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Opinion: How My Father Became Cool Fighting a Book Ban
By Eugenia Kim - AOL News(Sept. 27) -- The morning after my father attended my high school's PTA meeting, teachers stopped me in the hall to say, "Your father is a remarkable man." By third period, I'd heard from two other teachers that my dad was cool. I thought my father, who rarely went to PTA meetings, was an embarrassment. He was a Korean minister and also worked for Voice of America's Korean Service. I was a 1968 hippie 11th-grader. My dad was smart, hardworking, his round head topped with thinning gray hair, sonorous on the pulpit and gullible for direct mail charity appeals. He wore black suits from Penney's. ...
Anti-Putin Books Seized in Russia
By Paul Wachter - Politics DailyOne hundred thousand copies of the book, "Putin. The Results. 10 Years On," written by opposition leaders, were seized by Russian police this week ahead of the St. Petersburg Economic Forum, where they were to be distributed. Vladimir Putin, now prime minister after two terms as president, remains Russia's most powerful political figure and consistently has pushed for greater control over media in the country. (He's expected to run again for president in 2012 and win.) In the 10 years since Putin seized control of the country, Russia's progress has been marked by corruption, cronyism and a ...
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