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Another old-line conservative group endorses Webster
Central Florida Political Pulse - Orlando SentinelFormer state Sen. Dan Webster has collected a host of endorsements from former- and used-to-be and blast-from-the-past Republicans and GOP-leaning groups in his campaign for the Republican nomination to face freshman Democratic U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson of... -
'Far Bright Star: A Novel' by Robert Olmstead, 'Inventing American History' by William Hogeland, 'Summer Will Show' by Sylvia Townsend Warner, 'Plants Don't Drink Coffee' by Unai Elorriaga, 'A Final Arc of Sky' by Jennifer Culkin
Far Bright Star A Novel Robert Olmstead Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill: 208 pp., $23.95 "Thus far the summer of 1916 had been a siege of wrathy wind and heated air. Dust and light. Sand and light. Wind and light." So begins the story of Napoleon...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Pete Seeger, Communist Party of China, French Literature, Madagascar
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Conservative Columnist William Safire Dies
Associated PressNEW YORK -- William Safire, the conservative columnist and word warrior who feared no politician or corner of the English language, died Sunday at age 79. The Pulitzer Prize winner died in Maryland, his assistant Rosemary Shields said. He had been...Tags: The Associated Press, Bert Lance, White House, Finance, New York City
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James J. Kilpatrick dies at 89; newspaper columnist and arbiter of language
James J. Kilpatrick, a nationally syndicated columnist whose strongly conservative viewpoints on politics, law and language appeared in hundreds of newspapers over the last five decades and made him a popular, even parodied, television pundit, died Sunday...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, U.S. Supreme Court, Charles Dickens, Martin Luther King Jr., 60 Minutes (tv program)
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Helen Chaplin dies at 97; longtime senior executive at Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel
Helen Chaplin, a sprightly senior executive at the Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel for more than 40 years who won the hearts of European royalty, heads of state, political pundits and A-list celebrities by attending to their whims as guests, has died. She...Tags: Music, Warren Beatty, Celebrities, Norway, New York City
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NY Columnist; Speechwriter William Safire Dies at 79
Pulitzer Prize-winning conservative columnist, language expert and former White House speechwriter William Safire died Sunday, his assistant said.
Safire, who was 79, had been diagnosed with cancer and died at a hospice in Maryland, assistant Rosemary...Tags: Pulitzer Prize Awards, Bert Lance, Bill Clinton, White House, William Safire
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Extension 720 Audio Archives, March 2008
Staff reporterIs the power and influence of the United States declining as the global economy flourishes? Yes, says our guest on this show. And it's not necessarily for the reasons you might think, such as the rising power of China and the European Union, although...Tags: University of Chicago, Colleges and Universities, European Union, Columbia University, Saudi Arabia
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Extension 720 Program Guide July 2009
WEDNESDAY, JULY 1ST CAP AND TRADE The House of Representatives has just passed their cap and trade legislation, and it now moves on to the Senate. You've heard from the media and from public figures and politicians about how this bill will solve our...Tags: University of Chicago, Trips and Vacations, Taliban, Newspaper and Magazine, Screen Actors Guild
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Last week in GOP triage punditry
Opinion L.A.It's not clear what precipitated this convergence, but the opinion pages of the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times and the Washington Post all devoted space last weekend to op-eds ruminating on contemporary conservatism. For those who missed this odd... -
Take Proust's questionnaire, rub shoulders with literati
Jacket CopyIt is said that when Proust was 13, he answered an English-language questionnaire, and at age 20 another one in French. These were kind of a parlor game, which he eventually popularized, asking guests and acquaintances about heroes and fears...... -
Zorn & Byrne search for middle ground between left and right
Change of SubjectVeteran Chicago commentator Dennis Byrne is a weekly contributor to the Tribune's commentary pages and the proprietor of The Barbershop, a ChicagoNow blog. In Tuesday's Tribune he joins me in The Rhubarb Patch to discuss liberalism vs. conservatism and... -
In his own right
William F. Buckley Jr., as anybody who has seen the great Buckley impressions by Joe Flaherty or Robin Williams can attest, was hardly inimitable. But the contributions of the National Review founder and long-serving icon of conservatism extended far...Tags: Richard Hofstadter, George W. Bush, Death, Robin Williams, Richard Nixon
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