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Novel paints Madame Mao in slightly softer tones

In "Becoming Madame Mao'' (Houghton Mifflin, $25), Jiang Qing, the wife of Chinese Communist leader Mao Tse-tung, is portrayed as the ruthless...

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Entertainment
This was Brainerd

...Have you noticed how it rains every time there's a golf luncheon? I think I'll take it up with the Social Committee -- Mesdames William Fitzsimnons, V.E. Quanstrom, Nesmith Nelson and Clinton Nelson. 80 years ago (1920) Headlines in Brainerd Daily...

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News
This was Brainerd

...procession, followed by a detachment of returned soldiers headed by Lieutenant Stewart Mills. 100 years ago (1899) -- Mesdames G. F. Mitchell, A. P. Farrar, and J. M. Elder, entertained a large number of their lady friends at the residence of...

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Features
Final goodbye: Roll call of some who died in 2011

...Max van der Stoel, Necmattin Erbakan, Ratu Josefa Iloilo, Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu, Leonidas Kyrkos, Hugh Carey, Garret FitzGerald...84. A Hindu guru revered by millions worldwide. April 24. Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu, 86. The outspoken beauty who served as South...

http://brainerddispatch.com/news/2011-12-16/final-goodbye-roll-call-some-who-die
News
Ask a Master Gardener

...lowest buds to encourage new shoots in the spring. Examples of Type 3 are the very hardy and popular purple 'Jackmanii' and 'Madame Julia Correvon'.Yes, most clematis varieties are listed as zones 4-9 but most zone 4 cultivars grow well here, especially...

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Lifestyle
This was Brainerd

...mysteries, stands alone in her magnificent power of reading the lives of humankind. Gives infallible advice in life, love, courtship and marriage. Locates missing property. Madame Flynn ? Palm Reading ? 507 Kingwood Street.

http://brainerddispatch.com/opinion/2011-12-13/was-brainerd
Opinion
Yanks strike swimming gold Down Under

SYDNEY, Australia (AP) -- Misty Hyman sank Madame Butterfly and Jenny Thompson snapped a tie for Olympic gold...Australia took bronze in 2:07.12. O'Neill, known as "Madame Butterfly," broke the oldest record in swimming in May at...

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Olympics
ART SHORTS

TROMMALD - "Madame Bling," a sculpture by Trommald artist Erika Hagberg, has been accepted to the Minnesota State Fair. It will be on display...

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Entertainment
Aitkin High School Choir to present Broadway musical 'The Boy Friend' next month

...by Sandy Wilson. The time is roughly 1926 and the place is "Madame Dubonnet's Finishing School for Girls" in Nice, France...matters are Polly's girlfriends (who are all boy crazy), Madame Dubonnet (who is a flirt herself) and Tony's parents, who...

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Entertainment
Doll artist from Brainerd earns grand prize at national convention

...for dolls. Photos Simpson received the grand prize in the recent Alexandra Fairchild Ford (Alex) Doll Design Contest at the Madame Alexander Doll Club convention Aug. 23-25 in Boston. Convention attendees estimated at 600 were invited to participate in...

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