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This is a discussion board about almost anything. Here you can meet interesting people, hear different opinions, and engage in small talk. The only requirement is that the subject is interesting!

Movie Review: Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows (1968)

"Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows" is a sequel, of sorts, to 1966's charming "The Trouble With Angels". This sequel stays with the nuns of St. Francis and their school for girls. This time there is a spirited young nun named Sister George (Stella Stevens) who manages to talk the bishop into allowing...

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Book Review: Left Behind: The Rising - LaHaye and Jenkins

"The Rising" is the latest (thirteenth) volume in the Left Behind series. Rather than attempting to continue the story which supposedly concluded with the return of Jesus in "Glorious Appearing", "The Rising" is a prequel. It tells what happened before the Rapture. This novel focuses on Marilena...

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new Fitgerald running book

Answered by a doctor

Elite runners have long relied on technology to analyze performance, maximize training, and challenge the competitive boundaries of the sport. Serious runners long sought the same advantages only to be confronted with a costly and complicated process. Not any longer. The Runner's Edge takes you...

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Movie Review: Million Dollar Baby (2004)

The more I think about this movie, the more I love it. I am fully convinced that Clint Eastwood is becoming a better filmmaker with each passing year. Million Dollar Baby is a movie about Frankie (Eastwood), a grizzled old "cut-man" who owns a boxing gym. He is the type of man who was old...

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Movie Review: Dirty Dancing (1987)

A film by Emile Ardolino This is perhaps the one movie that I never expected to ever watch. Nothing that I had heard about it made it sound like something I would have any interest in whatsoever. I had even less of an expectation that should I actually see the movie that I would actually like it....

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Book Review: Holding the Line - Barbara Kingsolver

In "Holding the Line", author Barbara Kingsolver ("The Poisonwood Bible", "Animal Dreams") offers us an account of the strike at the 1983 Morenci Copper Mine in Arizona. Kingsolver was working as a reporter at the time and spent quite a bit of time with the women involved in the strike. She gives...

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Book Review: The Plot Against America - Philip Roth

In "The Plot Against America" Philip Roth asks the question "What if Charles Lindbergh, instead of FDR, was elected to the Presidency in 1940?" After Lindbergh made his famous transatlantic flight, and after his child was kidnapped and later found dead, Charles Lindbergh began speaking out about...

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Book Review: The Coma - Alex Garland

A man sits by himself on a subway and watches a group of teenagers harass a woman and try to steal her purse. She gets away from them and moves closer, sitting down next to the men. The teenagers follow and try again to grab the woman's purse. This time the man stands up, raises his arm, and says...

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Book Review: The Dancing Mind - Toni Morrison

The Dancing Mind is not your typical book. It is not a fiction book, nor is it really a non-fiction book. The Dancing Mind is a speech Toni Morrison gave when she accepted The National Book Foundation Medal. This is a very slim volume, coming in at only 17 pages, but it is an opportunity to read...

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Movie Review: The Wedding Crashers

Anyone who's seen the trailer knows the basic premise; two guys crash weddings in the hopes of meeting gorgeous women. Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson are divorce mediators who spend their weekends crashing weddings and getting laid as much as is humanly possible. The first half of this movie went...

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