Goldberg, Rube (1883-1970)
Rube Goldberg was a professional cartoonist for over 60 years, the creator of more than a dozen nationally syndicated comic strips, and the winner of a Pulitzer Prize for po...
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In a victory for
President Bush, Republican lawmakers forced Democrats
to put off legislation Wednesday intended to tighten rules
over government eavesdropping on suspected ...
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Selected editorial excerpts from the Japanese press:
NO. 1 - FROM VIOLIN TO HOT DOGS (The Japan Times, an
English-language daily)
Around the world, Japanese have been competing and winni...
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With No Country For Old Men's cinematic debut it was perhaps inevitable that bookstores would see a surge of popular interest in the already-popular work of Cormac McCarthy. And in the East Villag...
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The Presidency: Those who call George Bush a lame duck are wrong. He still has both the bully pulpit and his veto pen to help him push his agenda. He might be able to use both, and very soon.Congre...
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1. Television has greatly narrowed the freedom of the intellectual to do his job and "disturb the public peace." 100 years ago, the French intellectual Julien Benda could stand up against the estab...
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THE COUPBy Jamie MalanowskiDoubleday, 240 pages, $22.95
Jamie Malanowski’s debut novel about a palace coup in the White House has some sizable flaws, but for all the preposterousness of the p...
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Judge a Neighborhood By Its Bookstores! St. Mark's Bookshop Best-Seller List Heavy on Cormac, Comics
Goldberg, Rube (1883-1970)
