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Peter Nixon
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Sunday, 29 December 2002
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Saturday, 28 December 2002
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Felicity and I saw Possession yesterday. She had read the novel by AS Byatt and warned me that it might be too girly for me. Certainly not! I loved it and also accepted that the book must have been so much better in that it had the written voices of the various characters writing formal letters, love letters, poetry and so on.
11:07:38 PM 
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Friday, 27 December 2002
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"Goss" pointed this one out to me. My daughter Zenna has since seen the movie. Boy!
Bowling for Columbine
In the film, (Michael) Moore takes two Columbine victims, with bullets still
lodged in their bodies, to Kmart's headquarters, essentially to return the
merchandise. The company brushes him off, but he returns the next day with a
gaggle of reporters. The swiftness with which the company agreed to stop
selling ammunition for handguns and assault weapons left Moore stunned.
9:46:38 AM
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my last story. Earlier this week the White House complained about my last story five days after it was published. Obviously, their software figured out it was my birthday and knew what I wanted. :-)
[Paul Boutin]
8:37:39 AM
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I've just finished Jeanette Winterson's novel the.powerbook, which is credited to jeanette.winterson. She's back on form in my opinion.
You would probably guess that it involves some kind of online reference and of course it does.
Apart from the title there are perhaps a few clues as to what kind of computer she uses.
Chapter headings such as EMPTY TRASH, SPECIAL, SHOW BALLOONS, CHOOSER pretty much give the game away.
8:12:06 AM
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Thursday, 19 December 2002
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Tuesday, 17 December 2002
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Lott: It gets worse. Troubling new disclosures about the Senate's top Republican and his record on race relations raise questions about his fitness for office.
[Salon.com]
4:25:32 PM
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Monday, 16 December 2002
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Lott's amnesia. The senator says he can't fully recall Thurmond's racist presidential run. Here's a refresher course: A 1948 ballot decrying "anti-lynching" legislation, and a letter to Lott from a racist supporter.
[Salon.com]
8:44:43 PM
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Friday, 13 December 2002
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Thursday, 12 December 2002
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Wednesday, 11 December 2002
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Tuesday, 10 December 2002
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Sunday, 8 December 2002
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Saturday, 7 December 2002
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Friday, 6 December 2002
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Thursday, 5 December 2002
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Monday, 2 December 2002
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NC State Offers Online Homework System. Students at more than 280 schools nationwide are having their homework automatically graded online with WebAssign, an online assessment service developed at North Carolina State University that enables teachers to distribute, collect, grade and record assignments quickly and accurately over the Internet.
[Educational Technology]
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Sunday, 1 December 2002
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