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  • But Simon Jenkins, author of a book on England's 1, 000 best houses, points out that the first aristocrats who opened their doors to the prying public were masters at giving the customers what they wanted.

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  • Javier Rebolledo, author of a book about human rights violations carried out by the secret police under military rule, had his computer hard disk stolen and Cristobal Pena, who wrote a political thriller set in the Pinochet era, had his entire computer stolen, Mr Weibel told Chilean radio.

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  • The area around Jalalabad was once home to al Qaeda training camps, and features several complexes of tunnels and caves -- including some built with U.S. assistance during the Afghan war against the Soviets in the 1980s, said Larry Goodson, author of a book on two decades of Afghan conflict.

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  • In these films, "female friendship supersedes heterosexual romance, " says Leger Grindon, a professor of film and media culture at Middlebury College and the author of a 2011 book about the genre.

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