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DALLAS, March 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Weller has appointed Tawanna "TJ" Stewart to Senior Vice President, TX, where she will be responsible for implementing the firm's growth objectives in the State.
Within the role, Stewart will focus on growing Weller's existing client base while identifying new client opportunities to accelerate Weller's property management presence in Dallas, Houston, Austin and other select markets throughout Texas.
Prior to joining Weller, Stewart was most recently Vice President of Operations and Senior Director of Texas overseeing all multifamily assets for Haven Residential, 29th Street Capital's internal management company. With over 20 years of experience working in various positions throughout her career, Stewarts credentials include a wide range of experience in all asset classes from garden style, midrise, lease ups, student housing, and affordable housing in both Texas and Georgia. Stewart has held previous executive positions with RPM (Roscoe), and BH Management. The strategic hiring of TJ coupled with her achievements, integrity, and talent will help Weller's business plan of growth in Texas. I look forward to working with her on our mission of westward expansion." – John Vranich, President of Weller."
"TJ's strong background in property management, her proven leadership and team development skills, plus her experience working across different asset types in all major markets in Texas will help us drive our mission to clients in the region. I am truly excited to have her part of the Weller family." – Joe Emerson, Managing Partner, Weller.
"I believe I have found an amazing new home in Weller. I look forward to bringing my skills, contacts, and experience as an integral part of Weller's growth in Texas," states Stewart. "My goal is to advance our presence with a clear approach that accelerates value for our clients and their assets now and into the future."
Stewart attended West Texas A & M University, holds several designations including CAM, CAPS, and a CPM Candidate and is currently working towards her Real Estate license with a focus in Commercial Real Estate, in addition to several community awards and achievements throughout her career.
Weller is a multifamily property management company with approximately 20,000 units under management with a presence throughout the southeastern U.S., Texas, and Colorado.
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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., March 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Leading multifamily real estate developer Wood Partners announced today the official grand opening of its latest luxury residential community, Alta Raintree, located in Scottsdale, Arizona.
This new luxury apartment community is situated on E Raintree Drive in North Scottsdale, one of the most sought-after residential areas in the Phoenix Metro. Alta Raintree offers residents easy access to renowned outdoor activities, dining, nightlife and shopping, including Kierland Commons and Scottsdale Quarter, which offer some of the best retail options in Scottsdale. Residents of Alta Raintree can also enjoy a round of golf at the many nearby courses, or explore more than 40-miles of hiking, mountain biking and horseback riding trails at McDowell Mountain Regional Park.
"We are pleased to welcome residents to Wood Partners' newest development—Alta Raintree—located in one of Scottsdale's most coveted neighborhoods," said Todd Taylor, Managing Director. "This latest top-of-the-line community truly captures the high level of features and amenities that Wood Partners is known for, while also providing residents with access to some of the city's best retail, entertainment and dining offerings just minutes from their front door."
Alta Raintree offers 330 apartment homes consisting of one-, two- and three-bedroom floor plans. Each unit features modern architectural finishes complete with high quality interior packages, while many exterior facing units offer stunning views of Scottsdale and the McDowell Mountains. Key features include stainless steel appliances, luxurious quartz kitchen countertops with tile backsplash, electronic door entry, and wood-inspired plank flooring to create a timeless and tasteful atmosphere for residents. Additionally, units boast Kohler® bathroom accessories with illuminated mirrors and frameless showers, as well as in-unit washer and dryer sets. Select units feature additional upgrades including side-by-side refrigerators, double ovens, vent hoods and wine refrigerators to bring an added touch of luxury.
Alta Raintree offers a plethora of unique community amenities for residents to enjoy, including a Sky Lounge with expansive views of the McDowell Mountains, a resort-style pool with tanning deck and jacuzzi, and an outdoor game courtyard and putting green. The property is also outfitted with an on-site pet park and multiple outdoor entertainment areas complete with grilling stations. Indoors, residents have access to a fitness center featuring on-demand yoga, a meditation area, a Wi-Fi lounge, a conference area with micro-offices, clubroom and an on-site library and speakeasy. Urbo Market and coffee bar, the on-site convenience market concept created by Wood Partners, will offer coffee, wine, gourmet snacks and more to residents as well.
Alta Raintree is managed by Wood Residential. Visit www.AltaRaintree.com for more information.
About Wood Partners
Wood Partners is a national leader in the development, construction, and management of multifamily communities across the United States. The company has been involved in the acquisition and development of more than 90,000 multifamily homes with a combined capitalization of $17.5 billion. The company currently owns 70 properties across the United States representing more than 20,000 homes. Headquartered in Atlanta, Wood Partners has offices in 22 major markets across 15 states nationwide. The company also operates Wood Residential, an award-winning, full-service property management group that proudly operates both properties developed by Wood Partners and communities owned by third parties. For two years running, Wood Residential has ranked No. 1 nationally for online reputation in the J Turner ORA™ Power Rankings (Division III). For more information, visit woodpartners.com.
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World Woman Foundation Unveils Its Second Edition of World Woman Hour: a 60-Minute Digital Series Spotlighting 60 Female Leaders of Change
#myLEADhER Campaign Honors 60 Women Who Are Leading Boldly, Breaking Stereotypes, and Fighting Inequality for a Sustainable, Healthier, Thriving World For Women and Girls
NEW YORK, March 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, in celebration of International Women's Day, the World Woman Foundation is launching its second annual World Woman Hour, a powerful digital series spotlighting female leaders from around the world. This is the second edition of World Woman Hour's #myLEADhERer — See It. Dream It. Do It event is a socially powered digital movement that will take place in 60 minutes and feature 60 women breaking stereotypes, shattering glass ceilings, challenging the status quo, and fighting inequality around the world. The event will highlight a notable group of world-class leaders, along with their innovative ideas that are changing the world, to educate, empower and inspire future female leaders as doers, dreamers, and disruptors.
