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Monkey See
10:44 am
Tue October 16, 2012

Best Friends And Broken Hearts

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Originally published on Fri October 19, 2012 3:43 pm

This week at Monkey See, we're looking at friendship in pop culture.

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Monkey See
6:34 am
Tue October 16, 2012

A Judge Dismisses 'The Bachelor' Discrimination Lawsuit, But Not Its Concerns

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Seen here in April 2012, Christopher Johnson and Nathaniel Claybrooks sued over the casting of The Bachelor.
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Yesterday, a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit brought by Christopher Johnson and Nathaniel Claybrooks, two black men who had auditioned for The Bachelor, who claimed that the show discriminates against people of color both in choosing the primary bachelor/ette and in choosing the people he or she will have to choose from.

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Books
6:03 am
Tue October 16, 2012

'Round House' Is One Of Erdrich's Best

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Louise Erdrich's debut novel, Love Medicine, won a National Book Critics Circle Award in 1984. Her other books include The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse and The Plague of Doves.
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I've devoted many hours in my life to reading, and among these hours many of them belong to the creations of novelist Louise Erdrich. In more than a dozen books of fiction — mostly novel length — that make up a large part of her already large body of work, Erdrich has given us a multitude of narrative voices and stories. Never before has she given us a novel with a single narrative voice so smart, rich and full of surprises as she has in The Round House. It's her latest novel, and, I would argue, her best so far.

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The Salt
2:03 am
Tue October 16, 2012

Urban Parisian Vines Produce Wine With A Drop Of History

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Crowds watch as Clos Montmartre's grapes are harvested during its annual October wine festival.
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Clos Montmartre is about the size of a city block.
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Originally published on Tue October 16, 2012 9:45 am

In America, vineyards are usually tucked in out-of-the-way rural areas, among country lanes. But in France, where great wine is a way of life, vineyards are everywhere — even in the middle of the country's biggest city.

High on the hills of the neighborhood of Montmartre in Paris is Clos Montmartre, the city's last working vineyard.

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Books
2:00 am
Tue October 16, 2012

Technology Helps Track A Terrorist In 'The Finish'

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Mark Bowden's previous books include Black Hawk Down and Guests of the Ayatollah.
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Originally published on Tue October 16, 2012 9:45 am

In late summer 2010, at the end of a morning briefing, one of President Obama's security advisers said, "Mr. President, Leon and the guys at Langley think they may have come up with something." The adviser was referring to then-CIA Director Leon Panetta, and to a possible lead on the country's most wanted terrorist: Osama bin Laden.

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