12 November 2009: Afternoon
By The Morning News
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China to open agricultural technology centers in Mozambique; China to gain low-cost rice and produce.
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Cuteness has invaded our culture and our minds, disempowering Americans everywhere.
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On Nabokov's behalf, Hemon condemns the "gloating, greedy world of academics, publishers, and all the other card-shuffling mediocrities."
Monologues of a gamer recording every impression as he plays his way through games he doesn't really like.
Charlie Brown, darkly reinterpreted.
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