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BWI airport becomes art gallery to celebrate human rights
Some of the bravest people in the world can be found at BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport.
Vaclav Havel of the Czech Republic. Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa. The Dalai Lama.
These and many other figures are featured in a photo exhibit organized to...Tags: Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, PBS (tv network), Human Rights, Desmond Tutu, Robert F. Kennedy
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On Sunday: Bechdel's mom, Theroux's Africa and Mantel's Cromwell
Jacket CopyOn Sunday: Alison Bechdel's mom, Paul Theroux's Africa and Hilary Mantel's Cromwell.... -
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: New Products, Tesla, Companies and Corporations, Manufacturing and Engineering, Ford
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Aaron Sorkin set to adapt 'Steve Jobs' for Sony
24 FramesAaron Sorkin, the Oscar-winning screenwriter of "The Social Network" will aim to help bring the life of the legendary tech icon Steve Jobs to the screen in a film for Sony Pictures that will reunite him with his "Social Network" producer Scott Rudin.... -
Aaron Sorkin to Adapt 'Steve Jobs' for Sony
ReutersAaron May 16 (TheWrap.com) - Sorkin will adapt Walter Isaacson’s biography of Steve Jobs for Sony, the studio announced on Tuesday. Mark Gordon, Scott Rudin and Guymon Casady are producing the biopic, which is based on Isaacson's widely hailed book....Tags: Moneyball (movie), Emily Mortimer, Television, HBO (tv network), The Social Network (movie)
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Craig Claiborne cooked up a new recipe
The late Craig Claiborne introduced many things to North Americans as food editor of The New York Times. The list, according to the jacket flap of a just-published biography, includes: "creme fraiche, arugula, balsamic vinegar, the Cuisinart, chef's...Tags: Newspapers, The New York Times, Freedom of the Press, Recipes, Egg Yolks
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C. David Heymann dies at 67; controversial bestselling biographer
C. David Heymann, a bestselling biographer whose titillating accounts of famous lives often were criticized as inaccurate or dishonest, including a book on heiress Barbara Hutton that was recalled because of factual disputes, has died. He was 67.
Heymann...Tags: Cornell University, Robert F. Kennedy, Robert Lowell, Farrah Fawcett, Literature
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How Mitt Romney should have answered the bullying story
The Washington Post's piece Thursday about the rough pranks former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney allegedly pulled in prep school added little, if anything, of substance to the presidential race. It was cast as a sort of reality check on the Romney...
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Allan Powell: Kings of the mountain exposed, Part 1
When we were kids, we earned some small change by selling burlap bags of corn cobs that we got free from a huge pile of cobs at Stickles' Mill on Baltimore Street. In those days (circa 1935), many homes cooked on coal stoves using corn cobs as kindling...Tags: Thomas Carlyle, Karl Marx, Science and Technology
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News briefs for Monday, May 14
New 'super' PAC hopes to woo younger voters, tapping into unease about jobs, student loan debt WASHINGTON (AP)— President Barack Obama counted on the support of younger voters four years ago. Now, a new Republican-leaning "super" political...
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American Masters does Carson to biographical perfection - except for that masculinity thing
The Baltimore SunFrom Norman Rockwell and Leonard Bernstein to Baltimore's Cab Calloway, no one does biography like "American Masters" on PBS. I've been reviewing these superb productions for all of the 26 seasons that "American Masters" has been on the air, and have...Tags: Dick Cavett, NBC (tv network), PBS (tv network), Ed McMahon, Concerts
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Book review: 'The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson' by Robert Caro
Special to the Los Angeles TimesThe Passage of Power The Years of Lyndon Johnson Robert Caro Alfred A. Knopf: 736 pp., $35 "The Passage of Power," the fourth volume in Robert Caro's epic biography of Lyndon Baines Johnson, encompasses the period of LBJ's deepest humiliation and...Tags: Democratic Party, Southeast Asia, Political Corruption, Politics, Book
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