"It gives me a chance to read lots of books and more time to learn" before taking the state math and reading exams in the spring, she said.

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In the dog days of a presidential campaign, author Ana Marie Cox finds the canvas for a jaunty political farce that, as winter reading, feels light as spring.

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Watkins then played in the band his father conducted - the Spring Gardens Brass Band in Reading - of which his grandfather was also conductor and a founder member.

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The small temple, which was a Christian Science reading room until the congregation bought it in the spring of 1992, is tucked back on a winding residential street in the northern part of the city, not far from the university that shares its name with the town.

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Some 9, 000 women in Vision- Spring's network have sold 600, 000 pairs of basic reading glasses throughout seven countries, including Bangladesh, India and South Africa.

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Apart from her job as a teacher and researcher, Dajani devotes a great deal of her time to the We Love Reading program, which she founded just a few years ago, which I wrote about in the Spring, and which is already expanding into countries all over the Middle East.

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Baroque Spring will feature a mixture of music, drama and comedy, with highlights including actor Dominic West reading poetry from the period and a celebration of the 'Genius of Bach'.

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