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U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris is determined not to let fellow Democratic presidential contender Sen. Elizabeth Warren have the limelight all to herself this week. Warren may have been stumping in Iowa. But Harris is putting out a book. And it’s already got people including CNN’s Maeve Reston, formerly of the LA Times, talking about it. U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris: Ready and willing to beat the shit out of bank executives and anyone else who wants a piece of her. A major focus of the book, apparently, is making sure everyone knows exactly how “Oakland tough” Harris is on a scale of one to ten. A scale on which she wants you to know, she comes in at about a fifteen. “I took off my earrings (the Oakland in me) and picked up the receiver…He yelled… I gave it right back…We were like dogs in a fight.” — Kamala Harris, in…