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Motoring News
Here are some notes from the past week in the automotive world, courtesy of auto expert Jim MacPherson: -Tesla, a maker of electrically powered cars, has vowed to start repaying federal loans by the end of the year. Regulatory filings at the end of March...Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Nissan, General Motors Corp., Palm Beach (Palm Beach, Florida), Companies and Corporations
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'Eight Girls Taking Pictures' explores the lives of eight radical women photographers
In her fifth novel, "Eight Girls Taking Pictures," Whitney Otto explores the 20th century lives of eight radical women photographers. In these fictionalized stories, the women battle sexism and throw off the yoke of domestic oppression to reinvent...Tags: Italy, World War I (1914-1918), Brooklyn (New York City), Arts and Culture, Photography
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And the Golden Hatchet goes to ...
There’s a certain joy that comes with reading a great literary takedown, the kind of mean but intelligent and precise review that eviscerates the pretensions and the sloppiness of a truly awful book. Over in Britain, they think of a good pan as...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Book, Authors
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Our town was Wilder's town too
Chicago makes a claim on many writers — Nelson Algren, David Mamet, Ernest Hemingway, Carl Sandburg — even if those scribes spent only a portion of their lives within its sweet confines. But Thornton Wilder, the author of such iconic plays...
Tags: Art Institute of Chicago, Arts and Culture, Ernest Hemingway, University of Chicago, David Mamet
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Why I'll never write a book
‘You should write a book.” Or, “Why don't you write a book?” Or, “Have you ever thought about writing a book?” Are you detecting a theme here? Anyone who writes for a living — anyone that is, with a mother...
Tags: Andersonville, Economy, Business and Finance, Finance, Harry Potter (fictional character), Book
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Holiday gift guide 2012: ‘Hobbit,’ ‘Star Wars,’ superheroes, more
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - latimes.comCall it Christmas, call it Hanukkah, call it Kwanzaa, Winter Solstice or Festivus. The truth is, we here at Hero ...... -
Richard Ben Cramer, Pulitzer Prize winner, dies at 62
Richard Ben Cramer, a former Baltimore Sun reporter who later became a Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign correspondent for The Philadelphia Inquirer and an acclaimed author chronicling the lives of politicians and legendary sports figures, died Monday of...
Tags: The New York Times, Johns Hopkins University, Periodicals, White House, Sports Illustrated
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The Victims And Their Stories
Killed in Friday's horrific shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School were 20 children, ages 6 and 7, and six adults. In the day since the worst massacre at a primary school in the country's history, stories of heroism in the face of death and of young...
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Students, Heroism, Sandy Hook Elementary School, University of Connecticut
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Legislator biographies presented
This is the first in a series of short biographies of South Dakota legislators, including the committees where they serve. District 1 — Day, Marshall, Roberts and parts of Brown counties Sen. Jason Frerichs, Democrat — Wilmot. Third term....Tags: Brock Greenfield, Environmental Issues, Labor Legislation, Small Businesses, Career and Workplace
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Golden Globes nominations 2013: 'Lincoln' leads the pack
Spreading its praise between accessible, star-driven movies and a handful of challenging films, the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. bestowed a leading seven Golden Globe nominations on Steven Spielberg's biography "Lincoln" while handing five nods apiece to...Tags: Central Intelligence Agency, Ben Affleck, Golden Globe Awards, Argo (movie), Anne Hathaway
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Dr. Joseph Murray dies at 93; Nobel winner performed first kidney transplant
Since ancient times, surgeons have dreamed of transplanting healthy organs into patients disabled by disease and injury, but the human body's powerful immune system stymied all such attempts, leading many observers to conclude that the procedure was...Tags: Stroke, Harvard Medical School, Injuries and Wounds, Physiology, World War II (1939-1945)
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Who Are They? Stories About The Victims Of Friday's Shootings
Killed in Friday's horrific shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School were 20 children, ages 6 and 7, and six adults. The shooter's mother was also killed Friday. Stories of the adult heroes of this tragedy and tributes to the children who lost their...
Tags: News Media, Music Theater, Anglicanism, Sandy Hook Elementary School, Learning Disability
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