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phil-bronstein's picture
Jul.25.2008
On Tuesday afternoon, I was lucky enough to weasel my way onto a panel at Stanford on the future of online video. It was an impressive group of...
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dale-estey's picture
Jul.25.2008
I'm innocently going along, adapting my novel to a movie script, well past the half way point (of the movie, at any rate) when a character, who never...
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ericka-lutz's picture
Jul.25.2008
Reading of student papers, bluebooks, etc. a form of torture ... a matter of rubbing an iron file over one's teeth, or holding urine in one's mouth,...
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deborah-shlian's picture
Jul.25.2008
In a recent New York Times article, the reporter described two new drugs inclinical trials for Type 2 diabetes, both of which seem to have a...
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jessica-barksdale-inclan's picture
Jul.25.2008
Last night, I had a dream about a friend of mine with whom, in recent months, I haven't really been getting along.  We were walking down a hall, she...
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stacy-mantle's picture
Jul.25.2008
So, last night the office I happened to be in was stormed by police outfitted with assault rifles and we were all placed on lockdown, which made for...
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gerard-jones's picture
Jul.25.2008
Okay, here's a Comic Con story for you. I'm in the Bud Plant Books booth with my friends Joe and David, looking at all the gorgeous new reprints of...
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evie-shockley's picture
Jul.24.2008
I've been following with pleasure the many responses throughout the Red Room to Belle Yang's provocation: What is poetry? At one point I had in mind...
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ericka-lutz's picture
Jul.24.2008
Vicki Forman's son died early this morning. I've never met Vicki in person, I never met her son Evan. I've never met her brilliant daughter or her...
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julia-flynn-siler's picture
Jul.24.2008
Despite my intention to take a summer sabbatical, an investigative story that appeared on the front page of last Sunday’s Sacramento Bee brought me...
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jorge-richard-guerrero's picture
Oct.02.2008
Courting an Ilocana? How do you say “Do you love me?” in Iluko? Here are some ways: Ay-ayatennak? (Do you love me?) Patpatgennak? (Do you love me...
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alyson-mead's picture
Oct.02.2008
As an editor and ghostwriter, I've sent more authors out on tour than I can count. And, like many writers, that was fine for awhile. I've preferred...
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delia-cabe's picture
Oct.02.2008
Here's a wonderful essay that appeared in The New York Times Book Review, September 28, 2008, which celebrates a great editor:  "What My Copy...
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princess-maleiha-candao's picture
Oct.02.2008
"In the Philippines, the best man is woman"-- these were the words of Leonard Wood, the late Governor General of the Philippines during the...
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nancy-devine's picture
Oct.02.2008
Hey, can you spare a minute for the environment? That's what they ask me every day as I enter the grocery store in search of lunch. Hey, do you...
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bevan-morrison's picture
Oct.02.2008
Gwen Ifill, the managing editor of "Washington Week" and senior correspondent for "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer is set to moderate the...
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elaine-deyo's picture
Oct.02.2008
WHEN I WAS A KID - One When I was a kid, my grandfather was the sheriff in our county. He was the sheriff in our county during my childhood and teen...
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former member's picture
Oct.02.2008
by former member
Birth of an Ocean: The Evolution of Ethiopia's Afar Depression. "Formation of an ocean is a rare event, one few scientists have ever witnessed....
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enoch-john's picture
Oct.02.2008
Well, it seems that Obama is slowly edging ahead,but now is the worst time for complacency.Yes,October is certainly not the time to feel as if the...
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sue-glasco's picture
Oct.02.2008
Dear All-- Late yesterday afternoon, Gerald brought me home from Barnes-Jewish Hospital after 5 days there following our combined trip for BSU...
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