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Obama's biographer
David Maraniss, a longtime journalist with The Washington Post, wrote “First In His Class,” a seminal biography of former President Bill Clinton, after winning the 1993 Pulitzer Prize in national reporting for his newspaper stories on Clinton....
Tags: Entertainment Events, Islam, Barack Obama, Politics, Pulitzer Prize Awards
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Professor Accused of Plotting School Massacre Pleads Not Guilty to Arson
KTLA NewsSANTA ANA, Calif. (KTLA) - A UC Irvine professor pleaded not guilty Wednesday to eight counts of arson that prosecutors claim was part of an elaborate mass murder plot to kill students and administrators son's school after the boy's suicide. Rainer...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Justice System, University of California, Irvine, Prosecution, Punishment
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Franklin County Fair pageant is Monday, Aug. 20
A few young ladies will realize their dreams Monday, Aug. 20, when they're crowned Franklin County Fair Queen, Princess or Little Miss, during the annual contests. The Franklin County Fairgrounds, which is off Warm Springs Road, southwest of...
Tags: Schools, Waynesboro (Waynesboro, Virginia), Elementary Schools, James Buchanan, Middle Schools
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'All About Eve' Actress Celeste Holm Dies
CNNNEW YORK -- Oscar-winning actress Celeste Holm died at her home in New York on Sunday at the age of 95, her niece, Amy Phillips, confirmed. Holm, a star of the Broadway stage and movies, was admitted to New York's Roosevelt Hospital a week ago, but her...Tags: Broadway Theater, Entertainment Events, Movies, Entertainment, Family
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Review: 'Cronkite' by Douglas Brinkley is occasionally critical
-------------------- Cronkite Douglas Brinkley Harper: 820 pp., $34.99 -------------------- Walter Cronkite was not inclined to introspection, and historian Douglas Brinkley emulates his subject in this thorough biography of the news broadcaster who in...
Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Democratic Convention (1968), Bill Moyers, PBS (tv network), Vietnam War (1955-1975)
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'7 Habits' Author Stephen Covey Dead at 79
KTLA NewsAuthor Stephen Covey, whose "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People" sold more than 20 million copies, died Monday at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center, a hospital spokeswoman said. He was 79. Covey's family issued a statement, reported by CNN...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Brigham Young, Gary Herbert, University of Utah, Jon Huntsman, Jr.
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Book Review: Douglas Brinkley's Biography of Walter Cronkite
Cronkite By Douglas Brinkley (Harper, 2012) Judging from the reviews of this book, a lot of people have a fixed idea of Walter Cronkite, one that seems seriously at odds with what the famous newscaster actually represented to millions of people. You...
Tags: Tom Wolfe, Television, Book, Walter Cronkite, Entertainment
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New WCPS curriculum aims to better prepare students for college, careers
julieg@herald-mail.comWhen the new school year begins, one of the first assignments Luanne Murphy’s seventh-grade class at Smithsburg Middle School will be given is to read a biography of cyclist Lance Armstrong. Students will use the Internet to read more current...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Education, Cancer, Schools, Students
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Cynthia Earl Kerman, Villa Julie professor
Cynthia Earl Kerman, a retired Villa Julie College faculty member who wrote biographies of a Quaker economist and a Harlem Renaissance writer, died of pneumonia July 22 at the Glen Meadows retirement community. She was 89 and had lived in Lauraville....Tags: Pneumonia, India, Charles Street, Charlotte Bronte, Authors
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'Smell the food on every page'
Twenty years ago, Bob Spitz spent several weeks touring Sicily in the company of Julia Child. "We ate and drank and talked. We talked about her entire life," recalled the writer of "Dearie: The Remarkable Life of Julia Child." "I had her voice in my...
Tags: The Beatles (music group), John Lennon, Economy, Business and Finance, Hartland, Companies and Corporations
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Temple gunman played in supremacist rock band End Apathy
Los Angeles TimesWade Michael Page, the man accused of killing six people at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin, was a member of a white supremacist band called End Apathy, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, and in a 2010 interview about the band had expressed...Tags: MySpace, Apathy, Los Angeles Times, Entertainment, Popular Music (genre)
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