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Media Guru Tony Schwartz, 1923 - 2008 2008-06-17 00:00:00 The best thing about radio is that people were born without earlids. You can't close your ears to it.
Called the man "who moved sound recording into the realm of the arts," by photographer Edward Steichen, "the King of Sound" by... Read more:Schwartz
David Sirota on Lou Dobbs 2008-06-04 00:00:00 Called "a new-generation populist who instinctively understands that the only real questions are 'Who's getting screwed'" by Molly Ivins and a "populist rabble rouser" with a "take no-prisoners mind-set" by the ... Read more:David
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2008 Krasnza-Krausz Book Awards announced 2008-04-22 00:00:00 Foto: Modernity in Central Europe, 1918-1945, the catalog for the internationally acclaimed exhibition curated Matthew S. Witkovsky, has been awarde... Read more:Awards
Francis Parkman Prize to Jean Edward Smith for FDR 2008-04-12 00:00:00 "After seven years of incompetence in Washington, D.C., I think the country is ready to look back at the type of leadership we had in someone like Roosevelt," Jean EdwardSmith
said on learning tha... Read more:Francis
Wales Book of the Year to Dannie Abse for The Presence 2008-07-02 00:00:00 "The unease I felt about writing it was dissipated when I realised the response to the book but I wish the book had never had to be written", was poet Dannie Abse's response after winning the Read more:Presence
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Sharp Teeth author Toby Barlow, on LA 2008-08-04 00:00:00 Sharp Teeth, the free verse debut novel by Toby Barlow
, is a story of love and werewolves in modern Los Angeles. A "tightly written crime thriller" disguised a heroic epic poem, the book is a "howling, hole-digging, bone-snapping, blood-lapping, int...
Kay Ryan announced as new Poet Laureate 2008-07-30 00:00:00 The Library of Congress has announced announced that Kay Ryan is to be the sixteenth Poet Laureate of the United States. "Her poems", according to
Mahmoud Darwish, 1942 - 2008 2008-08-15 00:00:00 The Israelis do not want to teach students that there is a love story between an Arab poet and this land. I just wish they'd read me to enjoy my poetry, not as a representative of the enemy.
He was the "most brilliant" Arabic ... Read more:Mahmoud
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