General Assembly should be accepting such frills as air tickets from member states, as well as how, exactly, the payments were arranged, or logged in by U.N. book-keepers.

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"They brought us a book called 'Rock 'n' Roll Billboards of the Sunset Strip' and said, 'This is what we want, ' " Mr. Stringer said.

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Even before the book was finished, Marberry approached the artistic director of McCarter Theatre in Princeton, N.

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Apart from much jetting around and private palaver among eminent people under U.N. auspices, the chief visible product of the Dialogue was a report, released in book form in the fall of 2001.

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"I know that there is a lot of buying online, but I like crawling through the stacks and holding a book in my hands, " says Jim Nottingham, a business development consultant who lives in Millwood, N.

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