Word: minnesota
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Along with Stephen Gudeman, a professor ofanthropology at the University of Minnesota,Herzfeld also wrote the "Internet Manifesto,"which called for "a moratorium on the reviewing ofbooks for Cambridge University Press...
...that horrific Gulf War II town hall that CNN hosted for the Cohen-Albright-Berger triumvirate this winter. In any case, the Prez himself will do the honors this time, with ESPN's Bob Ley moderating a panel that includes Jim Brown, University of Georgia AD Vince Dooley; Minnesota Vikings coach Dennis Green, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, ESPN analyst Joe Morgan, San Diego Padres chairman John Moores, San Francisco 49ers president Carmen Policy and Georgetown University men's basketball coach John Thompson. St. John's basketball standout Felipe Lopez is the only Hispanic, a fact that had some groups already screaming...
...That's what happened to the Grand Forks Herald in North Dakota last year, a one-two punch from nature that editor Mike Jacobs calls "Hell and High Water." But the 52-strong staff stuck together, wrote the paper in an elementary school, printed it out of Minnesota and handed it out for free. This Tuesday, they got their payback: A Pulitzer for Public Service journalism, one of the highest awards a newspaper can receive. News editor Jeff Beach took it in stride, remembering "that special time during the flood when [the paper] was being snapped...
...mother, even the dilapidated domesticity of Arkansas was an improvement over Minnesota. By the early 1990s, her marriage to Scott Johnson was failing, and home life had become something of a health hazard. "There was dog crap on the kitchen floor," recalls an occasional visitor to their farmhouse in Grand Meadow. "Rotting food was lying on the counter for weeks. The yard was not cleaned or mowed." As for Mitch, the visitor recalls once finding him asleep behind some paneling in the house. He says, "He didn't look like someone I wanted my kid to play with. His clothes...
...Table (Knopf; 273 pages; $23), an expertly written novel by Scott Spencer, author of Endless Love, that rips off the life of Bob Dylan. Most readers will recall that Dylan was a scraggly haired harmonica player with an edgy voice and an edgy mind, a Jewish kid from Minnesota who changed his name from, let's see, Zimmerman? And later converted to Christianity for a few years. The character who dominates Spencer's novel was born Stuart Kramer, transformed himself as "Luke Fairchild," and came from "the Midwest," not specifically from Minnesota. Otherwise, the fit is exact...