WOODSTOCK, Vermont (Reuters) – The town of Woodstock, Vermont, boasts all the 19th century charm that draws tourist to New England: white picket fences, steepled country churches and a leafy town square.

But two days after Hurricane Irene dumped heavy rains on the inland state, flooding many low-lying towns and killing at least three people, Woodstock had some other 19th-century qualities that tourists do not prize: no running water or electricity.

“I couldn’t believe it when they started directing people to the port-a-potties on the town green. That’s sacrosanct, you usually can’t do anything there without a permit,” said Hasse Halley, a 70-year-old teacher who lives in the town.

Lack of basic services was just one of the many worries facing residents of the mountainous, rural New England state. Another concern was the storm’s heavy toll on Vermont’s valley roads, some 260 of which were damaged or washed away entirely in the storm, making travel a treacherous and time-consuming affair.

Thirteen towns were entirely cut off as a result of road damage, said Mark Bosma, a spokesman for the Vermont Division of Emergency Management. Five hundred state workers had been deployed to begin clearing and repairing the damage.

The state’s death toll is expected to rise to four as one person washed away in Sunday’s flood water is still missing, officials said.

All rivers in the state with the exception of Otter Creek in Rutland had receded below flood stage by Tuesday, according to Michael Muccilli, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Burlington.

Vermont is the northeastern U.S. state worst hit by the storm, which killed at least 38 people in 11 states.

THE ‘WORST’ TIME FOR A STORM

For people who depend on tourism, a significant chunk of the state’s economy, that damage raised the worry that visitors would have a hard time making it through the state, or stay away entirely, during the normally busy fall season, which draws visitors to see colorful foliage.

“Of all the times of year for this to happen, this is the worst. We’re heading into the foliage season and then the ski season,” said Steve Ranoushek, an employee at the Woodstock Farmers Market. “If people can’t get up to Killington, or can’t come through Woodstock on their way to Killington, that’s going to effect us.”

On Tuesday, Ranoushek and a dozen other people were working to clean out the 19-year-old store, which had been filled with a foot of mud on Sunday after the Ottauquechee River flooded during the heavy rains brought on by Irene.

Ranoushek said he hoped his business would be able to reopen in a few weeks, which left him in a better position than the owners of many businesses in downtown Wilmington, where many buildings were left unusable by heavy flooding.

“There is not a business here that is going to be able to open in a month,” said Joel Berg, whose wife’s store, Picknell’s Barn, was shuttered by the flooding. “Who has the money to rebuild?”

The storm’s localized damage — largely confined to low-lying areas — surprised many in the state, which is unaccustomed to hurricane damage due to its distance from the ocean.

“We live up on a hill and we thought it was just a heavy rainstorm,” said Barbara Loftus, 58, while working the breakfast shift at Dot’s Diner in West Dover, Vermont. “When we went down to town we were shocked.”

(Reporting by Scott Malone)

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Published August 30th, 2011 – 10:10 GMT

Egyptian actress Ghada Abd Al Raziq announced that she will be getting married to journalist Mohammad Fawdah in the very near future, but has not yet specified a certain date.

Ghada’s last marriage had ended in 2009 from producer Waleed Al Tabi’ee, whom she was married to twice the first time for a period of one year and the second time for a period of two years. The second divorced occurred after Ghada and Waleed had worked together in the film “Azmat Sharaf” (A Matter of Honor), during which problems escalated between the two leading to a quick divorce.

Shortly after her divorce from Waleed, Ghada got engaged to Mohammad Fawdah and held a private engagement attended by close friends and family members. Only a short period into her engagement, Ghada separated from Mohammad due to incompatibility, but recently the couple worked out their differences and decided to get married again.

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SANTA FE, New Mexico (Reuters) – Starting on Monday tens of thousands of people will descend on a great expanse of Nevada desert to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Burning Man, a gathering of free spirits, artists, entrepreneurs — and anyone else who managed to get a ticket.

Several thousand more would-be participants will have to wait until next year, as 2011 marks another historic milestone: the first time the event has ever sold out, said Burning Man communications manager Andie Grace.

According to an agreement with the Bureau of Land Management, the event is permitted an average of only 50,000 people per day, Grace said.

