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...anti-Semitism.” Daniel C. Kurtzer, the U.S. ambassador to Israel, told the audience that Summers “epitomizes and personifies all that is good about the United States,” and Menahem Yaari, president of the Academy, praised Summers as “outspoken...
...ways that I anticipated to some degree but frankly did not fully anticipate, these words did not go unnoticed,” Summers said last month in Jerusalem. “They probably did little to reject Mr. Yaari’s suggestion that I was outspoken...
...DIED. SUSAN SONTAG, 71, prominent critic, novelist and outspoken public intellectual; in New York City. Although she was best known for her works of nonfiction, including Against Interpretation and the critical study On Photography, Sontag wrote fiction (including The Way We Live Now and the best-selling The Volcano Lover), directed films, produced the movie Waiting for Godot in Sarajevo, and wrote numerous articles?proving, according to her own definition, that a writer should be "someone who is interested in everything...
DIED. SUSAN SONTAG, 71, writer, critic and outspoken public intellectual; of leukemia; in New York City (see page...
...week in the Siberian city of Barnaul, the capital of the Altai region some 3,500 km east of Moscow, more than 100 journalists published an open letter of protest against what they said was pressure from the Kremlin to smear Vladimir Ryzhkov, an M.P. from Altai and an outspoken opponent of President Vladimir Putin. According to Valery Savinkov, editor-in-chief of the Altai news agency Bankfax, "A gentlemen from Moscow came [in October] to offer us big rewards should we do their bidding. When I turned him down, he said: 'You either share the bulldozer's driver seat...