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  • Casey, meanwhile, will be heading off to Canada for a bicycling holiday, leaving behind an argument over his non-selection that is likely to endure until the Ryder Cup is decided.

    Ryder Cup reject Paul Casey makes point to Colin Montgomerie 2010

  • Further to my earlier post about the Booker shortlist's lack of readers (thanks to the non-selection of popular authors on the longlist such as Salman Rushdie) Amitav Ghosh's Sea of Poppies (John Murray) has had9,646 lifetime sales to date — 27.5% of the six shortlistees 'combined sales, according to the Bookseller blog.

    Reading the Booker Maxine 2008

  • Further to my earlier post about the Booker shortlist's lack of readers (thanks to the non-selection of popular authors on the longlist such as Salman Rushdie) Amitav Ghosh's Sea of Poppies (John Murray) has had9,646 lifetime sales to date — 27.5% of the six shortlistees 'combined sales, according to the Bookseller blog.

    Reading the Booker Maxine 2008

  • Amid all the chinwagging and finger-pointing this week about assorted inclusions and exclusions in England's pre-World Cup squad, one man whose non-selection has provoked no controversy whatsoever is the Bolton striker Kevin Davies.

    Foul play suspected as Kevin Davies is kept out of England picture 2010

  • POSTSCRIPT: Iain Dale had the non-selection story last night.

    Glasgow East: Scottish Labour Postpone Selection 2008

  • The highly subjective selection/non-selection of ‘news’ items is the center of that widespread bias.

    Behind the cameras « BuzzMachine 2006

  • Their finest hour perhaps was their repeated assertions, citing evidence including once having stood next to a reprographics expert at a public urinal*, that a local sub postmaster in Rochdale, protesting outside the MP's office on Drake Street at their shoddy non-selection treatment by the Paul Rowen/Dave Hennigan/Adam Power corruption trioka, presumably overseen by asbestos-pants Cyril and pants-on-fire Norman, have been up to no good with Photoshop.

    Photoshop 101: Farewell Then Everybody Hates Chris 2008

  • Referring to the "regularity or not" of the non-selection of

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2001

  • It allows me to give the player the consistent feedback the player is probably searching for and to let him know the reasons for his selection or non-selection.

    NEWS.com.au | Top Stories 2011

  • It allows me to give the player the consistent feedback the player is probably searching for and to let him know the reasons for his selection or non-selection.

    NEWS.com.au | Top Stories 2011

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