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...malaise, and that it grew so severe that at one point he considered offering up his own money in order to urge writers to break through their writer’s block. “I actually had an idea a couple of years ago—when six or seven people I knew were all in a similar place of frustration with the novel—of sponsoring a prize, of offering $10,000 of my own money who first delivered a novel,” Franzen said. Franzen also noted the potential obsolescence of serious fiction, saying that...
...view as the beginning of the modern presidency - to the end of Carter's term in January 1981, Presidents gave 229 major addresses. Nixon's use of "God bless America" was the only time the phrase passed a President's lips. In contrast, from Reagan's inauguration through the six-year mark of the current Bush Administration, Presidents gave 129 major speeches, yet they said "God bless America" (or the United States) 49 times. It's a pattern we unearthed in our book The God Strategy: How Religion Became a Political Weapon in America...
...time he saw Christians "who professed faith in Jesus Christ and who believed in segregation, and saw nothing wrong with lynching, saw nothing wrong with Negroes staying in their place," he told Bill Moyers in a PBS interview last week. That experience moved him to leave college for a six-year military tour - first with the Marines, then the Navy. Eventually, he arrived at the University of Chicago's Divinity School...
...conservative candidate's runaway victory Monday night comes two weeks after center-right leader Silvio Berlusconi swept back into the Prime Minister's office by roundly defeating Walter Veltroni, who had served the past six years as Rome mayor. When he took up his campaign for national office, Veltroni passed the capital's center-left baton back to Rutelli, who had been a popular mayor through the 1990s. Rutelli, a vice-premier and high-profile culture minister under the recently folded government of Romano Prodi, had been strongly favored to defeat the center-right upstart in the Rome race...
...anything, they'd abolish it," is trying to scare Londoners off voting for Johnson by suggesting that the Conservative is the funnier man, perhaps even the ultimate joke candidate. Billboard posters and 4.2 million postcards being distributed by Livingstone's campaign urge voters to imagine Johnson, despite more than six years as a member of parliament still best known for his many comically chaotic appearances on British TV game shows, in charge of London. "Suddenly he's not so funny," warns Livingstone's campaign literature...