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Lucky 7

by Todd Mercer

This respected advertising and fashion executive turned author reaches beyond workaday creativity with "Lucky 7" a subtle literary collection of small-frame classy tributes to women on pedestals. The lost art of the indirect voice is... Read More

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History of U.S. Television

by Leonard Jacobs

Some of the terminologies once considered common regarding television are now quaint parlance of another era. Who for one still complains about their “rabbit ears”? Just imagine how Lawrence H. Rogers II who began his long and... Read More

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Palm Island--Paradise Lost

by Laurie Sullivan

Divorce has been described as the psychological equivalent of a coronary by-pass; Teddy Tarr would likely agree. She tells a sadly familiar tale describing a comfortable life as a successful psychologist and complacent wife that was... Read More

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A Wealth of Family

by Todd Mercer

As a boy, Thomas Brooks unconsciously began to build his skills as a uniter. When an economic situation forced his (adoptive) mother Joan to make moves between neighborhoods on the North Side of Pittsburgh, Brooks journeyed miles on... Read More

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Citizen Moore

by Carol Haggas

Love him or hate him, Michael Moore’s in-your-face style of documentary filmmaking wins him as many foes as it does fans. Widely perceived as an unabashed liberal, Moore’s public image has not always been grounded in fact. Enter... Read More

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Jacko, His Rise and Fall

by Elizabeth Millard

Although Michael Jackson has stayed out the public eye for the past few months, his tale is well known to legions of celebrity gossip mongers: a talented young kid who got off track, destroyed his face through too much plastic surgery,... Read More

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Freud's Wizard

Don’t judge a movement by its earliest adepts, advised Friedrich Nietzsche. He might have been talking about psychoanalysis, except that he died in 1900, the year that Sigmund Freud gave birth to the idea by publishing The... Read More

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When You Fall Down - Get Up!

by Todd Mercer

In the 1970s Ella Coney lived the sort of life which conservative pundits cite anecdotally to encourage further reductions in government social programs for the poor. The one-time wife of a Denver policeman is arrested for shoplifting in... Read More

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