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No one cares more
The Baltimore SunWhen I got my reviewer's copy of Bill Walsh's new book, Yes I Could Care Less: How to Be a Language Snob Without Being a Jerk (St. Martin's Griffin, 256 pages, $14.99), the book fell open to this passage: "You're free to talk back to your usage guides....Tags: Language, Pump Room
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Defending Bryan Garner
The Baltimore SunWeary as you must be by now of the hopefully hullabaloo, a post at Language Log by Mark Liberman, "The H-word," gives rise to some further observations. Professor Liberman demonstrates a salient fact about the disparagement of hopefully as a sentence... -
Pulitzer Prizes : No fiction winner
The 2012 Pulitzer Prizes award today had a big gap -- there was no winner in the fiction category, which must have ticked off a whole lot of marketing execs. What will they do with all the "Winner of the Pulitzer Prize" stickers they had printed up for...Tags: Justice System, Malcolm X, Awards and Prizes, Toni Morrison, Pulitzer Prize Awards
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No fiction Pulitzer: The problem wasn't the books
For the first time since 1977, the Pulitzer Prize Board has not chosen a winner in the fiction category. Susan Larson, one of three fiction jurors who each read 300 submissions prior to forwarding three finalists, announced that the jurors were "shocked,"...Tags: University of Maryland, College Park, Cycling, Elections, Justice System, Voting
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Baltimore actress Julia Pickens reveals the woman behind the roles in 'Like/Dislike'
She’s played in indie horror films, in plenty of tough girl roles, and with multiple theater groups, and she recently “signed a contract in blood” (her words!) with the Baltimore Rock Opera Society. Julia Pickens, 27, has been acting...Tags: Christianity, Mount Vernon, French Fries, Fells Point, Music Theater
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Man charged with killing cat, abusing another
Ethan Phillip Weibman went to the Maryland SPCA, and from the dozens of cats, police say, he chose a short-haired one named Lucy to adopt.
He returned to the shelter two days later with the cat — dead, according to authorities. And, they said, he...Tags: Golf, Murder, Trials, Mass Media, Hemorrhaging
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