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The newly tapped host has been criticised for controversial tweets from past that some feel are out of step with the tone of the satirical news program Trevor Noah the surprise choice to succeed Jon Stewart as high-profile host of satirical news program The Daily Show has come under fire for a series

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Vargas Llosa's first novel, published in Spanish as La Ciudad y Los Perros (The City and the Dogs), is set in a military academy in Peru, the Leoncio Prado Academy, which the author himself attended. When published, it caused such a stir that the academy's authorities burned 1,000 copies of the book in protest. The

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