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starring Liesel Matthews, Eleanor Bron and Liam Cunningham...
...world like a junior executive, neatly attired in a crisp, dark suit and starched button-down shirt, dashing, luggage in hand, from taxicab to commercial aircraft. At times, he thumbed through his history book of the moment, Doris Kearns Goodwin's new biography of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt. But there was nothing mundane-or junior level-about his encounters. In addition to New Hampshire's Governor, he met with Senator Dan Coats to discuss the Foster nomination and a new bill on school prayer and choice. He then socialized with a collection of the Republican Party's movers and shakers...
...prestigious Pulitzer Prizes were handed out by Columbia University's journalism school in 21 categories. Among the winners: History-No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II, by Doris Kearns Goodwin; Fiction-The Stone Diaries, by Carol Shields; Poetry-Simple Truth, by Philip Levine; Biography-Harriet Beecher Stowe, by Joan D. Hedrick; Drama-The Young Man from Atlanta, by Horton Foote. The Virgin Islands Daily News (circ. 16,400) won in the Public Service category for a 10-part series on crime...
Really? No. Of course they're from Scandinavia. Designed in 1957 by a Copenhagen yoga instructor named Anne Kals¿, the shoes were first marketed in the U.S. under license by Raymond and Eleanor Jacobs in 1970. Impressed by Earth Day crowds gathering near their just opened store in New York City, the Jacobses made a snap decision to change the name of their product that very day from Anne Kals¿ Minus Heel Shoes to Earth Shoes. From a marketing standpoint, it was probably a wise move. Indeed, the couple soon found themselves presiding over a multimillion-dollar business...
Pedersen, a modern British historian, is on leave this year working on two projects--a study of British colonial policy between the two world wars and a biography of Eleanor Rathbone, and early 20th-century British social reformer...