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		<title>Foreign Press Association award</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Foreign Press Association award The Sunday Times Magazine writer David James Smith has won the prestigious Foreign Press Association award for Best Feature (print/web) for his cover story on the people who jumped from the Twin Towers on 9/11. His article was commended by the judges as “an exceptionally moving and compelling piece of reporting [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidjamessmith.net/home-page-posts/2011/12/1247/</link>
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		<title>The Sleep Of Reason reissued</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Sleep Of Reason reissued Buy from Amazon Friday, February 12 1993. Two outwardly unremarkable ten-year-old boys, Robert Thompson and Jon Venables, began their day playing truant and ended it running an errand for a local video shop. In between they abducted and killed the toddler James Bulger. The Sleep of Reason is the harrowing, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>September 4th, 2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On the cover of The Sunday Times Magazine...
 
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<a href="http://www.davidjamessmith.net/articles/">And they leapt into the unknown</a>]]></description>
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		<title>August 28th, 2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The secret torments of  John Galliano John Galliano’s anti-semitic outburst in a Paris cafe cost him the top job in fashion. He had already lost his closest friend and colleague, Steven Robinson. The sordid reality of Steven’s death and its impact on the designer has gone unreported — until now. David James Smith investigates read [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sleep Of Reason with new preface</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Sleep Of Reason &#8211; The James Bulger Case by David James Smith: Faber Finds edition with new preface, available September 15th, 2011.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidjamessmith.net/latest-news/2011/06/1203/</link>
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		<title>Yound Mandela film</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Young Mandela the movie – in development. From The Guardian Read the article In the Diary column of The Independent, April 13th, 2011 More on my previously unsubstantiated claim that the writer-director Peter Kosminsky, creator of The Promise, is working on a drama about Nelson Mandela. I&#8217;ve now learnt that the project is a feature [...]]]></description>
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		<title>March 3, 2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On the cover of The Sunday Times Magazine...
 
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<a href="http://www.davidjamessmith.net/articles/">Misshapen identity</a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidjamessmith.net/2011/2011/04/1170/</link>
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		<title>New York Times &#8211; J. M. Ledgard</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nelson Mandela was circumcised as a 16-year-old boy alongside a flowing river in the Eastern Cape. The ceremony was similar to those of other Bantu peoples. An elder moved through the line making ring-like cuts, and foreskins fell away. The boys could not so much as blink; it was a rite of passage that took you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidjamessmith.net/young-mandela-reviews/2011/02/1162/</link>
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		<title>Booklist (journal of the American Library Association) – Hazel Rochman</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Neither saint nor icon, South Africa’s world-famous leader is still very much a hero in this close-up dramatic biography, both personal and political, about his activist years in the underground before he was sentenced to life in prison. Readers will want to read this one not only because British journalist Smith integrates all the histories [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidjamessmith.net/young-mandela-reviews/2010/12/1154/</link>
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		<title>The Associated Press – Carl Hartman</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nearly half a century ago, a South African judge pronounced a life sentence against Nelson Mandela for planning guerrilla war against the racist state. Mandela had expected hanging and, with his co-defendants, decided in advance not to appeal. &#8220;Young Mandela: The Revolutionary Years&#8221; — at age 46 Mandela hadn&#8217;t yet lived half his life — [...]]]></description>
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