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Sunday Book Reviews

“Audition: A Memoir” (Knopf Publishing Group, 448 pages) by Barbara Walters.
May 11, 2008

Barbara Walters puts life on display with book ‘Audition’



    NEW YORK (AP) — No one doubts she’s hard-driving. But she has never learned to drive, Barbara Walters reveals in her new memoir, ‘‘Audition.’’


    She also discloses that she looks better on camera when shot from the left — advice she got from Sir Laurence Olivier when interviewing him in 1980.


    And she allots six pages from the book’s 612 for a startling confession: Her ‘‘long and rocky affair’’ in the 1970s with a politician who was married and — further upping the ante — an African American. This covert romance between U.S. Sen. Edward Brooke and Walters, then co-host of NBC’s ‘‘Today’’ show, made headlines (and raised eyebrows) when it was leaked last week.

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More than 700 graduates

May 10, 2008

Jacqueline Prellwitz recalled racing back from a state track meet to attend her high school graduation, still wearing dirt-stained tennis shoes. She wore a pair of nicely tended red high heels for her graduation from Minot State University Friday.

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Exchanging mascots across the states

May 6, 2008

First-graders at Washington Elementary have been getting a lesson in geography along with e-mails from students in other states.

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Sunday Book Reviews

May 6, 2008

Author of ‘Running with Scissors’ goes back to early years





    Imagine all the terrible things that could possibly happen in childhood and you’ll find them in Augusten Burroughs&r

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Edison fourth-graders take on the greater U.S.

May 6, 2008

Fourth-graders at Edison Elementary are now experts on these 50 United States.



Teacher Melissa Stanley had each of the students in her class research a state where they might want to live.

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Newspaper in Education - Lewis & Clark North Shore High School in Makoti

May 6, 2008

I am a social studies teacher and currently have a class of senior government students and high-school current events students who use the newspaper during lessons at Lewis & Clark-North Shore High School in Makoti.

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