These dynamic women include high-achieving innovators in science, health, business, arts and media, and more. The headliners included — Lauren Ridloff, Tony-nominated Actress, Marvel Cinematic Universe's First Deaf Superhero, Damilola Ogunbiyi, CEO of Sustainable Energy for All, Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for this global action group and Co-Chair of UN-Energy. Ashlan Gorse Cousteau, Journalist, Explorer and Ocean Advocate, Brooke Baldwin, Award-winning Journalist and Thought leader, Leyna Bloom, Model, Activist, and Actor, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Emmy winning, Oscar-nominated actress, Tegan and Sara Quin, Canadian indie-pop duo, Hannah Bronfman, Advocate, Author, Founder of HBFIT and Investor Maya Higa, founder of Alveus Sanctuary, Christina Koch, Engineer and NASA astronaut, Michelle Klein, Meta's Vice President of Global Business Marketing and several others.
Every hour somewhere in the world, members of national parliaments or legislatures are making decisions on important issues, and worldwide only 24.3% of these key people are women. The World Woman Hour honorees will share perspectives to lead the new era of a sustainable, peaceful and healthier, and equitable world for women and girls around the world.
The hour will inform viewers how every hour, women have a lack of access to healthcare, education, sanitation, energy, equal pay, and its impact on gender inequalities worldwide.
- Every hour 2512 women and girls are uprooted by conflict, violence, and climate change and 35 women die from preventable causes related to pregnancy and childbirth.
- Every hour as many as 48.1% of girls remain out of school in some regions. About 3,000 women are subjected to arranged marriages.
- Every hour 35 women die from preventable causes related to pregnancy and childbirth worldwide.
- Worldwide, women and girls spend an estimated 200 million hours daily collecting water.
Today women are frontiers of change and faces of the future. Women continue to navigate obstacles pertaining to gender gaps in leadership. For instance:
- Every hour, somewhere in the world, members of national parliaments or legislatures are making decisions on important issues, and worldwide only 24.3% of these key people are women1
- In U.S. business, only 37 of the Fortune 500 companies have women CEOs and less than 30% of the world's scientific researchers are women.
- Minority women are especially underrepresented in STEM fields – of all U.S. women earning PhDs in science and engineering, fewer than 4% were Latina and under 3% were Black2
We've Come a Long Way … and Now Is the Time to Go Further
A key message throughout this digital series is that we are living in a pivotal time for the empowerment of women. While great strides have been made in moving toward gender equality, allowing more women than ever to realize their human potential, much more needs to be done in this regard. And the need is especially urgent now. Rupa Dash, CEO of the World Woman Foundation, states the case plainly. The entire world is at a tipping-point stage marked by "complex crises," says Dash, which means we must unleash the creativity and brain power of women everywhere to meet our challenges: "Women's roles as leaders are critical for a thriving economy, a sustainable planet, and a peaceful world. We know that ultimately, equality for women is progress for all."
See the end of this release for some key data on the present status of women globally. The data show that women are still far from parity in areas ranging from politics and professional work to basic quality of life. Each year, the World Economic Forum publishes a Gender Gap Report estimating how long it would take to reach full parity, across a spectrum of such measures, at current rates of change—and the forecasts are daunting. WEF's 2020 report, based on statistics gathered before the Covid-19 pandemic, projected a staggering 99.5 years to achieve gender parity. The 2021 report showed the pandemic putting a huge additional dent in women's prospects. The timeline to global parity now stands at over 136 years … unless the pace of progress can be ramped up dramatically.
"This crisis gives us a mandate to design a world for exponential change," says Rupa Dash. World Woman Hour showcases 60 female leaders who are doing exactly that, leveraging their own achievements to bring other women to the fore. It's a time for each woman and girl "to recognize her superpowers," Dash says—and for all to pull together as legions of superheroes.
Indeed one headline at World Woman Hour, actor Lauren Ridloff, broke new artistic ground by playing a deaf superhero in the movie Eternals. This is Ridloff's statement to all of us in the real world:
"It does not matter how we voice our power. Leadership could look like the written word, the spoken word, the signed word or artistic expression without words. What is most important is that we voice our power honestly to foster leadership among women. Women who voice their beliefs are leaders, and World Woman Hour offers a platform for women to listen and lead, lead and listen."
The socially powered digital World Woman Hour #LEADhER series will include plenty of artistic expression. Original musical performances during World Woman Hour are produced in partnership with mentees from She Is The Music, a nonprofit founded by Alicia Keys to empower female creators in the music industry. Featured performers include singer Cristina Rae, America's Got Talent Finalist (Season 15), along with spoken-word artist Serena Yang, 2021 New York City Youth Poet Laureate, and 2021 U.S. National Youth Poet Laureate finalist.
The World Woman Foundation has worked with WPP affiliate agencies including BCW and Hogarth Worldwide and their Gramercy Park Studios New York, Fulton Street Music Group, to bring World Woman Hour to life. Our Headliner Partners, without whom this would not be possible, include Billboard, Organon, Chief, Endeavor Impact, Pfizer, Global Entrepreneurship Network, Hootsuite, Johnson & Johnson, Twitter, and Schneider Electric. Strategic Partners include She Is The Music, and We Are Rosie.Max Mara is the Global Fashion Partner for World Woman Hour 2022.
World Woman Hour will premiere at 1 PM EST on March 8. For the latest additional news and information, visit www.worldwomanhour.com any time. Follow World Woman Hour on Instagram, Linkedin, Twitter, and Facebook to see more and share your hero using the #myLEADhER hashtag.
About the World Woman Foundation
World Woman Foundation is a US-based 501(c)(3) public charity with a current global footprint in 20 countries and 15,000 members worldwide. Our vision is to empower 1 million women and girls worldwide by 2030. Our global community of women leaders is committed to scaling and accelerating the impact of women and girls with long-term investments to expand skills, connections, capacity, and visibility. Over the last 5 years, we have built a network of 300 change-makers and 55,000 Global Mentorship Program Graduates in 20 countries who are solving the world's greatest challenges.
