Is a Witch Hunt Being Waged Against Justice Clarence Thomas?

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Is a Witch Hunt Being Waged Against Justice Clarence Thomas?

Rather than first-rate journalism, Abramson's piece reads like a product of the creative writing class she now teaches at Harvard. In the fall of 1991, when the Senate was considering Thomas's nomination to the Supreme Court, Anita Hill testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee that he made
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Playwright and author Tony Kushner coming to WCU

Huber spent thirteen years writing and acting for theater companies in Kansas City and throughout Europe for the USO before returning to the University of Missouri to obtain a bachelor's degree in creative writing, a master's in writing and rhetoric, and a doctorate in rhetoric and history. This evening also
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UI's new undergraduate creative writing degree picks up steam

The University of Iowa is already renowned for its prestigious graduate writing programs, whose alumni have gone on to win major literary awards, including 17 winners of the Pulitzer Prize, six U.S. Poets Laureate, and numerous winners of the National Book Award, MacArthur Foundation Fellowships,
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Google unveils machine learning ad tool

Google unveiled Auto ads, a new ad unit for AdSense, its ad placement service for publishers, to help publishers streamline ad placement on their pages. Auto ads use machine learning to determine potential ad locations, types, and number of ads, while preserving the user experience, according to
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The PEN Ten with Marcus Wicker

Her work has earned her Cave Canem and Jacob K. Javits fellowships, two residencies to the Vermont Studio Center, and an MFA in Creative Writing from Sarah Lawrence College. In 2013, Ebony.com named her one of “7 Young Black Writers You Should Know.” A Spelman College graduate originally
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Category:Creative Commons publishing companies

Category:Creative Commons publishing companies. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Jump to: navigation, search. Subcategories. This category has only the following subcategory. O. ▻ Open access publishers (2 C, 41 P). Retrieved from
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The Bookseller launches illustrator showcase for Bologna

The Bologna Children's Book Fair is the biggest children's book fair in the world. Publishers, illustrators, graphic designers, literary agents, authors, translators, mobile developers, licensors and licensees, packagers, printers, distributors, audiobook professionals, booksellers, brands, librarians and
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Pizza truck finds parking spot at Soldier's Field

It takes three minutes from time of order to chomp down on a Carnivore or Twisted Sausage, two of Chapman's best-sellers. Some of the other, more unique offerings haven't taken off, but Chapman is quick to respond to his market and make adjustments with his menu. “The food truck was a means to an
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What's stopping the sale of your private data?

University of Calgary professors Ray Patterson, left, and Hooman Hidaji have co-authored a study that examines the decision-making process for how website publishers decide to share user data with third parties, and the growing privacy concerns associated with the practice. Photo by Riley Brandt,
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Hidden Voices

The Hidden Voices event's hosts are three modern authors who deserve attention. Each has developed a unique style and approach to writing. Fabu began journaling in grade school. At first, she wanted to be a novelist. But when she tried her hand at poetry in an attempt to break through a creative wall
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What has Donald done?

You reminded me how important my career is, how crucial journalism and creative writing are. I know I am honest, you can't take that away from me. I know this craft is important, and it is not only resilient in America, but it is thriving in spite and because of you. You made me want to subscribe to the
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FoodChain Builds Community That Cooks Together

When Becca Self founded FoodChain in October 2011, she put her science degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to good use in creating an indoor aquaponics farm. She envisioned FoodChain as developing in three distinct yet interrelated phases: an urban farm, a kitchen for
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Palestinian novel dominates the International Arabic Prize for Fiction 2018

2017: “The Slaughter of the Philosophers” by Taissier Khalaf (longlist). The International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) is the most prestigious and important literary prize in the Arab world. Its aim is to reward excellence in contemporary Arabic creative writing and to encourage the readership of high
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Cats pounce, mountains rise this week at Malaprop's

In 1947, he left his job at the Associated Press and returned to Western North Carolina to pursue his interest in creative writing. By 1955, he had begun writing his monthly Roaming the Mountains column for the Asheville Citizen Times. The series was so popular; the columns were collected and
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Finding The Extraordinary In The Everyday: The Essays Of Michael McFee

The North Carolina author's new book, “Appointed Rounds” (Mercer University Press/2017), is his second collection of essays. Its name comes from an iconic line written by Herodotus, but often associated with the U.S. Postal Service: “Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these
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Diet and depression

Just this week, I have seen three patients with depression requiring treatment. Treatment options include medications, therapy, and self-care. Self-care includes things like sleep, physical activity, and diet, and is just as important as meds and therapy — sometimes more… In counseling my patients about
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Net-a-porter, Mr Porter Unveil 'Letters Live' Partnership

Tickets for the event are priced from $50 to $200, and the net profit from ticket sales (following production costs) will be donated to 826LA, an L.A.-based nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting students in creative writing, and Women for Women International, a charity which “supports women
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Lansing poet Eric Crosley brings a collaborative experience to the Robin Theatre

It's been kept alive as a recurring theme of his poetry, immortalized in the bookending poems of his 1993 creative writing master's thesis. “I've been dealing with being a transgender person my whole life, and it's very significant in my writing,” Crosley said. “I consider myself post-transgender, not because
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Scroll Signs On Publishers for Service That Will Curb Their Ads

In 2016, Scroll raised $3 million from backers including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal parent company News Corp and German publishing conglomerate Axel Springer . Gannett, the publisher of USA Today, is also investing an undisclosed amount in the company, Scroll announced Thursday.
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