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Officials said it would ‘cause problems’ if ex-health secretary repeated allegations in memoir

“Just the facts, ma’am,” was the infamous introductory phrase Sgt. Joe Friday would use when interrogating a witness in the whodunit TV series "Dragnet." Jack Webb played Sgt. Friday during "Dragnet’s" 1951-1959 lifespan.

Original manuscript prompted warning from Cabinet Office that ex-Health Secretary's allegations would 'cause problems' for the Government

The Cabinet Office said it would ’cause problems’ if the former health secretary repeated the allegations in his memoir’.

LOS ANGELES — The publication of a new book by Dr. David Agus, the media-friendly University of Southern California oncologist who leads the Lawrence J. Ellison Institute for Transformative Medicine, was shaping up to be a high-profile event.

One often hears school libraries' decisions to remove certain books labeled "book bans." Some object: Such removals don't actually ban the book; the book remains available at bookstores, and often at public libraries. It's just that the school system has decided not to make the book available to its students…

Finding the time to relax is so important, and losing yourself in a book is the perfect way to escape and unwind. The post More than half of adults wish they read more books appeared first on Talker.

Two authors have drawn from their own lives in their new novels about women struggling with the pressures of parenthood.

Yiyun Li’s novel about the friendship of two girls in post-World War II France, “The Book of Goose,” and Dionne Irving’s “The Islands,” a story collection set everywhere from London to New Jersey, are among the finalists for the PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction