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Corsi claims that Obama has strong ties to Odinga, whom the author says fomented Kenya's postelection violence last January in a bid to secure the presidency after the results declared incumbent President Mwai Kibaki the winner. In fact, independent observers disputed Kibaki's victory, and a commission looking into the vote recently determined that Kenya would never know if Odinga or Kibaki truly won. In his writings, Corsi has sought to link the Luos - the tribe of Odinga, as well as Obama's ancestors - with Muslims and to pit both of them against Kikuyus, the tribe of Kibaki...
...Goodman ’84, a rabble rouser since her days living the Dudley Co-op, was named a winner of the Right Livelihood Award last week, an honor known as the “Alternative Nobel Prize...
...Steven Millhauser? He is an American writer. He is a Pulitzer Prize winner. He is the author of a recent paean to the short story. Drawing an analogy to William Blake’s “world in a grain of sand,” he writes in a New York Times essay that “the short story concentrates on its grain of sand, in the fierce belief that there—right there, in the palm of its hand—lies the universe…In that single grain of sand lies the beach that...
...McCain has led most of the summer in this bellwether state - Missouri has gone with the winner in every presidential election but one since 1904 - with just a skeleton crew in place. In fact, paid McCain staffers are so scarce in these parts that reporters have to call Iowa if they want a comment. Tina Hervey, the state GOP spokeswoman, says the McCain camp is simply doing a better job of marshaling resources - and they are confident that the "72-hour strategy" of flooding likely Republican voters with phone calls, direct mail and even personal visits in the last...
...short films—which experiment with contrast and light, creating a unique visual rhythm by alternating slow-motion images of Warhol and crew with speedy second-long splashes of faces, lights, and darkness—compliment Robinson’s caring investigation of her family history. A 2007 winner of Best Documentary Film at the Berlin Film Festival and the New York Loves Film Award at the Tribeca Film Festival, “A Walk into the Sea: Danny Williams and the Warhol Factory” brings light to an artist whose history was until recently engulfed...