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...murder of four people in 1979 became renowned for his antiviolence work, including a series of books he wrote urging children to stay away from gangs; by lethal injection; despite his claims of innocence and appeals for clemency, supported by such activists as Snoop Dogg and Joan Baez but denied by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and the U.S. Supreme Court; in San Quentin, Calif...
...selected John S. Carroll as the first Knight Visiting Lecturer, a position that will focus on journalism and public policy and will be based at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG). The Knight Foundation, which advocates journalism and community service, founded the lectureship in a joint project with the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy to attract nationally recognized, practicing journalists. Those selected as Knight lecturers receive a $200,000 grant, which they can use to research at the university of their choice. Carroll had already planned to do research at Harvard under a fellowship awarded...
...this were a grudge match at the U.S. Open, or in their disintegrating home, where each pursues self-destruction with an anchorite?s intensity. Bernard (Jeff Daniels) is a college professor and one-time promising novelist who is stewing in the rancor of midlife mediocrity. His wife Joan (Laura Linney) has emerged from his shadow to land a novel with a prestigious publisher, and is celebrating by having an affair with the family?s tennis pro. Elder son Walt (Jesse Eisenberg) is burrowing into his teenage misery like a creature out of Dostoyefsky - or, perhaps, one of his father...
...Year of Magical Thinking By Joan Didion 227 pages
...professor of the history of science and the Monrad professor in the social sciences. The wedding was the second for both Summers and New. The bridegroom is the son of Anita A. and Robert Summers, former economics professors at the University of Pennsylvania. The bride is the daughter of Joan New, a party planner, and Ronald New, a former physicist in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The wedding was featured yesterday in The New York Times’ vaunted “Weddings & Celebrations” column. —Staff writer Zachary M. Seward can be reached...