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Six word memoir

Six word memoirs and summations are popular, I tried my hand at my career. Forester: cuts trees, plants and leaves.

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The Week’s What Next? Contest/Feb. 20, 2009

The Week’s “What Next?” Contest (emailed entries are due to whatnext@theweek.com by 5 p.m. Eastern Time, Monday, Feb. 16.) revolves around flight Aeroflot 315′s drunken pilot incident where passengers made enough of a fuss about the apparent intoxication of their … Continue reading

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Study Finds People Like Study Findings

THE WEEK magazine’s contest for this week involved studies that state the obvious: A new study has determined that the closer teenagers live to a lot of liquor stores, the more likely it is that they will drink. Astounding! Please … Continue reading

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Harry Splutter & the Lure of Hollyweird

Epi-soda 16 A Magical Split “It seems we’ve been carting around in the double-decker deathtrap for months,” said Der Weasel. Hermione rolled her eyes and sighed. “Look, I told you about the ‘bookmark spell’ didn’t I?” she asked exasperatedly. She … Continue reading

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Harry Splutter & the Lure of Hollyweird

A Brief Retread, er, Recap As you may recall (and simply not care, you can be that way, if you like), Harry Splutter and his friends, Hermione and Der Weasel, are on a quest to find and then destroy Horcruxes … Continue reading

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