Guided by our mission, we launched the global moonshot to reimagine the #equalfuture—a bold new way to accelerate women's leadership that is about dignity, equality, and choice. In practical terms, this will elevate women's socioeconomic milieu by providing access to capital, community, coaching, and commerce opportunities.
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1 Copyright © UN Women (2019) Facts and Figures: Leadership and Political Participation
2 Copyright © Built by Me (2019) 8 Statistics and Facts About Women in STEM
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TORONTO -- A deafening roar greeted the Toronto Raptors during the team introductions on Tuesday — a sound they hadn't heard in two-and-a-half months.
The Raptors were permitted a full crowd of 19,800 at Scotiabank Arena for the first time since Dec. 13, after the Ontario government accelerated the lifting of restrictions.
"I think it'll be great. I think (the fans) will be revved up. They oughta be," coach Nick Nurse said before tipoff. "They oughta be ready to cheer really loud and have some fun and let loose a little bit."
After a lackadaisical loss in January, Nurse had said playing in an empty arena "sucks."
Tuesday's pre-game festivities had a playoff vibe. Fans got free T-shirts. Muggsy Bogues did the ceremonial dimming of the lights.
The Raptors went from a few dozen friends and family members just a couple of weeks ago to a full house. The loosening of restrictions meant they could have have played in front of half capacity at Scotiabank the past two weeks — the Toronto Maple Leafs played three games in front of a half-full arena.
But with the NBA all-star break and a long road trip, the Raptors hadn't played at home since Feb. 12.
The league's most locked-down city, the Raptors were the only team to play in an empty home arena this season.
They'd returned to a full crowd when this season tipped off, after spending a season playing out of Amalie Arena in Tampa, Fla. But the crush of the Omicron variant saw the province go into another lockdown in December.
Initially, capacity was going to rise to 50 per cent Feb. 21 and 100 per cent on March 14.
Ontario's easing of restrictions meant no proof of vaccine was needed Tuesday. Fans, however, were required to wear masks when not eating or drinking. | https://www.cp24.com/sports/toronto-raptors-news/toronto-raptors-welcomed-by-roaring-crowd-after-capacity-limits-lifted-in-ontario-1.5801769 | 2022-03-02T02:12:27 | en | 0.982625 |
NPR's Scott Simon interviews NPR's Bob Edwards, who is leaving as host of Morning Edition after nearly 25 years. They discuss Edwards' 12-year radio frienship with the late sports announcer Red Barber and some of his other favorite moments on the show.
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NPR's Bob Mondello reviews Sweet Sixteen, a Scottish film about a tough teenager determined to raise enough money to buy a gift for his mother upon her release from prison -- a mobile home near the water.
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NPR's Bob Mondello reviews Sweet Sixteen, a Scottish film about a tough teenager determined to raise enough money to buy a gift for his mother upon her release from prison -- a mobile home near the water.
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Pulitzer prize-winning author Jane Smiley is best known for her novels A Thousand Acres and Moo. But she's also an avid owner and breeder of thoroughbred horses -- beautiful and intimidating creatures raised to run fast.
Smiley's new nonfiction book A Year at the Races chronicles her lifelong love affair with horses. NPR's Lynn Neary met with Smiley at Chuchill Downs -- the site of Saturday's 131th running of the Kentucky Derby -- for a behind-the-scenes look at the two-legged and four-legged athletes preparing for the biggest horse race of the year.
Smiley doesn't have a horse running in the derby, but she loves wandering around the backside of any track. As Smiley writes in her new book, the backside is a place for "keeping and divining secrets."
The secrets that interest Smiley the most are not the intrigues between owners and trainers, or the gossip of the jockeys. What interests Smiley are the secrets that lie within the horses.
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What would you do if your mother left this message on your answering machine?: "I'm just thinking, if God forbid you needed to get out of your apartment real fast, maybe you ought to get yourself a parachute."
Or this one: "I hope you're still taking your allergy shots. I don't like that sneeze. [A friend who was allergic] gave one good sneeze and she went into labor."
Well, if you're former advertising executive-turned-comedian Amy Borkowsky -- whose wildly successful compilation of her Mom's messages were collected on a CD and book titled Amy's Answering Machine -- you'd put out a sequel CD, of course. Call it Volume 2: More Messages from Mom.
"You know, everybody's getting a big kick out of my mother," Borkowsky tells NPR's John Ydstie. She heard that a fan even threw a "momioke party," where guests took turns mouthing her Mom's messages while playing them.
Borkowsky insists that her mother is like everybody else's. "She's just a little more extreme." Other mothers are creative in finding alternate uses for things, like converting an old sock into a dusting mitt or making a vase out of a wine bottle. "My mother calls me up a couple of weeks ago to say that the ladies' room in an airport can also be used as a tornado shelter."
There's no telling how far her mother's imagination might wander, as in this message: "Amila, I'm having second thoughts about that little palm-size computer that you bought. You could swallow it and, God forbid, choke... I just read an article about a fellow who lost a tiny cell phone and when he dialed his own number to try and locate it, he heard a ringing sound coming from his dog..."
Borkowsky says her mother's messages drive her crazy, "but I love her and I want her in my life. I'm not going to break up with her [and say]... 'Look Mom, this relationship isn't going anywhere and I'd like to start seeing other mothers.'"
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Fifty years ago, a young recording engineer named Leon Kagarise indulged his passion for country music by dragging his bulky tape recorder to outdoor music festivals in rural Maryland.
His collection now includes thousands of live recordings from the golden years of country and bluegrass music.
Kagarise captured rising stars like Johnny Cash, George Jones, and the Stanley Brothers as they played all-day concerts at rural music parks with names like New River Ranch and Sunset Park. Fans paid $1 per carload to get in. Families would invite the performers to join them around crowded picnic tables as barbecue grills smoked nearby.
