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...Agramonte Independent Library. He earned his law degree (remarkably) while completely blind, but has been prohibited from practicing ever since the regime learned of his oppositionist activities. On March 4, 2002, he organized a peaceful protest outside the Ciego de Avila city hospital to express solidarity with an independent journalist, Jesús Alvarez Castillo, who had been brutally beaten by Cuban State Security. Along with his fellow demonstrators, he too was soon attacked by State Security and clubbed in the head so violently that it took several stitches to close the wound. He was subsequently imprisoned in Pedernales, Holgu?...
...letters; in New York City. Although he wrote and edited more than 30 books, Plimpton also found time to lead one of the more interesting lives of the 20th century. As editor of The Paris Review, he championed the works of Philip Roth and Jack Kerouac. As a participatory journalist, he pitched to Willie Mays and tried out for the Detroit Lions, an experience he described in Paper Lion, among the finest sports books ever written. Plimpton also guest-starred on The Simpsons, danced at Truman Capote's Black and White Ball and witnessed the assassination of Robert Kennedy. Though...
...popularity, especially since the national team beat arch rivals Russia to qualify for the Rugby World Cup. But most local teams don't have stadiums to play in, the players pay their own way to matches, and "if they swap shirts at the end of a game," says sports journalist Paata Tortadze, "they may find themselves without kit the next week." In places like Georgia, rugby is still largely an amateur sport. But in its traditional bastions of England, France, New Zealand, Australia and South Africa it has, since turning professional in 1995, become a multi-billion-dollar industry...
...attack, his response was “I don’t know there’s enough exterior evidence to determine whether they are true or not.” (The New Republic Online 4/8/02). According to Franklin Foer, “Cockburn is the only prominent western journalist to give these slanderous stories any credence.” (Ibid). Columnist Jon Margolis, after exposing several false charges made by Cockburn, asserted that “Cockburn has been abusing reality for decades” and that “as an accuser, Joe McCarthy was more responsible?...
Anne L. Garrels ’72, a senior foreign correspondent for National Public Radio (NPR), discussed her experience as a journalist in Iraq during the war and the challenges of reconstructing the country...