The theme of this year’s festival, “Rites of Passage,” is an appropriate one as it also previews a change in the structure of the California-based Black Rock City, L.L.C., which runs the event, from a for-profit organization to a not-for-profit that will continue to promote the festival’s ideology throughout the year.

“It’s a logical extension of what happens here, and of taking our principles into our own communities,” said Grace, referring to 10 principles including civic responsibility, communal effort, and being noncommercial and based on giving.

Through the group’s not-for-profit outreach, Burning Man will become “a state of being that exists all the time,” Grace said.

That state of being has beckoned its devotees, mostly through word of mouth (organizers do no self-promotion or advertising), into the Black Rock Desert in increasing numbers for more than two decades.

They travel like pilgrims from faraway lands ready to confront the possibility of dust storms, extreme temperatures, and drenching rainstorms in order to live for one week in a self-made and participatory community that bases itself on acceptance, self-reliance, self-expression and creativity.

REMOTE, FEW RULES

There is nothing to buy on the remote expanse of sand about 120 miles north of Reno, save precious coffee and bags of ice, and few rules beyond protecting health and safety, and active participation in the ever-evolving community formation.

Though the event has grown each year, it’s those principals that keep people like 52-year-old Michael Marin coming back for more.

“It is such a blessed relief to be accepted on your own terms without expectations to be anything else,” he said.

Marin, a retired financial investment banker and airplane enthusiast from Arizona, has attended the event since 2003, when he came across an aviation listserv discussing logistics of flying an airplane into the makeshift festival airport.

“The quality of exchanges and knowledge of information really impressed me.”

He was also impressed by the noncommercial nature of the festival that pushed people “past bartering and into a gift economy”, a sense of giving that would spread exponentially throughout the community, he said.

“Soon you end up with 50,000 people trying to pay it forward,” he said, referring to individuals feeling so appreciative they in turn do a good deed for someone else.

For Hannah Hoel, it was the art that inspired her to attend Burning Man for the first time in 2008. Living in New Mexico, Hoel, 27, heard from friends that it was a creative gathering with a lot of astounding artwork.

“I really needed a creative outlet, so I went,” she said. Her first experience, however, was jarring and left her lonely and anxious for several days, no doubt aided by a massive dust storm upon her arrival. “It wasn’t a great first day.”

But the art did indeed persist, and two years later, she is ready to go again, and to bring her boyfriend, Eden Kark.

TICKET SCRAMBLE

The festival may be noncommercial once inside, but money and supply and demand are involved when it comes to tickets. Kark, 44 and a doctor of Oriental medicine, waited until the last moment to buy his ticket, only to find the event had sold out.

Given that he and Hoel had already rented an RV for the week, to the tune of $2,200, not having a ticket wasn’t an option, he said.

“If I was going to go, I was going to go in comfort, but now I needed to find a ticket.”

Kark and Hoel trolled websites for days trying to locate an extra ticket, encountering scalpers hawking tickets for prices substantially above the original value.

Official ticket prices range from $210 and rise to $360 as the event nears. Kark settled on a $450 ticket; a bargain, considering the possible loss at hand.

Burning Man didn’t always have an RV renting crowd, an airport, or a surge of 50,000 people to contend with. It began in 1986 on a beach in California when Larry Harvey, now 63, and friend Jerry James decided to burn an 8-foot effigy built in honor of summer solstice.

By 1990 the burn was moved into the remote and barren Black Rock Desert, where the event has accumulated an increasing number of participants every year.

The number of activities has also increased and according to this year’s list includes anything from cooking classes to dances; face painting and rollerblading; yoga courses and Bocce Ball tournaments.

There’s a pancake house, 12-step groups, legal advice and snuggle puddles; kite flying, language exchange, a bike shop (transport around the desert is by bicycle only, unless one has an art car permit), and a family-friendly area.

All of this culminates on Saturday, with the burning of a 50-foot-tall effigy of a man.

LOGISTICAL FEAT

The mushrooming crowds are a logistical feat to manage, requiring 35 full-time and eight part-time staff; and thousands of volunteers who each year design and create a city complete with street names and numbers, a postal service, a central gathering tent, and porta-potties for thousands.

