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Heather Mallick
Canadian author
and journalist

Doris Lessing’s
2007 Nobel Speech 

“In Defence of Books”
I am standing in a doorway looking through clouds of blowing dust to where I am told there is still uncut forest. Yesterday I drove through miles of stumps, and charred remains of fires where, in 1956, there was the most wonderful forest I have ever seen, all now destroyed. People have to eat. They have to get fuel for fires.
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2006-06-02 Protect all women while they're alive
2006-05-19 Winning the war: No can mean no, if you want it to
2006-05-05 Did you hear the one about the satirist and the president? Probably not
2006-04-21 Qualified women are running for the Liberal leadership
2006-04-07 Harper falls down on important issues
2006-03-24 Just when did ethics get like this?
2006-03-10 A heartless abortion law in the U.S. heartland
2006-02-23 Public hearings for Supreme Court judges? This way madness lies
 
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