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...other finalists in the non-fiction category were journalists Jane Meyer and Jim Sheeler, and Cambridge resident Joan Wickersham...
...first printed. Notable past winners of the non-fiction title include Rachel Carson, George F. Kennan, Gore Vidal, and Thomas L. Friedman. The other finalists were Annette Gordon-Reed, a professor at Rutgers and New York Law School, journalists Jane Meyer and Jim Sheeler, and Cambridge resident Joan Wickersham. Faust has said in past interviews that “This Republic of Suffering” will likely be her last book for the foreseeable future, as she does not plan to write while serving as Harvard’s president...
...promised he would. "I meant what I said and I said what I meant: An elephant's faithful one hundred percent." This time, his mission is even more perilous. He must fend off the agnostic scorn of prime jungle bureaucrat Jane Kangaroo and her simian minions the Wickersham brothers. Kangaroo charges a "black-bottomed eagle" to fly the speck to a remote spot and dump it in a giant field of clover, where Horton would have to overcome tremendous odds just to locate it. Actually, the Who-ville speck would be quite safe in that field (which might be home...
...Burnett) seems strangely like Hillary Clinton. "That Horton's a menace," she says, adding, as if it were a crime against humanity. "He's got rabbits using their imaginations!" The lady does all in her nattering power to sabotage Horton's mission, and sends out her surrogates - the Wickersham monkeys acting like so many fractious Ferraros - on a whispering campaign against the idealistic elephant (who, in this case, should probably be a donkey). Yet the movie keeps the audience rooting for idealism, for the unlikely hero, for the audacity of Horton...
Legal experts agreed the week had not gone well for Stewart. Greg Markel, chair of the litigation department at the New York City--based law firm Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, says revealing the email backfired, and Apfel may have created a chasm between the two defense camps. "It seems to me it was never a particularly strong point for Bacanovic," says Markel. "And for Martha, it played completely differently. She just looks like an ogre...