Notable is the lack of any garbage bins. It’s part of the self-reliance principle and strict policy that whatever one brings in one must also take out.

The few rules leave plenty of room for creativity, seen in people’s daily costumes as well as in art installations, often massive in size, that dot the desert basin.

The art this year includes an enormous installation by Jim Bowers — a 15-year “burner,” as veterans call themselves — said to be the world’s largest timepiece.

The clock, made of lasers and designed by a “dream team” of UC Berkeley physicists and scientists, will have a 3-and-1/4 mile circumference and a diameter of 1.27 miles, said Bowers.

Bowers, 55, has been working on the $50,000 art project for the entire year, and has incorporated 4×6 foot paintings in each of 12 towers, painted by 67 different artists.

Reflecting on the event’s 25-year anniversary, he said, “It’s not any better, it’s not any worse. It’s just different.”

He has seen change in the growing percentage of spectators versus participants. Where the entire community once would participate, “now it’s 80 percent spectator and 20 percent doer or artist, where we entertain the rest,” Bowers said.

“It’s okay, because my work has evolved. I started out making a wire blinking hat and now I’m building a piece of art that takes up the entire festival.”

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UTRECHT, The Netherlands (Reuters) – What started as a joke about creating an artificial mountain in the utterly flat Netherlands may actually be feasible.

This was not what semi-professional cyclist-cum-journalist Thijs Zonneveld had expected when he posted a column on a popular Dutch news website on August 5 in which he laughingly urged his countrymen to create their own mountain with alpine slopes, meadows and villages.

“It was not serious but the next day there was such a serious response from people who had actually been thinking about it and calculating stuff that it made me realize I was not the only one who’d had that idea,” Zonneveld said.

The highest natural ground in the Netherlands is at Vaalserberg, in the southern province of Limburg, with an altitude of just 323 meters, making it little more than a hill in the low-lying country in the eyes of most people.

But Zonneveld, 30, dreams of an artificial mountain 5 km (3.107 miles) wide and between 1 and 2 km in height, which would surpass the world’s tallest man-made building, the 828-meter (yard) high Burj Khalifa skyscraper in Dubai.

The idea of artificial mountains is not new.

In 2009, a German architect proposed erecting a 1,000 meter-high mountain at the site of the old Tempelhof Airport in Berlin, but had to settle for a 60-meter hill as the challenges set in.

Zonneveld has yet to figure out exactly how the Dutch mountain would be designed and built, what materials would be used, where it would be located, and, crucially, how much it would cost. He declined to put even a rough price tag on it.

Yet his call has resonated with the enterprising Dutch, whose engineering prowess has allowed them to defend land that lies below sea level from the raging waters and to engage in major engineering feats abroad, such as building artificial islands in Dubai.

On Tuesday, Dutch engineering groups such as Oranjewoud and Bartels, along with sport organizations, such as the Dutch skiing association and the Dutch climbing and mountaineering association, met to ponder the details.

“The project is feasible and we the Dutch have a lot of experience in moving soil and sand around for our land reclamation projects. It just needs to gather a snowball of support,” said Oranjewoud project manager Anthony van Dongen.

Estimates of the cost range from a few billion euros all the way up to 200 billion euros. If and when the project takes off, it would therefore provide a major boost to the Dutch construction sector, which has been hit by a property downturn.

“Technically this can be done and the space can also be found. The biggest hurdles will be financing and environmental problems. But these will be tackled in the coming months by these companies,” Zonneveld said.

Zonneveld said he had already spoken to several investors who saw commercial opportunities in offering sports, leisure resorts, developing real estate and even producing renewable energy by erecting wind mills on the mountain.

“People may think this is a publicity stunt but this is not true. Publicity is the means because if people don’t know about it, it cannot be done. The goal however is to build this mountain,” Zonneveld said.

Zonneveld said that even though his editorial kicked off the initiative and he was now devoting up to 16 hours a day working on the project, he does not care what the mountain is called, but suggested it could be named after the largest proprietor.

“The idea is now to use the name of a person or company that pays the most. I think it would be good to name the mountain after someone who can afford to contribute the most to make it happen,” Zonneveld said.

