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11 August, 2008
The Literary Olympics
Have a go. I scored 10.8.
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Amit Varma in
Arts and entertainment at 8:10 PM
These Dreams…
This is quite the headline of the day: Dhoni’s dream of owning 9mm pistol coming true I especially like…Why You Should Steal Pigs
Because you can’t throw cows at the police. Ok? (Link via separate emails from Salil and Deepak.)
New York Cricket Club
Netherland is an Indian novel accidentally written by an Irishman
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The Desperate Passion of Ben Foster
Method acting meets controlled staginess in 3:10 to Yuma
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#106 - Generalissimo 76
Sample clues
9 across: Van Morrison classic from Moondance (7)
6 down: Order beginning with ‘A’ (12)
Bombastic Little Creep
Question by Amit Varma
This character’s creator described him as “insufferable”, and called him a “detestable, bombastic, tiresome, ego-centric little creep”. On August 6 1975, the New York Times carried his obituary, the only time it has thus honoured a fictional character. Who?
