‘Renegade’ Lennox honoured to receive OBE for Aids work

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So you may not know this about me but I like to read, and I like books. I have a couple books, around 1200 at last count. Since I started getting into photography I've been trying to find a way to capture my books, but was never happy with the results. I tried taking several shelves together, just one shelf, just one row of one shelf...and so on. I found myself focusing closer and closer until I settled on a photo I was happy with, the spines of just a few.

As for the books themselves, the Proulx was all right, but I really wanted to feature two of my favorite authors, the coed tag-team champions of Canadian lit, Margaret Atwood and Timothy Findley. If you've not read either of them, get your sh*t together and get on it...

'Renegade' Lennox honoured to receive OBE for Aids work

LONDON â€" Pop star Annie Lennox said yesterday she was “genuinely honoured” to receive an OBE for her work fighting Aids and poverty in Africa despite being “somewhat of a renegade”.

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Macungie mayor vetoes tax hike

Hoffman says borough doesn't need to hire sixth full-time police officer. Macungie's mayor has vetoed a higher tax rate for 2011, saying it's too much to ask from the public and the borough can eliminate it by holding back on increasing the size of the police department that he oversees.

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Maria Cino vies to be chair of RNC

Maria Cino “should have been a nun.”

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