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Thought For The Week
"There's nothing simpler than looking at the goodness in other people. The difficult part is to tell them what you see."
The opening lines to John Mooney's 2005 children's story "A Wonderful Story"
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What's new?
- A review of the new super-hero movie "Avengers Assemble"
- A review of the moving novel "Far To Go"
- A review of the Woody Allen movie "Midnight In Paris"
- A review of a new book on the struggle for Internet freedom
- A review of the new hit movie "The Hunger Games"