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	<title>The Nazmanian Devil</title>
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	<description>The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.</description>
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		<title>Match point</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Went to see this Woody Allen (directing, not acting) and Scarlett Johansson (acting, not directing) movie yesterday at Spinningfields. They&#8217;ve put up a large screen in the open plaza and are showing free movies every Thursday from 8:30pm. Petra was up for the experience, and I expected to bump into some of the badminton group [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nazmania.co.uk/?p=802</link>
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		<title>Shantaram quotes &#8211; Part One</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So it begins, this story, like everything else &#8211; with a woman, and a city, and a little bit of luck. -&#8221;Everything is allow no problem here. Except the fighting. Fighting is not good manners at India Guest House&#8221;. -&#8221;You see? No problem&#8221;. -&#8221;And dying&#8221;, Prabaker added, with a thoughtful wag of his round head. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nazmania.co.uk/?p=797</link>
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		<title>Shantaram</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A novel by Gregory David Roberts, an Australian armed robber, heroin addict and prison escapee. The story is about his life on the run, beginning when he lands in Bombay as a stranger and working through extraordinary adventures living in the slums, joining the mafia, acting in Bollywood and standing with the Mujahideen, living, loving, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nazmania.co.uk/?p=795</link>
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		<title>If I list before I die, I pray the Lord to please comply</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve started a new List of Things I&#8217;d Like to Do before I Meet the Great Tortoise in the Sky. It is a work in progress and I thought it would be nice to throw it open to suggestions from my wonderfully wise and well-wandered readers. And you. Just leave a comment to this post [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nazmania.co.uk/?p=788</link>
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		<title>London, baby!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Facts and figures. Sights seen: British Museum, Kew Gardens. St. Paul’s Cathedral (in time for Sunday Mass). Hyde Park. Royal Albert Hall. Tate Modern. Hammersmith Apollo. Southbank. Regents Park. Covent Garden. Holland Park. Tower of London. Trafalgar Square. Big Ben. Marble Arch. The Burroughs. Piccadilly Circus. Leicester Square. Spitalfields. The Golden Hinde. Stag Beetles. Distance [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nazmania.co.uk/?p=783</link>
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		<title>The day Democracy took a step backwards.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For the first time in the UK an incumbent Prime Minister joined in live televised debate with the leaders of opposing parties. Liberal Democrat Nick Clegg was always going to fare better than the other two as he was going in with nothing to lose and all to gain. With Labour&#8217;s Brown and Conservative Cameron [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nazmania.co.uk/?p=775</link>
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		<title>Masters of war</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Come you masters of war You that build all the guns You that build the death planes You that build all the bombs You that hide behind walls You that hide behind desks I just want you to know I can see through your masks. You that never done nothin&#8217; But build to destroy You [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nazmania.co.uk/?p=773</link>
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		<title>..and in the news</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tragedy in Moscow. I remember when a bomb went off in the underground floor of the Okhotniyy Ryad shopping mall next to the Kremlin. This is going to have serious repercussions, with Medvedev speaking in emotive terms. Blair joins the Fray. Blair praises Brown. Desperate times with desperate measures indeed. Rooney Injured. Munich pay back [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nazmania.co.uk/?p=771</link>
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		<title>Moon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I got this film through the post (via LoveFilm) and was disappointed at seeing the title. I didn&#8217;t remember choosing it and worse, it was rated 15 (I swore to myself as a child that as soon as I could legally watch 18 Certificate films I wouldn&#8217;t bother with any other type. I mean, what&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nazmania.co.uk/?p=767</link>
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		<title>Cricket in the kitchen</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Spotted: Best newspaper story headline of the current year (so far) in the free Metro. Regarding the England Cricket team to line up against Bangladesh - &#8220;Cook copes without Onions&#8221; Captain Alastair Cook was left without bowler Graham Onions after an injury.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nazmania.co.uk/?p=764</link>
