Today’s News

(AP) Italian writer Roberto Saviano and Mexican journalist Lydia Cacho have been named co-winners of the $75,000 Olof Palme Prize for their efforts to expose criminal networks despite great personal risk. Cacho was charged with libel and received death threats after publishing a book about a child sex abuse ring involving business figures in...
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By Karen E. Klein (Bloomberg) From selling typewriters in his native Ontario, Canada, in the 1970s to wrestling with Microsoft (MSFT) in the 1990s as the co-founder and chief executive of open-source software company Red Hat (RHT), Bob Young has been a fiercely competitive serial entrepreneur. His latest venture is 9-year-old Lulu.com, a website...
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In this excerpt from a 1967 story in ‘Cheetah’ magazine, Wilson tries to show the Beach Boys are just as hip as the Beatles Comment4 By JULES SIEGEL November 3, 2011 1:40 PM ET Band leader Brian Wilson of the rock and roll band “The Beach Boys” poses for a portrait in Los Angeles, CA...
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His obituary has been placed in the public domain on the Gutenberg site (which is currently giving an access forbidden error message) . I corresponded with him occasionally and I feel a great sense of loss. This was a man who loved books in their purest sense. By Dr. Gregory B. Newby Michael Stern...
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As it happens, this awesome controversy was discussed for about 30 seconds on newsroom-l (new window) when one of the list’s few conservatives (not a journalist, but some guy from Arizona) posted an item about it, to which I replied as follows forthwith: On 7/23/2010 1:02 PM, to newsroom-l (new...
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