Supporters of the idea hope they can appeal to Dutch national pride but also tap into the frustration of many of the country’s holidaymakers who have to travel to neighboring northern European countries to enjoy holidays with a bit of altitude.

“I’m realistic enough to know it will take a long time and that there will be a lot of obstacles to overcome, it will have to be taken step by step. But this is the moment to do this, I’m 100 percent confident,” Zonneveld said.

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AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Five asylum-seekers who are due to be expelled from the Netherlands will compete in a Dutch television quiz show this week with the chance to win 4,000 euros ($5,773) for their knowledge of all things Dutch.

Their expertise on Dutch geography, history, politics, art, and language among other things is unlikely to be of much use once they have left the Netherlands, but the editor behind the show says he wants to make a serious point about immigration policy and give the winner money for his or her new life.

The Netherlands was long regarded as among the more generous countries in welcoming asylum-seekers and immigrants but that has changed over the past decade, reflecting voter concerns over the large number of Muslim immigrants.

Geert Wilders, who heads the anti-Islam, anti-immigration Freedom Party, is the ruling coalition’s key ally in parliament and has used that influence to push for tougher immigration policies.

“This program is about the children of asylum-seekers who have lost out in the asylum process. Children who have sometimes been in the Netherlands longer than eight years,” said Frank Wiering, editor-in-chief of Dutch broadcaster VPRO.

“It is harrowing that these people have to leave. We’ve made a quiz with these people and you can laugh about it but the subject is not funny,” Wiering told Reuters.

The one-off quiz show is called “Away from the Netherlands” — although the title also translates as “Crazy about the Netherlands” — and will feature five contestants between the ages of 15 and 22 who have spent much of their lives in the country and now face expulsion.

Public and political criticism has grown this year over the expulsion of young asylum seekers, many of whom have spent most of their lives in the Netherlands.

The outcry prompted Immigration Minister Gerd Leers to grant residence permits to a 14-year old Afghan girl and her family.

In several Dutch towns, residents and local politicians have asked the minister to grant permits to asylum-seekers with children, but without much success so far.

Wiering said there were about 15,000 children, often part of families, seeking asylum in the Netherlands: of those, 2,000 have been in the country for more than eight years.

And he said that rather than expel them, the Netherlands should take advantage of their appetite to learn, to integrate, and prosper.

“I think we should not be afraid of the new energy that is coming from abroad. We already have hundreds of years experience with this,” Wiering said.

He said the show, whose trailer showed a cheering audience, and a presenter with two female assistants dressed as police or immigration officers, was not a hoax and the candidates were not actors.

The Netherlands has earned a reputation as a breeding ground for new TV formats, bringing the reality show “Big Brother” to the world in 1999.

In 2007, Dutch broadcaster BNN aired a “donor show” where an allegedly terminally ill woman would donate her kidney to one of three candidates with a kidney problem.

At the end of the show, the presenter announced that the woman was an actress and that the show was a hoax, with the aim of shocking people into the realization that the country lacked enough donors.

Introduced by the show’s producers, Reuters spoke to 18-year old Mathu, who declined to give his surname for privacy reasons, and who said he was one of the show’s contestants.

Speaking in near-flawless Dutch, he said he had lived in the Netherlands since he was seven years old after his parents left Sri Lanka for their safety.

“After 11 years in a country you deserve a normal life. I want to get my driver’s license just like anyone else. I hope that every child that comes here after me and has to stay here this long and speaks Dutch well gets a chance. The procedures should be much quicker,” Mathu said.

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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Lucas Brody was just 10 years-old when he watched the Twin Towers fall to the ground one block from his New York home on September 11, 2001; Caitlin Langone was 12 when her police officer dad died that day trying to rescue people from the scene.

Millions of other children in the United States were not born in 2001, or were too young to remember — still less comprehend — the traumatic events of September11.

But as the United States prepares to mark the 10th anniversary of 9/11 with an onslaught of TV specials, children are finally being given a voice and a chance to ask pressing questions.

“It’s a story that is not often heard — 9/11 from a children’s perspective. It tends to have been overlooked,” said Janice Sutherland, producer of “Children of 9/11″, to be broadcast on NBC on September 5.

