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In a week when it was hard to get away from 24/7 reports on a certain celebutante's release from prison, the National Endowment for the Arts announced a list of cities that are encouraging residents to do something that Paris Hilton probably doesn't: Read literary fiction.

The NEA awarded 117 cities, including Detroit, with grants ranging from $5,000 to $20,000 to promote "The Big Read," in which one of 12 classic American novels is chosen for a community to read together.

The Detroit Public Library picked Zora Neale Hurston's "Their Eyes Were Watching God," the 1937 novel by one of the best-known female writers of the Harlem Renaissance.

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Knocking post-jail gal pal Paris Hilton out of the spotlight, celebrity gossip site TMZ reports that pop star Britney Spears didn't need to go to rehab earlier this year, after all. As a result, she feels totally betrayed by her mom, her soon-to-be ex husband, her former manager and Promises, the rehab facility she called home for nearly a month.

TMZ cites sources saying Spears never had a drug or alcohol problem, but was railroaded into rehab by her mother Lynne Spears, ex-to-be Kevin Federline, and then-manager Larry Rudolph.

While Spears cops to having emotional problems after her second child was born and battling what was most likely post-partum depression, she maintains that she was not abusing the hard stuff.

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Three reasons why the AFL playoffs are worth watching.

Three reasons why the AFL playoffs are worth watching

1. The Storm can make history: Four teams have started 0-5 and rebounded to make the playoffs. None has ever appeared in an ArenaBowl. The Storm is also the first team in league history to start 0-5 and finish with a winning record.

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SOUTHERN PINES, N.C. — Alexis Thompson's U.S. Women's Open adventure ends today, but the golf world certainly hasn't seen the last of the 12-year-old from Coral Springs.

You can't help but wonder what she and her game will be like when she's in the same age bracket that Morgan Pressel and Michelle Wie are in now.

Boca Raton's Pressel turned 19 a month ago. She returned to Pine Needles, site of her first Women's Open as a 13-year-old in 2001, having already won a U.S. Women's Amateur and a Kraft Nabisco Championship and nearly a Women's Open, too.

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I am calling in about those crooked Republicans giving themselves another raise while they tax the poor citizens of Hamilton. People can't afford to buy their own medicine and they can tax us to death and give themselves raises ...

Regarding the candidates for Children Services director — 15, I believe — all but a few outshine and outsmart Mike Fox. None of them worked for Bob Taft, which I would consider a negative. Let's see if these commissioners can do the right thing by these children — if the Mike Fox fix is not already in.

The reason the Democrats will not attend a debate on the Fox network is because Fox is nothing but a bunch of Republican cheerleaders. It is not a true news source. They are not fair and balanced. They are completely in the pocket of the Republican Party.

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