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From the release:

Olsson Enterprises, Inc., trading as Olsson's Books & Records, Record & Tape Ltd., and Olsson's Books announced today that it has closed all of its locations and petitioned the U.S. Bankruptcy Court District of Maryland for conversion of its current Chapter 11 protection to Chapter 7.

The reasons given for the petitioning were stagnant sales, low cash reserves, and an inability to renegotiate current leases, along with a continuing weak retail economy and plummeting music sales.

Olsson's was granted Chapter 11 protection on July 11 this year in order to work on an aggressive reorganization plan involving selected store closings and large cuts in overhead costs. At the same time the Lansburgh/ Penn Quarter location on 7th Street, N.W. was shuttered to make way for a new London-based restaurant.

Olsson's was established in 1972 and grew to as many as nine retail stores in the Washington, D.C. metro area with sales over $16 million a year and as many as 200 employees. Currently there are five retail stores: Reagan National Airport, Old Town Alexandria, Arlington Courthouse, Crystal City, and one in Northwest Washington at Dupont Circle. Olsson's earned its reputation as a locally-owned community-oriented retailer with a knowledgeable staff selling a wide selection of books, music, video and gifts.

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In the battle between two of Washington's most prominent authors, here's how it played out in yesterday's New York Times Best Seller List:

From Mike Allen's Playbook:

POOL REPORT: Susan Glasser, Peter Baker and Nurith Aizenman celebrated the publication of "Freedom's Battle: The Origin of Humanitarian Interventions," by their friend Gary J. Bass, a former reporter for The Economist who is now an associate professor of politics and international affairs at Princeton University.

HOW TO SELL BOOKS (FOR ACTUAL CASH MONEY) TO THE LIKES OF JANE MAYER, JULIET EILPERIN, ALAN COOPERMAN AND PETER CANELLOS: Susan and Peter's adorable 3 1/2 year-old, Theo, complete with blinking kicks, greeted each arrivee and demanded $25. He got it. He was very task-oriented, and we had trouble explaining to him that it was OK for folks to buy more than one. He was worried he would run out – a Washington book-party eventuality that only Theo could pull off.
Knopf's sneak: "Why do we sometimes let evil happen to others and sometimes rally to stop it? Whose lives matter to us? These are the key questions posed in this important and perceptive study of the largely forgotten nineteenth-century "atrocitarians"--some of the world's first human rights activists. Wildly romantic, eccentrically educated, and full of bizarre enthusiasms, they were also morally serious people on the vanguard of a new political consciousness. And their legacy has much to teach us about the human rights crises of today. Gary Bass shatters the myth that the history of humanitarian intervention began with Bill Clinton, or even Woodrow Wilson, and shows, instead, that there is a tangled international tradition, reaching back more than two hundred years, of confronting the suffering of innocent foreigners."

Say hello to veteran NPR correspondent Tom Gjelten, who will be discussing his new book, "Bacardi and the Long Fight for Cuba," at Politics & Prose on Sept. 21st at 5pm.

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What's the name of your cell phone ring? Ding-a-ling

What time did you get up this morning? 0630

When did you last cry and why? When my dad died last March

How many emails do you receive a day, roughly? 25 worth reading, 100 not

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So the Washington Post is running its "Angler" series about Dick Cheney and which was penned by Post reporter Barton Gellman. The book doesn't come out until tomorrow, but Murray Waas has been publishing excerpts at the Huffington Post and on his own personal blog.

(You'll recall that the Washington Post has been unable to maintain its exclusive on Bob Woodward's book excerpts...)

In Bob Woodward's latest book, "The War Within," he alludes to -- but does not describe in great detail, citing national security restrictions -- a highly classified program that is helping to kill insurgents in Iraq and that is the real reason behind any recent success in Iraq (not the surge). During his "60 Minutes" interview, Woodward said that the program's historical significance is akin to the invention of the tank. During that interview, Woodward wouldn't cough up further details on the program, prompting "60 Minutes"' Scott Paley to say, "For a reporter, you don't allow much."

But the lead story in today's Los Angeles Times says:

As part of an escalating offensive against extremist targets in Pakistan, the United States is deploying Predator aircraft equipped with sophisticated new surveillance systems that were instrumental in crippling the insurgency in Iraq, according to U.S. military and intelligence officials.

Sound similar? Things that make you go hmmm...

From today's White House Press Briefing:

Q In the Woodward book the President is quoted as saying that a surge would also help here at home, since for many a measure of success is a reduction in violence. What role, if any, did domestic politics play in the formulation of the surge?

MS. PERINO: Well, I think -- you know, I haven't read the book. I think what that would refer to would be that the President has said multiple times that it's very important that your country understand what the Commander-in-Chief is asking its military to do. And clearly Americans want to win wherever we send our troops, and we don't want our troops to be put in harm's way, where they don't have a clear strategy to win. I think that's probably what it's referring to.

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