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Pakistan author tells of ordinary in strange times

Associated Press
Mar 22, 2009 11:00 pm - RAHIMYAR KHAN DISTRICT, Pakistan -- When Daniyal Mueenuddin's father asked him to return to Pakistan and retrieve family farmland siphoned off by unscrupulous managers, ...
Child psychologist contends Columbine shooters mentally ill

Associated Press
Mar 20, 2009 11:00 pm - OREFIELD, Pa. - Shortly after the massacre at Columbine High School, a question popped into Peter Langman's mind: What would possess a child to pick up a gun, take it to...
Book notes

By Laura Milbrath Stewart
Mar 19, 2009 11:00 pm - • Actor and author Tony Curtis signs copies of his book, "American Prince: A Memoir," before two screenings of his 1959 film "Some Like It Hot" at 7 and 9 p.m. Friday, M...
'World's smallest circus' coming to Round Lake area

By Laura Milbrath Stewart
Mar 17, 2009 11:00 pm - Cheap events? Contact Laura Stewart at lstewart@dailyherald.com Free Calling all Jedi fans! "Star Wars" fans can don costumes of their favorite "Star Wars" char...
Former Dodgers' boss O'Malley gets sympathetic bio

Associated Press
Mar 15, 2009 11:00 pm - Crowds cheered along the streets of Brooklyn on Oct. 4, 1955. Children leaned out windows to clang on pots and men took turns whacking an effigy hanging from a lamppost ...
Book signings and other events

By Laura Milbrath Stewart
Mar 12, 2009 11:00 pm - • Bryan Gruley, the Chicago bureau chief of The Wall Street Journal, signs copies of his debut novel, "Starvation Lake," at 7 p.m. Monday, March 16, at the Book Stall, 8...
First edition Harry Potter sells for $19,120

Associated Press
Mar 08, 2009 11:00 pm - DALLAS -- A softcover copy of the first Harry Potter book has sold for just over $19,000, according to a Dallas auction house. "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone"...
A desert patrol turns deadly in 'Renegades'

Associated Press
Mar 05, 2009 10:00 pm - The Antelope Valley is a vast stretch of high desert north of Los Angeles, where thousands of affordable homes have been thrown up and where urban gangs are already star...
Porn or literature? Nazi monster explains himself

Associated Press
Mar 04, 2009 10:00 pm - The narrator of Jonathan Littell's "The Kindly Ones" is a devil who wants a little empathy. Max Aue, a former officer in Hitler's paramilitary SS, would like to explain ...
'Hunting Eichmann' a fantastic true spy story

Associated Press
Mar 04, 2009 10:00 pm - In the confusion following the fall of Nazi Germany to the Allied forces in 1945, SS Lieutenant Colonel Adolf Eichmann vanished, leaving behind millions of dead includin...

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