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...professor at Rutgers and New York Law School, Gordon-Reid is the first black woman to win the award for non-fiction...
Aside from Gordon-Reid, the winners of the night were Judy Blundell, who claimed the prize for young people’s literature; Peter Matthieson, whose book “Shadow Country” won in the fiction category, and Mark Doty, who won the award for poetry...
...November 20 story Faust's Civil War Bok Falters in Quest for Non-Fiction National Book Award" misspelled the name of the winner of the National Book Award for non-fiction. Her name is Annette Gordon-Reed, not Gordon-Reid. Gordon-Reed is also a member of the Class...
...York Times, President-elect Obama, apparently interested in promoting party unity, has “signaled” his interest in retaining Lieberman’s vote, while Sen. Chris Dodd is reluctant to weaken Connecticut’s power in the Senate. So Sen. Harry Reid, the Senate majority leader, has decided to let Lieberman keep his chairmanship of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. As that title might indicate, this is an impossibly important committee, which, according to Senate Rule XXV, deals with everything from United States Archives to the compensation and benefits of all U.S. employees...
...limited, at least in the immediate future. In that chamber, she is just one of many presidential also-rans and a relatively junior member of an institution where power and advancement require seniority. Shortly after the election, she lobbied Health Committee chairman Edward Kennedy and majority leader Harry Reid to create a health-reform subcommittee for her to chair and was turned down. Her consolation prize - to head one of three ad hoc task forces that Kennedy has created - would not allow her to put much of a stamp of her own on any final legislation that emerges...