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		<title>Oumou Sangare, Orchestre Poly Rythmo de Cotonou and of course the Kalahari Surfers!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Mesdames et Messieurs, j&#8217;ai l&#8217;honneur de vais vous presenter le soir de African Soul Rebel.&#8221; Only the greatest night! Like, what, forever! It was Sunday night at the Bridgewater Hall. As ever, the moment of walking into Manchester&#8217;s Crown Jewel of Musical Experiences was one to be savoured. I had Ioan and Jessy for company, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nazmania.co.uk/?p=754</link>
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		<title>Green is the colour</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Heavy hung the canopy of blue Shade my eyes and I can see you White is the light that shines through the dress that you wore. She lay in the shadow of the wave Hazy were the visions of her playing Sunlight on her eyes but moonshine beat her blind everytime. Green is the colour [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nazmania.co.uk/?p=752</link>
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		<title>A poem from the heart</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear Valentine, Roses are red, Violets are blue, Valentine&#8217;s Day is just consumerist bullshit, Now haven&#8217;t you got some ironing to do?]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nazmania.co.uk/?p=749</link>
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		<title>The chickens come home to roost</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tony &#8220;The Lapdog&#8221; Blair will be facing questions all day today regarding decisions made to send troops in to invade Iraq. So far the questions haven&#8217;t been very probing; he&#8217;s been allowed to ramble on about his opinions by a rather deferential Chilcot &#038; Co. and seems to be in control of the proceedings even. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nazmania.co.uk/?p=739</link>
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		<title>Long time no sea</title>
		<description><![CDATA[been out-of-sight-out-of-mind for a while. here are a few snippets, in the order i recall them: 1) avatar. one heck of a film an experience. my first 3D film, IMAXed it and sat with goggles over my customary goggles, and didn&#8217;t fidget for the entire two-and-a-half hours or so. more to my surprise, i was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nazmania.co.uk/?p=728</link>
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		<title>The Night Watch</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just started reading the first of Sergei Lukyanenko&#8217;s trilogy The Night Watch and it is a rip-roaring ride. Brilliant imagination has been melded into the gritty Moscow night-time like it was written at Kurskiy Vokzal at 3 a.m. Readers fond of foreign movies might remember the film &#8216;Nochnoy Dozor&#8217; (literal translation) based on this book bursting [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nazmania.co.uk/?p=714</link>
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		<title>Kabul property prices</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Fact really is stranger than fiction. The BBC reports today that house prices in Afghanistan&#8217;s capital are soaring. Most obviously, one ex-pat has this to say:- According to Richard Scarth, day-to-day life in Kabul remains relatively unaffected despite the global downturn. &#8220;That is because the economy is UN-driven,&#8221; he says. &#8220;Money just keeps coming in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nazmania.co.uk/?p=712</link>
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		<title>&#8220;How much is too much?&#8221; aka &#8220;I&#8217;ll escalate if you&#8217;ll escalate.&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was spraying my pits with Gilette &#8220;Cool-surf-tiger-action-savannah-man&#8221; something or other this morning when I noticed that it claimed to provide &#8220;over 24 hour protection&#8221;. Now, it hasn&#8217;t escaped my notice that just 24-hour protection came before that, and I could cast my mind back to times when 12 hour protection was deemed sufficient for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nazmania.co.uk/?p=705</link>
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		<title>Finally! the recognition I deserve.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was browsing through Fopp&#8217;s last weekend, and I saw Tim Harford&#8217;s &#8216;Dear Undercover Economist&#8217; book, which is a compilation of the very best and interesting letters sent to him and his replies to them in line of his duty as a Financial Times columnist. Tim Harford has also written &#8216;The Undercover Economist&#8217; and &#8216;The Logic [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nazmania.co.uk/?p=699</link>
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		<title>Pearls before swine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[David Nutt is a professor at Imperial College London and until last week was also chairman of the UK government&#8217;s Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs. He was dismissed last week by Home secretary Alan Johnson, presumably for disagreeing with the government policy on upgrading certain Class C drugs to a Class B. Professor [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nazmania.co.uk/?p=695</link>
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