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Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Odds and Sods

Makkah is a holy city, but it's also a city in transition, and Raja Alem has given a literary nod to this concept in her novel "The Dove's Necklace," which has just won the International Prize for Arabic Fiction, also known as the "Arabic Booker." The prize was announced on Monday.


A Vermont neighborhood is being stalked by a renegade gray squirrel. Several people in Bennington say they've been attacked by a squirrel over the last few weeks.

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