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...Before becoming an author, Johnston was a professional skateboarder...
...Bret A. Johnston, Briggs Copeland lecturer on English and American literature and language and the director of the creative writing program, says he was not too concerned when he won a 2006 National Book Foundation award for writers under 35. Johnston says that he was only worried that the committee would realize they made a mistake and retract the award...
...Johnston is the author of the acclaimed short fiction collection “Corpus Christi.” He has another book to be published shortly by Random House that he says deals partly with a violin prodigy who has lost his gift and partly with a single mother who is helping to raise a stranded baby whale...
...Badgers win. Wisconsin went on to win a national championship.After the game, as the Crimson reflected on its season, tears of disappointment accompanied by an appreciation for the year that had been, especially on the parts of the seniors—Chu, co-captain Jennifer Sifers, Katie Johnston, Liza Solley, and Lindsay Weaver. “In our locker room, being a senior, there’s many tears,” Chu said in the post-game press conference. “Because I love Harvard hockey. That’s what it comes down...
...that goes beyond any possible Syrian connections-that Fatah al-Islam is one of a group of armed, extremist factions that have been spawned in the triangle of political instability from Baghdad to Gaza to Tripoli. Those groups include Iraqi insurgents, the mysterious Palestinian faction holding BBC journalist Alan Johnston hostage in Gaza, and the radical Salafist cells that have multiplied in Saudi Arabia and across North Africa all the way to Morocco. Taken together, these groups threaten the entire Middle East. Exploiting the Internet, using cell phones to communicate, stealing cash and smuggling drugs to finance operations, they constitute...