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Article: The antichrist of North Carolina.
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- The Progressive
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- September 1, 2003
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When I was in Scandinavia last spring promoting Nickel and Dimed, interviewers kept asking me to tell them about the "debate" my book had provoked in the United States. I had to confess that it had provoked no debate at all, at least none that I had heard of. In fact, when my book was adopted by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as a reading for all incoming students in 2003, the administration expressed its conviction that it was a "relatively tame selection," at least compared to last year's choice--a collection of readings from the Koran. I was beginning to envy Michael Moore, whose publisher had cleverly boosted sales by attempting to suppress his book ...
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... ... of Barbara Ehrenreich's "Nickel and Dimed"? Hold on. With its activist bent and ... level workers, the play "Nickel and Dimed" has pushed the envelope at the Guthrie ... extended. But at the Lab, "Nickel and Dimed" (also extended) has shifted audience ...
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