Dozens of other TV documentaries, interviews and looks back at the attacks deal with everything from the recollections of then-President George W. Bush to the ongoing health problems of Ground Zero rescue workers, the hunt for Islamic militants and even how dogs helped victims recover from the catastrophe.

“Children of 9/11″ follows a year in the lives of 11 kids who lost parents in the attacks on New York, Washington D.C, and in Flight 93 that was forced down in Pennsylvania.

In another program at youth-oriented channel Nickelodeon, award-winning journalist Linda Ellerbee lays out the facts for 6-14 year-olds who don’t have first-hand recollections in the Nick News special “What Happened?: The Story of September 11 2001″ airing on Thursday.

Many adults still find it too painful to relive that day and its graphic TV news footage. But Ellerbee, 66, said the “noise around the 9/11 anniversary is going to be too loud for kids to ignore — and they’ll get a lot of misinformation.”

“IGNORANCE IS NOT BLISS”

“I believe we needed to put together a show explaining in simple clear terms just what happened on that day, what happened next and how people felt about what happened,” Ellerbee said. “Ignorance is not bliss; ignorance is dangerous.”

In a third program, ABC News will report on the lives of the Florida children to whom Bush was speaking when he got news of the attacks.

According to a study carried out for Nickelodeon by the Harrison Group and Harvest Research, 92 percent of kids as young as 8-11 are aware of the importance of 9/11. But their information is sometimes wildly at odds with the facts.

“I heard that on 9/11, 500 planes disappeared into the air,” one young girl told Nick News. Others thought the Islamic militant hijackers were Hindus, or came from Japan.

The Nick News show, airing on September 1, does not show film of the hijacked planes smashing into the World Trade Center but it advises youngsters to watch with a parent. Educational and other materials are available online in partnership with the American Psychological Association.

“Children of 9/11″ producer Sutherland said she was used to hearing adults talking losing children, but not the reverse.

“Most of them felt an incredible sense of responsibility for the surviving parent, and a fear of what would happen if they lost that parent…It is something they have had to deal with on their own.” she said.

Caitlin Langone, now 22, was in school when a teacher told her class about the attacks. Like many of the children in the new shows, she had no idea that her father was involved.

Until taking part in “Children of 9/11″, Langone said she had never seen her experiences reflected in the public domain.

“I felt this documentary was my opportunity to tell my story in my own words. I hope it gives people a better understanding. I hope it makes 9/11 more personal and more real for them,” Langone said.

Both the NBC and Nick News programs have a hopeful message. Sutherland said “Children of 9/11″ is ultimately life-affirming because it shows children at their most resilient.

The Nick News special recalls the efforts of firefighters, and rescue workers, and reminds children of the unity that swept the United States in the weeks immediately after 9/11.

And it features the message “We will survive”.

(Editing by Bob Tourtellotte)

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NEW YORK (TheWrap.com) – We feel like we understand Charlie Sheen now.

For the promos for his new Comedy Central roast, Sheen appears on a metaphoric crazy train, surrounded by goddesses, spouting catch phrases. The decor is as unsubtle as a carousel’s, yet strangely lulling. Perhaps even beautiful. Everything is bathed in golden light. Ozzy Osbourne serenades us into whatever comes next.

Is this how Sheen sees the world? It all suddenly makes sense.

The roast airs September 19, but you can see the first promo here: here

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LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) – When Glen Campbell made a comeback bid in 2008, there was one aspect of his concert appearances that invited audiences’ ridicule or alarm — not his delivery, which was still pitch-perfect, but the fact that his eyes were glued to his Teleprompter for even his most familiar hits. Could he really be afraid he’d forget the words to the chorus of “Galveston”?

Yes, as we now know from his recently revealed Alzheimer’s diagnosis. Although he’s still good to go with the aid of those monitors, Campbell has announced his farewell tour, preceded by this week’s release of a goodbye album, “Ghost on the Canvas,” to usher in the exit strategy.

Pop music hasn’t produced a lot of deliberate farewell albums so far, besides Warren Zevon’s “The Wind.” But as self-expressive boomers continue to look at what ails them head-on, we’ll surely be seeing a lot more. And “Ghost on the Canvas” is a sweet, soaring template for how to musically go into that good night with gentleness on one’s mind.

