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Boobs and Books --Scotsman.com, 9/07
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/f0630e23-ed00-4089-aae7-096850674476/737CEEFD-90A5-49F0-8632-B5C1B5611B66/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/review.cfm?id=1515152007" href="http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/review.cfm?id=1515152007" style="font-size: 11px;">scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/review.cfm?id=1515152007">the Literary Editors High Council last week</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/review.cfm?id=1515152007">were meeting, as usual, in our Ivory Tower of Envy (you see, the bloggers and aggrieved writers are right), planning the triumph of elitism and phoning up children to tell them Santa Claus is a fiction. We'd decided who was going to win the Booker, and it came to Any Other Business.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/review.cfm?id=1515152007">"So, Darth Caledonia," said one of my colleagues (we all call each other Darth, by the way)</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/review.cfm?id=1515152007">"See for yourself, Darth Tory."</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/review.cfm?id=1515152007">The Daily Sport was running book reviews.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/review.cfm?id=1515152007">Admittedly, they ran 274 fewer literary reviews than the number of pictures of breasts they printed, but it's books coverage nonetheless.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/review.cfm?id=1515152007">But why? 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