Bess Hawes, musician-folklorist who performed with Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, dies at 88 more images Mexico’s Jose Emilio Pacheco wins Cervantes Prize, Spanish-speaking world’s top literary honor
Mexican Pacheco wins Cervantes literary award New biography offers fascinating picture of President Woodrow Wilson’s life and times
New Woodrow Wilson bio presents a complex figure WADA president urges ATP to ’shed light’ on Agassi’s revelations of positive drug test
WADA chief wants ATP to explain Agassi drug case AP Interview: Guenter Grass surprised by success of “Tin Drum” 50 years onGOETTINGEN, Germany — Fifty years after he rocketed to the international stage with “The Tin Drum,” Guenter Grass is still surprised at the overnight success of his tale of World War II as told through the eyes of a stunted boy and his toy instrument. Tycoon stories and Darwin books get National Book Award nominationsNEW YORK — The subjects of this year’s National Book Award nominees were better known than the authors. French culture minister denies paying boys for sex amid calls for his resignationPARIS — France’s culture minister denied Thursday paying boys for sex, in an impassioned response to critics on the right and left demanding that he resign over a candid book recounting encounters with male prostitutes in Thailand. Iowa author who hounded military for details of son’s Vietnam death, berated Schwarzkopf diesLA PORTE CITY, Iowa — Peg Mullen, an author and former Iowa farm wife who hounded the U.S. military to find the truth about her son’s death in Vietnam, has died. She was 92. Sarah Palin finishes 400-page memoir, ‘Going Rogue,’ to be released Nov. 17NEW YORK — That was fast. Jenny Sanford, wife of scandalous SC Gov. Mark Sanford, is writing a memoirNEW YORK — The wife of South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, who separated from her husband in the wake of his affair with an Argentine woman, is writing a memoir. Federal judge: Seinfeld book won’t cook up consumer confusionNEW YORK — A federal judge Thursday tossed out a cookbook author’s claim that comedian Jerry Seinfeld’s wife was a culinary copycat when she came out with her own book explaining how to entice children to eat vegetables. History and hype, fact and fairy tale defined family known as ‘American royalty’BOSTON — Hundreds of photographs line the walls of the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum. For the moment, one in particular has captivated a visitor from New Hampshire. Library of Congress cancels lecture with reservist in Abu Ghraib prison scandal after threatsWASHINGTON — A lecture by the woman who became the public face of the Abu Ghraib scandal was canceled Friday at the Library of Congress after threats led to concerns about staff safety. Obituaries in the news
Obituaries in the news Al Alberts PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Veteran TV talent-show host Al Alberts, one in a long line of South Philadelphia crooners, died Friday in Florida, a son said. He was 87. |
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