I met Tim Russert only once, before a " Meet the Press " debate between two Senate candidates from my home state of Pennsylvania. Russert was engaging, impressively au courant with Keystone State politics and, well, a nice guy. I also admired...

In this article: Tim Russert, Newseum, Los Angeles Times, Buffalo Bills, Meet the Press, Los Angeles, California, and Pennsylvania

...Book Club's popular series Best in Children 's Books." On top of the Warhol (and Dr. Seuss and Beatrix Potter ) works, a very are edition of Maurice Sendak's first picture book will be on the block. It's titled Good Shabbos, Everybody and...

In this article: Andy Warhol, Maurice Sendak, New York, Child, Dr. Seuss, Beatrix Potter, and Doubleday Book Club

...over by one of our leading Shakespearean actors, 130 of us are spending a rather weird day deciding who other than Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare's plays and sonnets. Our presence here in a padded lecture theatre comes courtesy of a...

In this article: William Shakespeare, Robin Williams, Edward de Vere, Mark Rylance, Brunel University, and Mary Sidney

THIS STORY HAS BEEN FORMATTED FOR EASY PRINTING Newseum puts Tim Russert 's NBC office on display An exhibit of Tim Russert's desk is seen at the Newseum in Washington , Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin )

In this article: Tim Russert, Newseum, Washington, NBC, All rights reserved, Buffalo Bills, Edward R. Murrow, and Meet the Press

...County Boots rather than sneakers are the recommended footwear for a post-Thanksgiving hike that will trace part of George Washington 's journey through Butler County. The Nov. 27 walk in Connoquenessing Township will closely follow an...

In this article: George Washington, Butler County, Slippery Rock University, Old Stone House, Historic Harmony, and French and Indian War

...should be prevented from trying to do good just because there was a chance they might do bad. It was 1787. The writer was George Washington. The reform in question was the U.S. Constitution. And the powerful three-page letter he...

In this article: Bushrod Washington, Constitution, George Washington, Mount Vernon, Asking price, Revolutionary War, and University of Wisconsin

...the popular novel Thank You For Smoking. After warning the audience that the answer would not be a short one, Buckley began the story by saying he was watching a discussion about the health risks of smoking on the Lehrer news hour. Featured on...

In this article: Christopher Buckley, Republican Party, Sarah Palin, Tobacco Institute, Rockwall High School, Highland Park High School, Tobacco, Yale, Thank You for Smoking, and George H. W. Bush

MICHAEL JACKSON's mother KATHERINE is 'seriously considering' suing the late King of Pop's physician DR. CONRAD MURRAY for wrongful death. The matriarch's attorney Adam Streisand has revealed the doctor's lack of funds is the only thing...

In this article: Michael Jackson, Katherine Jackson, Propofol, Tmz.com, AEG Live, Paris, and Los Angeles

...for the body for $37 million from a Dallas resident, earning it a front-page story in The New York Times. Buckley's reaction was "cool." Buckley , in his book " Thank You for Smoking ," included in his autobiography on the back cover that he has...

In this article: Christopher Buckley, Thank You for Smoking, Vladimir Lenin, William Howard Taft, Dallas, IP Address, Minister of the Interior, Esquire magazine, Yale University, and Peter Jennings

By Chris Buckley and Alister Doyle U.S. President Barack Obama said on Tuesday next month's climate talks in Copenhagen should cut a deal with "immediate operational effect," even if its original aim of a legally binding pact is not...

In this article: Barack Obama, Copenhagen, Carbon, Washington, United States, Global warming, Hu Jintao, Climate change, and Lars Lokke Rasmussen

...football rivalry finds itself on life support. Yesterday, school officials canceled the game for the second straight year. Washington will play La Salle or St. Joseph's Prep , the Catholic AAAA champ (to be decided Friday), in the...

In this article: George Washington, Thanksgiving, St. Joseph's Prep, Central Bucks West, and Easton

Officials at George Washington and Archbishop Ryan yesterday agreed to cancel the schools' Thanksgiving Day football meeting for the second straight year. Washington , a 40-0 winner over Northeast in Saturday's Public League Class AAAA...

In this article: George Washington, Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving, St. Joseph's Prep, Catholic League, Red Raiders, and Easton

How do you make a bottle to store antimatter in? Don't ask Dan Brown ; ask Professor Mike Charlton of Swansea University , who is researching the complex world of particle theory, in Cern Tom Hanks in Dan Brown's thriller, on the way to...

In this article: CERN, Angels & Demons, Dan Brown, Robert Langdon, Physics, Swansea, Swansea University, Tom Hanks, and Big Bang

..." King Lear " and " Macbeth." But they're also called on to flesh out the court intrigues of James , who was Shakespeare 's artistic patron. "Shakespeare did very well, very, very well," Cain said. "He became a rich man writing for a corrupt...

In this article: William Shakespeare, James I, David Esbjornson, Macbeth, and King Lear

By Evans Donnell For The Tennessean November 14, 2009 Edgar Allan Poe was born 200 years ago and died 160 years ago, but he s still the master of horror. Want proof? Check out Nashville Opera s The Fall of the House of Usher. It s a...

In this article: Edgar Allan Poe, Philip Glass, and The Fall of the House of Usher

It is known that Anne heard on the radio requests for people to keep written records of what had transpired for after the war ( Anne herself writes about this in the diary), and Prose claims her attempt at revision was a conscious effort...

In this article: Anne Frank, Francine Prose, Otto Frank, Margot Frank, Daniel Finkelstein, Amsterdam, Nationalism, God, and The Times of London

Anne Frank mentioned the tree - seen outside her attic window in Amsterdam - several times in her diary. BOISE (AP) A human rights memorial in Idaho 's capital city will receive a sapling grafted from the chestnut tree that grew outside...

In this article: Anne Frank, Boise, Idaho, Amsterdam, Spokesman-Review, Idaho, New York, All rights reserved, World War II, and Central High School

...all. The Charlotte Observer welcomes your comments on news of the day, but we ask that you keep the discourse civil. And finally, as Mark Twain said: "Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest." The Charlotte...

In this article: Anne Frank, Francine Prose, Otto Frank, The Diary of Anne Frank, World War II, Amsterdam, National Book Award, and Anne Frank