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"A rollicking ride of intellectual discovery and emotional growth... his comic timing never fails"

-- The Wall Street Journal

"Pulls you in like a good sports story"

-- The New York Times Book Review

"Endearingly frank... jubilant... lighthearted and fast-paced"

-- New York Newsday

"A surprisingly touching memoir"

-- Entertainment Weekly

"Snappy and informative"

-- Associated Press

"Effortlessly funny and informative... tender, human, and very wise... A must for anyone who loves Jeopardy!, or has ever seen it, or is breathing."

-- Joss Whedon, creator, Buffy the Vampire Slayer

"I haven't seen Jeopardy! since I was a kid, and yet I was charmed and amused by Bob Harris's fascinating and surprisingly suspenseful book. Through sheer force of personality, he takes this brainy TV show and makes it funny and easy to relate to."

-- Ira Glass, creator and host, This American Life

"A surprisingly intimate, entertaining book."

-- Orson Scott Card, 4-time Hugo Award winner, author of Ender's Game

"Funny, enlightening -- and just might help you win a million bucks on Jeopardy!"

-- A. J. Jacobs, author of The Know-It-All

"A masterful job of describing the feel of Jeopardy! in the heat of battle... I knew Bob was a great guy and a fantastic Jeopardy! player. Now I've found that he's also a wonderful writer. I think I'm starting to hate him."

-- Brad Rutter, top money-winner in Jeopardy! history

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Who Hates Whom:
Well-Armed Fanatics, Intractable Conflicts,
and Various Things Blowing Up —
A Woefully Incomplete Guide™

“Revelatory... Harris's sly wit and infectious curiosity make understanding world chaos fascinating... witty, horrific, and necessary.”

— Boston Globe

"Brave... irreverent... charges into the thick of the globe's myriad simmering wars... hilariously relaxed."

— New York Observer

"Only Bob could make a user’s guide to our increasingly hostile world this absorbing, this breezy, and—ultimately—this hopeful.”

— Ken Jennings, author of Brainiac: Adventures in the Curious, Competitive, Compulsive World of Trivia Buffs

“Fascinating, enlightening, and surprisingly: NOT TOTALLY DEPRESSING. A gimlet-eyed look at the world we endure that’s also suitable for enjoying with a gimlet.”

— John Hodgman, author of The Areas of My Expertise
and correspondent for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart

"All three [presidential] candidates should read all three of these [recommended] books, but McCain gets first crack at Bob Harris's "Who Hates Whom“... a lighthearted overview of the insurrections and civil wars in the world today."

— Steven Pinker, author of The Stuff of Thought, in the New York Times Book Review

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Monday, 12 December 2005

Holy crap, there were three that I missed:

This is like one of those Highlights For Children spot-the-baseball-bat-in-the-tree things. Frank, the original emailer, only saw 6. I thought I was hot stuff for finding seven. But reader Derek writes in to point out that there have actually been TEN uses of the word "Holiday" or "Holidays" on the page all along.

So, the score is now updated: Holidays 10, Christmas 0.

I wonder how many others are in there your eagle eyes might find. Maybe there are a skillion little subliminal message "Holidays" all over the thing, the way people used to claim that the word "sex" was written in teeny print all over Ritz crackers.

Paging Vance Packard. Paging Wilson Bryan Key. Mr Packard, Mr Key, are you in the building?

Sheeesh.

UPDATE: It's at least eleven.

There's another one in there. I wasn't even looking. It just kind of jumped out from the screen while I was doing other things. I'm not even marking it. I'll let you have fun looking.

So the score is now 11-0. This must be Canadian football. I used to root for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats when I was a kid, watching the Global Network broadcasts on fuzzy UHF TV from Ohio. And the Holiday team just kicked a ball through the end zone (but not through the goalposts) for a single. (We called this a "rouge" when I was a kid, although nobody does that anymore.)

Christmas ball on their own 35.

PS: Since several of you have asked, the eleventh "holiday" is in the phrase "Be A Holiday Beauty" in black boldface headlining the top entry in the second column.

There are also at least three animal names hidden in the page, while you're at it. (Seriously, as accidents in other words.) And probably at least one or two subliminal commands to vote Republican, send money to Pat Robertson, and give your children to Reverend Moon. But those I haven't actually found. Yet.