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April 12, 2009 Easter Bunnies: “Girls Gone Wild” Ad Interrupts Good Friday Service Broadcast
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April 11, 2009 101 Last Suppers: Pop Culture Adaptations of da Vinci’s “The Last Supper”
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April 11, 2009 Guitar Money: Roy Rogers’ Guitar Sells for $554,500
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April 11, 2009 States of Mind: The U.S. Geography of Personality
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April 10, 2009 Signs of a Soft Economy: Vasectomies Rise During Recession
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April 10, 2009 Take the Money & Run: GOP Governors/Presidential Hopefuls Reverse Position on Stimulus Funds
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April 9, 2009 Brevity’s Rainbow: The Staying Power of the American Short Story
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April 9, 2009 Rise of the New Yiddishists, or: Contemporary Jewish Writers’ “New Sense of Jewish Identity”
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April 9, 2009 “Defiance”: Seeking A Balanced Legacy for Poland During the Holocaust
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April 9, 2009 Making Book: The Crumpled Press & The Art of Independent Bookmaking in a Digital Age
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April 8, 2009 Not for Prophet Sale: Controversial Mohammed Cartoon For Sale in Limited Edition
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April 8, 2009 1st Annual “Walking Tour of New York’s Independent Bookstores” Scheduled for May 2nd
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April 8, 2009 If These Walls Could Talk: Translating Arabic Inscriptions at the Alhambra
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April 8, 2009 Today’s Sign of the Apocalypse: Chia Obama
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April 8, 2009 Happy Endings: Recession Boosting Sales of Harlequin Romance Novels
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April 7, 2009 Sarajevo Honors Susan Sontag for “Waiting for Godot” Production
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April 7, 2009 Newly Found “Schindler’s List” Copy on Display in Australia
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April 7, 2009 All Fired Up: Kindle Users Protest Increased e-Book Prices
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April 6, 2009 R.I.P. – Robert Delford Brown (1930-2009)
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April 5, 2009 “Hope I Die Before I Get Old”: 20 Musicians Who Died at 27 (Hendrix, Joplin, Cobain, Morrison, et al)
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