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Culture




A not-so-clean getaway

October 4 - 11, 2006
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The getaway car skidded to a halt. Jack grabbed the money from the back seat and sprinted off, for his own vehicle was parked nearby.





Third Reich epic set for bidding battle

October 4 - 11, 2006
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It is 900 pages of closely typed text, in French, with harrowing details of torture, mass executions, the bureaucratic battles at the heart of the Third Reich, incest, matricide and homosexual encounters — and now it has sparked an international publishing feeding frenzy.





Lawrence of Arabia mementoes fetch $550,000 at Christie’s auction

October 4 - 11, 2006
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The compass which helped to create the legend of Lawrence of Arabia, steering him across the desert on a camel during the Arab revolt against the Turks in 1916-18, has been sold for $494,146, together with a cheap watch and an inscribed cigarette case.





Student finds Frost poem lost for 88 years

October 4 - 11, 2006
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A poem by Robert Frost that has lain unpublished and forgotten for 88 years has been rediscovered by a student in Virgina. The poem, War Thoughts at Home, casts light on the development of Frost’s First World War poetry.





Review

October 4 - 11, 2006
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The Last Town on Earth
Thomas Mullen
Random House; 416pp