Leon Kagarise was a teenager then. Now he's 65. NPR's John Ydstie finds him in the back room of a Baltimore, Md., record store where he repairs audio equipment part-time. As Kagarise plays a tape of the Stanley Brothers performing "Ride That Midnight Train" at New River Ranch in Maryland, he remembers the day in 1961 when he made the recording.
"It was totally raw and totally open and in my recordings you can hear birds singing, you hear people talking during the thing... it was just, it's wonderful," Kagarise says.
The young fan set his microphone up next to the house mic on stage, turned on his machine and wandered off to take pictures and listen to the music. The musicians weren't worried about fans making bootleg copies. They often helped Kagarise set-up his heavy reel-to-reel Ampex tape recorder.
He says he wasn't thinking of posterity when he made the recordings. "I just... I loved the music so I wanted to save it all. It had nothing to do with me being a sound engineer or anything else. I just liked the music and wanted to preserve it as much as I could."
What Kagarise preserved was something extremely rare -- high-quality recordings of live country music from the 1950s and '60s performed in its most natural setting. But until recently almost nobody knew the tapes existed.
Kagarise has kept his recordings in his home near Baltimore, Md. "There is not much room to live in here," Ydstie says. "It looks like the bedroom of a thousand teenage boys. There are piles and piles of collectibles: antique radios, magazines, records, wind-up Victrolas and reel-to-reel tapes."
Joe Lee owns the used record store where Leon Kagarise now has his workshop. Lee knocked on Kagarise's door a couple of years ago. He'd heard that Kagarise might have some old records to sell. "What Joe Lee stumbled into was a treasure trove of recordings buried in junk," Ydstie says.
Lee says it was hard to miss the "stacks and stacks of reel-to-reel tapes. And I plucked one off of the top there and it says, 'Johnny Cash Live in Maryland 1962.' And I said, 'Mr. Kagarise, can we listen to this?' And I expected it to be terrible because I've heard live tapes from back then and nobody had good equipment. And my God did it sound good."
Lee and Kagarise have decided to work together to try to sell the recordings. The Library of Congress, the Country Music Hall of Fame and even some major record labels have expressed interest. Lee says the two men are committed to introducing a new generation of fans to the recordings... to what they say is the unfettered essence of country music captured in the outdoor music parks of rural Maryland.
"You know, these [performers] were people from the mountains and from the rural South," Lee says. "And once they were put in a studio, and they had a producer looking down at their snoot at the guy. And an engineer telling them, 'Well, if you make one mistake, we have to stop and start all over again.' It lost the atmosphere. It's like trying to play guitar in a straightjacket on... It's sort of like being in the zone. When you're really at ease, when there's no intimidation factor, then it really soars. And the proof is in these tapes here."
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NPR's Liane Hansen has the second half of her conversation with the authors of two new books on the use of American power in the world. Niall Ferguson is Herzog Professor of Financial History at the Stern School of Business at New York University. He's the author of Colossus: The Price of America's Empire. Walter Russell Mead is the Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow in U.S. Foreign Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations. His new book is Power, Terror, Peace, and War: America's Grand Strategy in a World at Risk.
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Forty years after the New York Philharmonic spurned Carnegie Hall for its rival, the Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall, the orchestra announces it will return to Carnegie. But the merger of the two prestigious institutions faces potential legal entanglements with Lincoln Center. Jeff Lunden reports.
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Award-winning historian Ron Chernow releases Alexander Hamilton, his new biography of the first secretary of the Treasury, a man who Chernow calls the most underrated of the Founding Fathers.
'Alexander Hamilton' traces Hamilton's rise from a poverty-stricken childhood on the West Indies island of Nevis to his role as a key planner of a new society and his early designs for the American economy.
The biography also details the circumstances surrounding Hamilton's death in a duel with then-Vice President Aaron Burr. NPR's Liane Hansen speaks with Chernow.
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Pat Dowell profiles Canadian Director Guy Maddin, whose new movie, Pages from a Virgin's Diary, is a screen adaptation of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet's production of Dracula. Maddin describes his movie making technique as "primitive," because he strives to give his story telling a dream-like effect. He was motivated to make this movie by curiosity about elements of female sexuality and male jealousy in the Dracula story.
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By the middle of the 20th century, Ram Bhagan -- once home to the mistresses of rich British and Bengalis -- had developed into the main red light district of Calcutta (now Kolkata). And the streets of the tiny slum were as dangerous as any in the world.
But as independent producer Julian Crandall Hollick notes in the second of a three-part audio portrait of modern India, things have changed.
Help came from the local Ramakrishna Mission and its leader Swami Lokeswarananda. The mission built primary and secondary schools, provided teachers and brought the brightest children to its own school.
Since then, Ram Bhagan has thrived on the skills of its native musicians, painters and craftsmen. Of the slum's 3,000 adult residents, nearly 2,000 are involved in the arts.
And the artists give back. They return to teach at the mission school and raise funds to help rebuild the community.
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Shortly after Henry Ford introduced the Model T in 1908, America and its landscape began to change in dramatic ways. The popularity of an affordable, mass-produced automobile spawned the first road atlas, the first motel, the first shopping center, and the first parking garage, says Douglas Brinkley, who has just completed Wheels for the World, a book about Ford -- the man and the company. And the car gave Americans the freedom to travel whenever and wherever they wanted.
"America's never been the same," the author tells NPR's John Ydstie. "We've become addicted to gasoline and automobiles have become an extension of ourselves."
Henry Ford was shrewd enough to see women as "the great consumers of America," and he tailored the Model T toward them, Brinkley says. "If the man was going to be working these 40- or 50-hour workweeks, that gave the woman the time to do the shopping, to be the one who perhaps bought the Model T or the family car, and he won a lot of women over to his product by doing that."
