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Friday, February 03, 2006

"The biggest challenge of cooking in Iraq was finding ingredients," writes Washington Post journalist Jackie Spinner, in her new book, Tell Them I Didn’t Cry. In the 10 months she spent in Iraq in 2004-2005, she found that keeping her vegetarian diet was one way to stay sane. Also:

Kicking Up The Dirt

Thomas Zambito, Manhattan Federal Court House reporter for the New York Daily News
- on suit against Christie Todd Whitman and the EPA over the air at Ground Zero

» "Judge hot over 9/11 air" by Thomas Zambito in the New York Daily News

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A Life Less Ordinary

Jackie Spinner, staff writer for the Washington Post and author, Tell Them I Didn't Cry: A Young Journalist's Story of Joy, Loss, and Survival in Iraq (Scribner, 2006) and
Jenny Spinner, assistant professor of English at St. Joseph's University in Philadelphia
- on Jackie's experiences reporting ...

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What Would Lincoln Do?

Doris Kearns Goodwin, historian, author, Team of Rivals : The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln (Simon & Schuster, 2005)
- how Abraham Lincoln kept his enemies close

» Team of Rivals (Simon & Schuster)

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i of the Tiger

Jon Fine, media columnist for Business Week
- on the resurgence of the worst hits of the 70s and 80s to iTunes

» Fine on Media, Jon Fine's blog at Business Week online

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