Anzia Yezierska, novelist and short-story writer, belonged to that generation of Jewish immigrant authors who wrote about the Jewish migration from the pogrom-ridden Eastern European shtetl to the cit...
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Over a career of more than fifty years Anzia Yezierska was a prominent part of the vanguard in the literary treatment of the immigrant experience. As she stated in stories, essays, and interviews, Yez...
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Given the rarity of Hillary Clinton giving a formal press conference, it seems worth posting a full transcript of her comments from earlier today at the Gala café in Manchester. Highlights inc...
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Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich says the 2008 White House candidates are "demeaning the presidency" by focusing on the race rather than ideas."We have shrunk our political process to this pathet...
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Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Rodham Clinton on Saturday accepted the endorsement from a 230,000-member union and appeared at a rally with a young Hispanic lawmaker who promised her groun...
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The Chevrolet Malibu and the Mazda CX-9 were chosen as the car and truck of the year at the North American International Auto Show.The awards were presented Sunday, the first day of media previews ...
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It was after midnight last Saturday, and Bungalow 8 was filling up. I wanted to ask the famously exclusive nightclub’s regular patrons their thoughts about Iraq.
John Flanagan, a 40-year-old...
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One person suggested that City Councilman Tom Rawles be taken out back and beaten. Another said someone should put a bullet in his head, and a third that he should be buried in the cement his const...
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Failure to pass free trade
agreements with Colombia and Panama would damage U.S. standing
in Latin America, President Bush said Tuesday as
he urged Congress to approve both ...
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"Sit down and have a ball," instructs the first number in the revue "Make Me a Song: The Music of William Finn"_ easy advice to follow in this sweet, funny and moving show.Finn, the lyricist and co...
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Veiled in burqas and armed with bamboo canes, scores of female seminary students have occupied a children's library to protest plans to demolish mosques and madrassas built without permission on go...
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Jason Ricks had attempted only 10 field goals this season for Oklahoma State, and had missed a couple of PATs that cost the Cowboys a victory. None of that matter at the Independence Bowl on Thursd...
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