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Review: 'One Perfect Day' by Rebecca Mead (Newsday) - ONE PERFECT DAY: The Selling of the American Wedding , by Rebecca Mead. Penguin Press, 256 pp., $25.95.

Review: Expert hands bring contrived tale alive in `Wedding' (Albuquerque Tribune) - The Danish drama "After the Wedding" is more proof of how tough it was for Oscar voters to choose a winner for Best Foreign-Language Film this year.

Review may target Hamas-tied groups (Los Angeles Times) - Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas authorized a review of all private organizations in the Palestinian areas, a sign that he may shut down Hamas-affiliated groups in the West Bank to counter the Islamist movement, which controls the Gaza Strip.

Town Throws A Dream Wedding (Hartford Courant) - Lawyer Jeffrey Smith is providing the prenuptial agreement. Floral designer Beth Carr will kick in the corsages. Chef Robert Barral of Cafe Provence is handling the cake. The reception is set for the Lilac Inn, and the rehearsal dinner is being planned at an 18th-century inn just across the street.

Movie Review: Now You Know (Smart-Popcorn) - Combined Rating: 75% (S:70%; P:82%) - Now You Know is an extremely low budget independent film, but it goes to show you that you don't need big budgets to make good entertaining films. All you need is a good script, and that's what Jeff Anderson has created here. So, if you get a chance, go to your video store and find a copy of Now You Know. Because it's a good, extremely likable movie, and also ...

Book Review: 'Throw Like a Girl' covers all the right bases (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel) - Throw Like a Girl: Stories. By Jean Thompson. Simon & Schuster. 304 pages. $13. Jean Thompson's bright, funny, searching and occasionally agonizing new collection of stories, "Throw Like a Girl," reads like an answer to Hen...

Free Press in France: The Right to Say What Politicians Want (New York Times) - The issue of self-censorship has come into sharp relief because of declining circulation and a concentration of media ownership among the new president?s allies.

Book Review: Remarkable characters populate 'Handbook to Luck' (San Antonio Express-News) - The lives of the characters in Cristina García's latest novel, "A Handbook to Luck," are driven by their beliefs in both destiny and chance.

Movie Review: A Mighty Heart (Blogcritics.org) - I went to see A Mighty Heart today because I wanted to be convinced that Angelina Jolie as Mariane Pearl would work. It didn’t. Not for me. If I could describe this movie as a food, it would be chop suey. It's a mixed-up mess of events. I could follow much of the police action because I’ve read the book, seen the many interviews, and watched a CNN special that traced all the known events ...

Chief Justice Williams tenders ‘polite’ reply to McKenna’s ‘George III’ barb political scene (The Providence Journal) - In the deliberative fashion fitting for a Supreme Court justice, Frank J. Williams, chief justice of Rhode Island’s highest court, waited a week before responding to incendiary comments Providence lawyer Keven A. McKenna made about him during a June 14 hearing before the House Finance Committee.