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USAGE: "The Pirate Czar will protect giant media companies from, well, from you." --NPR...
...morph into disyllabic sounds—that draws nebulous, martyrizing declarations out of those who knew her well and those who didn’t. “There was no fire behind her,” bass player and producer Harvey Brooks told NPR in reference to her attempts at studio recording. “By the time the fire came, her personal fire...
Humorist Roy Blount Jr. is one of America's most prolific authors and a regular panelist on NPR's Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me. His latest book, Alphabet Juice is quasi dictionary/glossary of the English language, peppered with literary references, cultural oddities and hilarious musings on why we choose the words we do. TIME talked to Blount about the most literary band in America, why he advises investing $20,000 in mass transit and what Sarah Palin might mean for the future of politics...
...It’s basically a left-wing prize being given to a left-wing program,” former managing news editor of NPR, John Dinges said of the Right Livelihood Award...
...impression I've gotten at times even from business journalists I normally admire. Last night on PBS's NewsHour, for instance, an anchor put the question to the New York Times' Joe Nocera. I've heard him discuss business news in layman's terms masterfully on NPR for years; if anyone could put this in perspective succinctly, I thought, it would be him. But his answer was yet another of those general explanations - businesses lose access to money, people lose jobs - that avoided that essential question of degree...