's long-awaited action-thriller Salt comes out today. Jolie plays a CIA operative who is accused of being a Russian spy and proceeds to dash around the country evading her pursuers and trying to making sense of her alleged identity....
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'Salt': Can Angelina Jolie pass THIS test?
By Lisa Schwarzbaum Lisa Schwarzbaum shares a challenge making the rounds online: Can Evelyn Salt rise to the Bechdel Test?
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Review: Angelina Jolie Is a "Deadly Weapon" in Salt
The actress kicks men's butts in the slick spy flick SaltGet more Us! Follow us on Twitter, Friend u[...]
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Review: Salt a Flavorless, Muddled Mess
Review in a Hurry: You'd hope an action thriller called Salt might at least have some kick to it and raise your blood pressure a bit. But this muddle, starring Angelina Jolie as a maybe,...
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Review: Salt
Salt has most of the ingredients for a tasty, Bourne-style espionage casserole. It just doesn't have them in the right amounts. You need action sequences, of course, and a butt-kicking hero, and a certain degree of uncertainty about whether the good ...
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Evelyn Leopold: UN Circles Wagons Against Charges It Thwarts Investigations
The United Nations this week went on the offensive to refute a blistering report that UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon deliberately crippled the agency in charge of investigations of his bureaucracy, preventing the hiring of qualified officials.The ...
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Movie Review: Salt
For the action film fan, Angelina Jolie in "Salt," is one of the best of the summer.
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3 stars for run-like-hell thriller 'Salt'
'Salt' Both are worth seeing, but "Salt" is the opposite of "Inception." It isn't trying to reinvent anyone's wheel. It's quick (under 90 minutes minus
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Survival Handbook for Agents on the Run: 10 Tips We Learned from the Movies
Pop quiz: You've been set up. You can no longer trust those closest to you and you're on everyone's most wanted list. What do you do? What do you do? If you're Evelyn Salt (Angelina Jolie), a top CIA agent who's accused of being a Russian spy, you ...
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Film Review: Salt
Angelina Jolie again proves her action bona fides in this fast-paced but ultimately silly thriller about Russian sleeper agents targeting America.
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8-Year-Old Girl Arrested for Battery and Wearing a Cow Hoodie
Evelyn Towry, an eight-year-old third grader at Kootenai Elementary School in Northern Idaho, went to school in her favorite hooded sweatshirt, which her mother had sewn ears on so that it looked like a cartoon cow from the movie Barnyard . She wanted ...
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Oakland votes to permit large pot farms
By EVELYN NIEVES 2010-07-21T07:14:18ZSAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- The Oakland City Council has approved a plan to license four production plants where marijuana would be grown, packaged and processed, moving Oakland closer to becoming the ...
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Review: 'Salt' tries to shake you, but it's a sham (AP)
AP - "Salt" is, quite literally, a shaggy dog story.
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"Salt" adds flavor to summer movie menu
Reuters - LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - She never quite says: "The name is Salt. Evelyn Salt." But Angelina Jolie, for all intents and purposes, is James Bond in her new film "Salt," and it's really no surprise that Jolie, the only female action ...
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Reader: For Their Own Betterment, Autistic Kids Belong in Their Own Schools
Reader Hyena Killer responds to Evelyn Towry's Parents Sue School Over Arrest of Their 8-Year-Old Autistic Daughter. Based on personal experience, he argues that autistic kids shouldn't be in conventional classrooms... Continue ...
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Evelyn Towry's Parents Sue School Over Arrest of Their 8-Year-Old Autistic Daughter
In January of last year, the Lake Pend Oreille School District in Idaho decided to go into Full Sphincter Mode. 8-year-old Evelyn Towry, who suffers from Asperger's Syndrome -- basically a more functioning form autism -- was pumped for a school ...
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Angelina Jolie Wants More Evelyn Salt
Angelina Jolie is keen to turn her new spy character Evelyn Salt into the new Jason Bourne, and return to the big screen for a series of sequels.
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Parents sue over school's decision to have autistic 8-year-old cuffed, arrested for battery
The parents of an 8-year-old autistic girl who was arrested at her northern Idaho elementary school are suing the school district and the sheriff's department, saying the agencies violated the A...
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Exclusive: Angelina Jolie, Back in Action
Angelina Jolie talks with "Nightline" co-anchor Cynthia McFadden about playing a CIA agent and possible Russian spy in her new movie, 'Salt,' her home life with Brad Pitt and the Jolie-Pitt breakfast routine with their six children. ...
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Faith Sustained them Through Decades of Soviet Persecution
Karl Marx stated that "the first requisite of the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion
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In the Hamptons, Going Against the Tide
Evelyn Konrad has sued Southampton, N.Y., for allowing fancy homes to be constructed in formerly middle-class areas.
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Angelina Jolie Rough in Salt Movie
Angelina Jolie looks rough in her new movie Salt. The 35-year-old beauty admits her turn as CIA officer Evelyn Salt is one of the most unglamorous roles she has ever taken on. She said, Females in those films rely on being female but we ...
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Solo Travel Hang-Ups and How to Fix Them
Traveling solo is one of those experiences that can be rewarding and life changing, but it can also be full of scary adjustments, even to the most seasoned traveler. Evelyn Hannon, solo traveling expert and editor of journeywoman.com, knows all too ...
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Playing the 'Day X Exists' 'Salt' Web Game: Day 8
The 'Salt' web game 'Day X Exists' unveiled its eighth mission yesterday. 'Salt' opens July 23, and stars Angelina Jolie as Evelyn Salt, a CIA agent who's been accused of being involved in a plot to assassinate the president. She's on the run from ...
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