Rules for writing from writers

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The world is full of rules. First, there were the 10 commandments (we're purposely ignoring the ethical Greeks and others before them). Bill Maher ends his show with "new rules". APA and MLA have their own citations rules. There's a guy who even wrote Rules for life, work, management. Before we delve in any of those, we need to follow a few basic rules of writing.

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82nd Oscars 2009-2010 nominees – picks and predictions

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With the Oscars approaching, we decided to make a list of the movies nominated, including their IMDB ratings and Amazon links.

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70s wizards: Herbie Hancock, Bill Withers, MOD MID

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There were some truly amazing pearls in the generally annoying rubble as I like to call the musical landscape of those times. Yet I find myself inexorably attracted to it, partly because my parents were back then not only alive but young. And Herbie Hancock & Bill Withers, these not-known-well-enough giants, stand up.

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RIP JD Salinger

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It is extremely difficult to pay your respects to an author whose book you haven't read. None of us has read catcher in the rye. We lived it.

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Moleeds, stamps and copyrights

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Charles Fleischer's very recent stand-up number at TED Talks is based on stamps. He claims that this is so because he doesn't have to worry about copyrights. We happen to disagree.

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