But as much as he was an innovator -- creating the first movable assembly line and paying workers $5 per day so they could make enough to afford the cars they built -- by the 1920s Henry Ford refused to see that the design of the Model T had failed to keep up with the times, the author says.
Company designers snuck behind Henry Ford's back to come up with a new vehicle. "They were desperate to do away with the T," Brinkley says. "It was meat and potatoes in a world that was looking for soufflés in cars." Henry Ford stumbled upon their prototype and "circled it like an angry cat." In a rage, he grabbed a giant pick ax and "just started ripping into it," Brinkley says.
Henry Ford never liked the idea of luxury automobiles, unlike the executives who ran General Motors. They were sure customers would pay more for stylish cars that made them feel good.
"Henry Ford never really changed," Brinkley says. "The times changed. He had his moment when he had his cutting edge in industrial philosophy and General Motors surpassed him and they've been playing catch-up with GM ever since."
The Ford Motor Co. is celebrating its 100th birthday this month.
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For novelist and poet Sandra Cisneros, language is not just a means to communicate, it's a medium textured by words and sounds. Cisneros grew up in a multilingual home: She spoke to her mother in English and her father in Spanish. When she was a little girl she didn't realize they were two separate languages. To her ears, all the sounds meshed together. What mattered was where the words took her. For Intersections, a series on artists' influences, Cisneros talks with NPR's Felix Contreras about how the collision of languages helped shape her voice as a writer.
Cisneros grew up in Chicago, the only daughter in a Mexican-American family that included six brothers. Her family frequently traveled to Mexico to visit her father's relatives. Cisneros says that, as a child, she was uncomfortable with her Chicago neighborhood, in what she describes as a poor part of town without nature or beauty. She found her escape in books -- fairy tales, to be precise.
"I liked the books I read that said things like 'I shan't'," Cisneros says. "I would try to find a way to say in my life, to reply, 'I shan't do that, mother.' That was so far away from my barrio world. "
The first book she owned was Alice In Wonderland. Its highly stylized storytelling, along with that of other fairy tales, made lasting impressions.
"I thought that strange syntax was the language of story books," she says. "I didn't realize those were poor translations... English from Edwardian times… I just knew that they were different [from] the English I heard every day."
Her literary escapes prompted Cisneros to begin writing her own stories and poems. Though she dreamed of becoming a writer, she decided to pursue a more realistic career: becoming an English teacher.
While she was in graduate school, the fairy tales, popular culture from both sides of the border and her life experiences combined to create a distinct literary voice, first heard in her 1984 novel The House on Mango Street. Cisneros' stories -- about ethnic identity, poverty and other aspects of her bicultural world -- sprouted characters with a distinct language of their own. Using the rhythms and cadences of immigrant voices, Cisneros crafted a language to open windows into other worlds -- not for escape but to invite readers in.
"I wasn't aware that House on Mango Street was so influenced by Spanish until after I finished," Cisneros says. "Somebody will exclaim 'What a barbarity!' and we know she's saying 'Que barbaridad.' ...I created some of those structures, word choices and syntax to communicate that we were listening to dialogue in Spanish. I wanted the readers to know that even though I wrote in English, the characters are speaking Spanish."
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Production is underway in Texas for a new movie that may explode long-standing myths surrounding the 1836 siege of the Alamo. The film aims to set history straight by portraying the faults of such Alamo heroes as David Crockett and telling the story in part through the eyes of Mexican soldiers. NPR's John Burnett reports.
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Loretta Lynn and her songs are at the heart of country music. For more than 40 years, she's been singing and writing songs that are honest and timeless. Much of her music takes the vantage point of a strong woman not to be trifled with, like those in "Fist City," "You Ain't Woman Enough (to Take my Man)," and "Don't Come Home a Drinkin' (with Lovin' on Your Mind)."
Lynn has built her career by singing about what she's seen in her own life, starting with her hometown of Butcher Hollow, Ky. She married Oliver Lynn when she was 13, and had four children by the time she was 18. Her husband bought her a guitar, and soon after she landed a record deal. She entered a partnership with the late, legendary producer Owen Bradley and a long string of hits followed.
For her latest release, Lynn collaborated with 28-year-old guitarist Jack White of the thrashy Detroit rock band The White Stripes. White produced her album, Van Lear Rose, encouraging her to write all of the songs. Lynn says the result is a diverse record, with elements -- from her rock-fueled duet with White on "Portland Oregon" to the honky-tonk "Story of My Life" -- that might satisfy and surprise a range of listeners.
Stopping in New York City on her tour for Van Lear Rose, Lynn spoke with NPR's Melissa Block, host of All Things Considered, about her collaboration with White.
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City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco, a focal point of American alternative culture, marks its 50th anniversary on June 8. City Lights was founded in 1953 by Beat movement icon Lawrence Ferlinghetti, now Poet Laureate of San Francisco, and Peter D. Martin. The store's regulars included Jack Kerouac, author of the novel On the Road, and poet Allen Ginsberg.
City Lights helped publish Ginsberg's landmark 1956 poem "Howl," then successfully defended the controversial work in court, establishing new guidelines regarding freedom of speech.
For All Things Considered, NPR commentator Andrei Codrescu reads a poem in honor of City Lights -- and in homage to Ferlinghetti's vision and relentless pursuit of a new cultural awakening.
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The band Modest Mouse has released their first album in four years. The group often referred to as the perfect indie-rock band suddenly finds itself enjoying pop success that had eluded it for 10 years. Mikel Jollett has a review of their new CD, Good News for People who Love Bad News.
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After four years of a record industry war on illegal file-sharing, more people than ever are flouting the rules and swapping music online. The Recording Industry Association of America is trying various tactics to end the practice. NPR's Laura Sydell reports.
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An exhibit in San Francisco celebrates all things Art Deco, including furniture, fashion, jewelry, architecture and industrial design from the early 20th century. NPR's Susan Stamberg tours the show.