“Ghost” is a clear companion piece to 2008′s excellent “Meet Glen Campbell,” with both trying slavishly — and successfully — to re-create the sound of his finest mid-’60s recordings. Both were produced by Julian Raymond, a careful student of that particular old school, who is very much the auteurist ghost in the machine in “Ghost on the Canvas.”

But whereas the previous album seemed designed to introduce Campbell to young indie-rockers with covers of familiar material by the Velvet Underground, Foo Fighters, and Green Day, this follow-up consists of all-new material, mostly co-written by Campbell, with a few fresh contributions from Paul Westerberg, Jakob Dylan, and Guided by Voices’ Robert Pollard.

The intent this time wasn’t to introduce the veteran pop-country star to a new generation but to make a final statement for the generation that came up with him. It couldn’t be any more valedictory if it came with a cap and gown.

Sometimes intent trumps execution on the album. If you’re going to go out of your way to specifically echo “Wichita Lineman” or “Windmills of My Mind” from a song’s opening instrumental moments, you’d do well to have a piece of material that’s nearly as good as those, and few of the songs here rival Jimmy Webb territory.

Even so, the album is not just noble but lovely — and irresistible, if you hold the slightest nostalgia for the dignified, lonesome Southwestern country Campbell recorded for Capitol 45 years ago. Nimble acoustic guitar picking inevitably leads to a sad swell of stings, and damn if you can’t imagine the Wichita lineman, still up there on the line, sending out musical Morse code.

Though it’s obvious that producer Raymond did the heavy lifting on the songs he co-wrote with the singer, the gospel undercurrents of the lyrics are all Campbell’s, from the opening assurance that he’ll sooner than later be in “A Better Place” to the spiritual abidance of “It’s Your Amazing Grace.”

Although it’s a bit lyrically clumsy, “Strong” is still a moving statement of determination to not play the victim in the inevitably imbalanced relationship between disease victim and caretaker.

No one would wish an extra memory loss on an Alzheimer’s patient. But if Campbell just happened not to recall that this was his “last” album — and between his good physical health and Raymond’s guidance, an additional album of cover songs hardly seems impossible — “Ghost” might have you hoping everyone else involved remembers to forget, too.

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Published August 30th, 2011 – 10:08 GMT

Lebanese singer Rami Ayash is scheduled to hold a special performance on the third day of Eid Al Fitr, Muslim holiday after the holy month of Ramadan, in Turkey. After his concert in Turkey, Rami will be heading to Cairo to hold a number of televised interviews.

On a different note, Rami is placing the final touches on two new songs he intends on releasing as singles by the end of the current year. Rami had refused to reveal details about the songs wanting to make them a big surprise for his fans.

Rami is also scheduled to film a music video for the song “Tal Al Sahar” (Up al night) based on the requests of his fans, who had requested he film a clip for the song on his official page on the internet social website Facebook. Until this moment, Rami has not yet decided on a theme for the clip.

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NEW YORK (Reuters) – Following other presidential candidates whose books have become a rite of passage to the White House, Minnesota congresswoman Michele Bachmann is writing a memoir to be published on November 21, her publisher said on Tuesday.

Bachmann, the Tea Party favorite and Republican White House hopeful, will address her personal background — including her roles as a tax attorney, wife, mother and foster mother — as well as her leap into politics and her “vision for America’s future,” said a statement from Sentinel, a Penguin imprint.

“This book will help to share my enthusiasm for an energized, pro-growth economy, and the life experiences that inform my optimism for the American people and for American greatness,” Bachmann said in the statement.

Bachmann is among the top three candidates seen to have a chance of winning the Republican nomination to take on President Obama next year.

Among other remarks to have come under scrutiny of late, she raised eyebrows this week by saying that Hurricane Irene and the U.S. east coast earthquake were God’s way of telling American politicians to cut spending and fix the budget deficit. She has responded by insisting she was joking.

The memoir follows other Republican candidates to have released books, including former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney and Texas governor Rick Perry.

Sentinel has acquired the worldwide rights to Bachmann’s book. The imprint said Bachmann will not receive an advance against royalties, in compliance with the rules of the House of Representatives.

(Reporting by Christine Kearney, editing by Jill Serjeant)

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