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Saturday, 5 January 2008

An Inconvenient Year

From Dave Barry we get a retrospective of 2007. An Inconvenient Year: Relive the zany antics of Al Gore, Leonardo DiCaprio, Madonna and a cast of thousands in 12 months we need to remember to forget is published in the Washington Post.
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