One of the show's stars is a large black lacquer cabinet incised with slim silver lines. The French cabinet debuted to big crowds at the Exposition Internationale des Arts Decoratifs et Industriels. The 1925 international decorative arts expo in Paris put the new, modern style on the map. In those days, it was called Moderne, Jazz Moderne or Streamline Modern. The Art Deco label didn't stick until the design was resurrected in the late 1960s.
In the Depression years, Art Deco moved from one-of-a-kind luxury items to mass-produced, more affordable consumer goods -- toasters, cigarette lighters and space heaters. An example on display: a meat slicer that looks like a sleek piece of modern sculpture.
Art Deco, 1910-1939, which was organized by the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, is at San Francisco's Legion of Honor through July 4. It moves to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Sept. 19, 2004-Jan 9, 2005.
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From the Maori culture of New Zealand comes Whale Rider, a film with an appealing 11-year-old central character. She's seeking to follow in her father's footsteps as tribal chieftain. Her grandfather is skeptical. NPR's Bob Mondello offers a review.
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On Thursday, Friends airs its last episode. The long-running Frasier is also winding to a close. Both shows have been keys to NBC's success and the network has been looking for replacements for years. But there hasn't been a breakout sitcom on any network hit since Will and Grace had its debut six seasons back. Some even say that sitcoms have lost their appeal. Two sitcom veterans -- Paul Reiser and Jim Burrows -- are trying to prove that the traditional sitcom lives. NPR's Kim Masters reports.
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In Washington, several aspiring conductors get a chance to learn from a maestro. Leonard Slatkin, music director of the National Symphony Orchestra, offers his young charges advice ranging from clothing tips to the physicality of the job. NPR's Steve Inskeep reports.
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The Walt Disney Co. is blocking its Miramax division from distributing Fahrenheit 9/11, a new documentary from filmmaker Michael Moore highly critical of the Bush administration.
The film blasts Bush's actions before and after Sept. 11, 2001. It also describes financial connections between the Bush family and prominent Saudis, including the family of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.
According to a report in Wednesday's New York Times, Disney Chief Executive Michael Eisner told Moore's agent that he feared the film might endanger tax breaks Disney receives in Florida, where the president's brother, Jeb Bush, is governor.
Moore discusses the controversy with NPR's Michele Norris, host of All Things Considered.
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Bookstores around the country anticipate high interest in Hillary Rodham Clinton's new book and gear up for heavy crowds. Simon & Schuster, which is paying Clinton $8 million, has printed 1 million copies of Living History. Hear Nora Rawlinson, editor-in-chief of Publishers Weekly.
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A spate of films that take critical, satirical looks at corporate and political power are set to hit theaters this spring, many aiming to reach the wider audiences at multiplexes. New films in the genre include Supersize Me, The Yes Men and The Corporation. The Disney Corporation is blocking its Miramax division from distributing director Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11, a film critical of the Bush administration. David D'Arcy reports.
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A 37-year-old Austin man was arrested Tuesday after federal agents accused him of civil disorder and related offenses in last year’s riot at the U.S. Capitol, officials said.
Geoffrey Samuel Shough, 37, was arrested in Austin, according to a Justice Department statement.
Video showed Shough among the crowd of rioters at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, according to a criminal complaint submitted by the FBI. It said the video showed Shough waving a Texas flag and wearing what appeared to be a body-armor vest, ballistic-style helmet, goggles and hard-knuckle gloves.
Shough was among the first few to breach a line of U.S. Capitol Police, overwhelming the officers and forcibly entering the Senate wing, the FBI said.
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The musical Hairspray dominates the 2003 Tony Awards, winning eight awards including best score, book, costume design and director. The performance, which opened on Broadway last year, is the stage version of the 1988 John Waters movie. It focuses on an overweight teenage girl and explores social and racial attitudes of 1962 Baltimore. Hear NPR's Bob Edwards.
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Edward R. Murrow brought rooftop reports of the Blitz of London into America's living rooms before this country entered World War II. After the war, Murrow and his team of reporters brought news to the new medium of television.
On his legendary CBS weekly show, See it Now, the first television news magazine, Murrow took on Sen. Joseph McCarthy and the House Un-American Activities Committee. And he fought with longtime friend -- and CBS founder -- William Paley about the rise of primetime entertainment programming and the displacement of his controversial news shows. That was a fight Murrow would lose.
NPR's Bob Edwards discusses his new book, Edward R. Murrow and the Birth of Broadcast Journalism, with NPR's Renee Montagne. Below is an excerpt from the book, about Murrow's roots.
Book Excerpt
Egbert Roscoe Murrow was born on April 24, 1908, at Polecat Creek in Guilford County, North Carolina. He was the last of Roscoe Murrow and Ethel Lamb Murrow's four sons. The firstborn, Roscoe Jr., lived only a few hours. Lacey was four years old and Dewey was two years old when their little brother Egbert was born.
There was plenty in Egbert's ancestry to shape the man who would champion the underdog. The Murrows were Quaker abolitionists in slaveholding North Carolina, Republicans in Democratic territory, and grain farmers in tobacco country. The Lambs owned slaves, and Egbert's grandfather was a Confederate captain who fought to keep them.
Roscoe, Ethel, and their three boys lived in a log cabin that had no electricity, no plumbing, and no heat except for a fireplace that doubled as the cooking area. They had neither a car nor a telephone. Poor by some standards, the family didn't go hungry. Although the Murrows doubled their acreage, the farm was still small, and the corn and hay brought in just a few hundred dollars a year. Roscoe's heart was not in farming, however, and he longed to try his luck elsewhere. When Egbert was five, the family moved to the state of Washington, where Ethel's cousin lived, and where the federal government was still granting land to homesteaders.
