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...knowledge of blues and jazz is so authoritative that he once published his ranking of the 20 best recordings of Stormy Monday Blues. His remarkable combination of traits is why the people who judge magazine editing most critically, the American Society of Magazine Editors, gave Norm their lifetime achievement award...
...genesis to go to Selma comes from Diane Nash. In many respects, Diane was the most unsung heroine of the whole movement because in earlier times, she was right up there on the Freedom Ride. She's an innovator in nonviolence, and King gave her his highest award and I think he recognized her, but at the same time, she was kind of trampled and lost and neglected, and not appreciated. He knew that she was doing pioneer things, and that the women did, but the tradition of pulpit leadership was so male and that standard, he was just comfortable...
...Albee's Lifetime Achievement award at this year's Tonys certified the restoration of his career. The international success of his 2001 play The Goat, or: Who Is Sylvia, and strong Broadway revivals of his Pulitzer Prize-winners A Delicate Balance and Seascape (which both have run longer than the original productions), assure that the playwright, now 76, will not be remembered exclusively as the kid who wrote Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (also smartly revived this year). In Seascape, the beach banter of an aging couple is interrupted by the appearance of two visitors from the sea: reptiles...
DIED. JOHN SPENCER, 58, Emmy Award--winning actor best known as the savvy, tough White House chief of staff turned vice-presidential candidate Leo McGarry on TV's The West Wing; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles. The son of blue-collar parents, he got his break as Harrison Ford's cop sidekick in the 1990 film Presumed Innocent. That led to his big TV roles as L.A. Law's streetwise lawyer Tommy Mullaney and West Wing's top aide, who last season left his post after suffering a heart attack...
...property, but Harvard asserts that none of its collection is owned by Iran.Both sides have issued a flurry of court filings since the suit was filed in U.S. District Court for Massachusetts on March 28, and now await a judge’s ruling. Though courts have awarded plaintiffs billions of dollars in judgments under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA), a 1976 law that allows citizens to sue foreign nations in U.S. courts for acts of terror, few nations actually pay the damages. The plaintiffs’ legal maneuver—focusing on a university?...