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From: Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA)
Date: 20070710
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It's amazing how rehab can change you. Take Lindsay Lohan: She now carries around one of most influential, potentially dangerous and controversial books in history, Italian thinker Niccolo Machiavelli's famous 16th-century tract about statesmanship, "The Prince." ("It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved," Machiavelli writes.)

Lindsay, who underwent a rigorous training course in pole dancing and stripping for her next film, says, "I was going out with someone, and they said I should read Machiavelli and I was like, `Nah,' and then I was, `OK, I'll read it,' and ...

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