They settled well north of Seattle, on Samish Bay in the Skagit County town of Blanchard, just thirty miles from the Canadian border. The family struggled until Roscoe found work on a railroad that served the sawmills and the logging camps. He loved the railroad and became a locomotive engineer. Roscoe was a square-shouldered six-footer who taught his boys the value of hard work and the skills for doing it well. He also taught them how to shoot.
Ethel was tiny, had a flair for the dramatic, and every night required each of the boys to read aloud a chapter of the Bible. The Murrow boys also inherited their mother's sometimes archaic, inverted phrases, such as, "I'd not," "it pleasures me," and "this I believe."
The boys earned money working on nearby produce farms. Dewey and Lacey undoubtedly were the most profound influences on young Egbert. They likely would have taught him how to defend himself while also giving him reason to do so (although it's impossible to imagine any boy named Egbert not learning self-defense right away). It takes a younger brother to appreciate the influence of an older brother. If an older brother is vice president of his class, the younger brother must be president of his. If an older brother averages twelve points a game at basketball, the younger brother must average fifteen or more. The boy who sees his older brother dating a pretty girl vows to make the homecoming queen his very own. That's how it worked for Egbert, and he had two older brothers. He didn't overachieve; he simply did what younger brothers must do.
When not in one of his silent black moods, Egbert was loud and outspoken. For that reason, the kids called him Eber Blowhard, or just "Blow" for short. His parents called him Egg. In his late teens he started going by the name of Ed.
The boys attended high school in the town of Edison, four miles south of Blanchard. Edison High had just fifty-five students and five faculty members when Ed Murrow was a freshman, but it accomplished quite a bit with limited resources. Ed was in the school orchestra, the glee club, sang solos in the school operettas, played baseball and basketball (Skagit County champs of 1925), drove the school bus, and was president of the student body in his senior year. English teacher Ruth Lawson was a mentor for Ed and convinced him to join three girls on the debating team. They were the best in their region, and Ed was their star. This appears to be the moment at which Edward R. Murrow was pulled into the great issues of the day ("Resolved, the United States should join the World Court"), and perhaps it's Ruth Lawson whom we modern broadcast journalists should thank for engaging our founder in world affairs.
The Murrows had to leave Blanchard in the summer of 1925 after the normally mild-mannered Roscoe silenced his abusive foreman by knocking him out. Fortunately, Roscoe found work a hundred miles west, at Beaver Camp, near the town of Forks on the Olympic Peninsula, about as far west as one could go in the then-forty-eight states. There was work for Ed, too.
After graduating from high school and having no money for college, Ed spent the next year working in the timber industry and saving his earnings. He was no stranger to the logging camps, for he had worked there every summer since he was fourteen. The camps were as much his school as Edison High, teaching him about hard and dangerous work. He also learned about labor's struggle with capital.
Throughout the time Ed was growing up, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), "the Wobblies," were organizing in the Pacific Northwest, pursuing their dream of "one big union." The powerful forces of industry and government were determined to snuff that dream. IWW organizers and members were jailed, beaten, lynched, and gunned down. A lumber strike during World War I was considered treason, and the IWW was labeled Bolshevik. Ed Murrow knew about red-baiting long before he took on Joe McCarthy. There was also background for a future broadcast in the deportations of the migrant workers the IWW was trying to organize. Near the end of his broadcasting career, Murrow's documentary "Harvest of Shame" was a powerful statement on conditions endured by migrant farm workers.
For the rest of his life, Ed Murrow recounted the stories and retold the jokes he'd heard from millhands and lumberjacks. He also sang their songs, especially after several rounds of refreshments with fellow journalists.
In the fall of 1926, Ed once again followed in his brothers' footsteps and enrolled at Washington State College in Pullman, in the far southeastern corner of the state. He earned money washing dishes at a sorority house and unloading freight at the railroad station. Halfway through his freshman year, he changed his major from business administration to speech. That's how he met one of the most important people in his life.
Ida Lou Anderson was only two years out of college, although she was twenty-six years old, her education having been interrupted for hospitalization. Childhood polio had left her deformed with double curvature of the spine, but she didn't let her handicap keep her from becoming the acting and public speaking star of Washington State College, joining the faculty immediately after graduation.
Ida Lou assigned prose and poetry to her students, then had them read the work aloud. She challenged students to express their feelings about the meaning of the words and whether the writer's ideas worked. Ed Murrow became her star pupil, and she recognized his potential immediately. She introduced him to the classics and tutored him privately for hours. Ida Lou had a serious crush on Ed, who escorted her to the college plays in which he starred. Years later, near the end of her life, Ida Lou critiqued Ed's wartime broadcasts. It was at her suggestion that Ed made that half-second pause after the first word of his signature opening phrase: "This -- is London."
His fire for learning stoked and his confidence bolstered by Ida Lou, Ed conquered Washington State College as if it were no bigger than tiny Edison High. He was a leader of his fraternity, Kappa Sigma, played basketball, excelled as an actor and debater, served as ROTC cadet colonel, and was not only president of the student body but also head of the Pacific Student Presidents Association. He even managed to top all of that before he graduated. In December 1929 Ed persuaded the college to send him to the annual convention of the National Student Federation of America (NSFA), being held at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. At the convention, Ed delivered a speech urging college students to become more interested in national and world affairs and less concerned with "fraternities, football, and fun." The delegates (including future Supreme Court justice Lewis Powell) were so impressed with Ed that they elected him president. Ed returned to Pullman in glory. Often dismissed as a "cow college," Washington State was now home to the president of the largest student organization in the United States.
Ed's class of 1930 was trying to join the workforce in the first spring of the Great Depression. Banks were failing, plants were closing, and people stood in bread lines, but Ed Murrow was off to New York City to run the national office of the National Student Federation.
He was barely settled in New York before he made his first trip to Europe, attending a congress of the Confédération Internationale des Étudiants in Brussels. The conference accomplished nothing because divisions among the delegates mirrored the divisions of the countries or ethnic groups from which the delegates emerged. This was Europe between the world wars. The one matter on which most delegates could agree was to shun the delegates from Germany. Murrow argued that those young Germans should not be punished for their elders' actions in the Great War. The Europeans were not convinced, but once again Ed made a great impression, and the delegates wanted to make him their president. This time he refused.
Returning to New York, Ed became an able fundraiser (no small task in the Depression) and a master publicist, too. He convinced the New York Times to quote the federation's student polls, and he cocreated and supplied guests for the University of the Air series on the two-year-old Columbia Broadcasting System. The arrangement with the young radio network was to the advantage of both organizations. Columbia enjoyed the prestige of having the great minds of the world delivering talks and filling out its program schedule.
The first NSFA convention with Ed as president was to be held in Atlanta at the end of 1930. Stunningly bold and years ahead of his time, Ed Murrow decided he would hold an integrated convention in the unofficial capital of deepest Dixie. Howard University was the only traditional black college that belonged to the NSFA. Murrow successfully recruited half a dozen more black schools and urged them to send delegates to Atlanta.
Next, Murrow negotiated a contract with the Biltmore Hotel in Atlanta and attached to the contract a list of the member colleges. If the manager of the Biltmore failed to notice that the list included black colleges, well, that wasn't the fault of the NSFA or its president.
At a meeting of the federation's executive committee, Ed's plan faced opposition. Using techniques that decades later became standard procedure for diplomats and labor negotiators, Ed left committee members believing integration was their idea all along.
Then Ed made an appointment with Adolf Ochs, publisher of the New York Times. He told Ochs exactly what he intended to do and asked Ochs to assign a southern reporter to the convention. This later proved valuable when a Texas delegate threatened to disrupt the proceedings. The Times reporter, an Alabamian, asked the Texan if he wanted all this to end up in the Yankee newspaper for which he worked. The Texan backed off.
Housing the black delegates was not a problem, since all delegates stayed in local college dormitories, which were otherwise empty over the year-end break. The real test of Murrow's experiment was the closing banquet, because the Biltmore was not about to serve food to black people. Murrow solved this by having white delegates pass their plates to black delegates, an exercise that greatly amused the Biltmore serving staff, who, of course, were black.
Ed was reelected president by acclamation. Not for another thirty-four years would segregation of public facilities be outlawed.
From Edward R. Murrow and the Birth of Broadcast Journalism by Bob Edwards, Copyright 2004. Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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Little League International, a local coach and his wife, and a Texas hunting club are now being sued in federal court as an investigation continues into whether the coach sexually abused minors on his team.
But instead of focusing just on the man allegedly at fault, the suit aims to change the way the league and others do business.
The Beaumont-based Bernsen Law Firm is representing eight minors in the lawsuit, which was filed in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas’ Lufkin Division.
The first name the lawsuit targets is the former Evadale Little League president and coach Adam Dale Isaacks, 38. Authorities arrested the Silsbee man Dec. 30 for indecency with a child.
But the lawsuit names the other individuals to hold them accountable for failing to protect the youth involved, according to David Bernsen, who has been practicing law for 40 years.
“The community needs to rally around these young children, support them, lift them up, pray for them but support them,” he said. “This is a situation that I have never seen in that the president of the Little League and the coach of the Little League uses the roster provided to him from Little League as a list of victims and potential victims.
“The system just failed to protect them, and we need the justice system to protect them now and to send a message that we don’t want our children ever treated like this again.
The petition said allegations of assault and sexual abuse of a Jasper County Little League participant initially were reported to Jasper Law Enforcement on Dec. 13. It claims Isaacks committed additional assaults after the initial complaint was given until his arrest later that month.
Following the allegations that originated from a child in Jasper County, the Sabine County Sheriff’s Office previously confirmed to The Enterprise, Isaacks was charged with at least three additional counts of continuous sexual assault of a child. He was held on a $500,000 bond for each charge.
“Every young boy begins Little League with a dream which has been shared by millions of young boys around the world − to play baseball, make the All-Star team, and, someday, play in the Big Leagues,” the petition said. “For Plaintiffs, their first introduction to baseball was through the Evadale Little League and with a coach named Adam Isaacks. Each young player was instructed by Adam Isaacks that he was the coach and if they wanted to play baseball, they had to follow his instructions and demands.”
The lawsuit lists the defendants as Isaacks, Little League Baseball, Inc., his wife Miranda Lynn Dukes Isaacks, Evadale Little League and Bear Creek Hunting Club.
A Little League International spokesperson told The Enterprise on Monday evening that the league is aware of the "unfortunate allegations" made involving "the former volunteer" at Evadale Little League. Due to the pending litigation, the league declined to provide further comment.
Bernsen said federal laws have been passed by the Congress of the United States that pertain to this type of situation, which is why the civil lawsuit has been filed in a federal court.
“Little League failed in protecting (the children), quite frankly, and we are here to fight for them and to fight for the future of young players that would be in a similar situation or playing on a Little League team so that Little League can take the appropriate approach to stopping this type of behavior,” he continued.
According to the facts of the case presented in the 62-page petition, the firm said Adam Isaacks and his wife of 15 years, were “in a position of authority.”
He was an authorized coach of several Evadale Little League baseball teams from 2017-2021 where he coached boys from 6-12 years old. His wife had served as Evadale Little League’s secretary and assistant coach, the information said.
The former Little League president was involved in numerous youth sports organizations, a board member previously told The Enterprise.
The petition highlights violations of Protecting Young Victims from Sexual Assault and Safe Sports Authorization Act, also known as “Safe Sports Act” and the Sexual Exploitation and Other Abuse of Children in violation of Federal Anti-Human Trafficking and other federal statutes.
However, the organization’s website states the Little League’s Child Protection Program was updated in 2018 to “reflect the mandates set forth by the ‘Protecting Young Victims from Sexual Abuse and Safe Sport Act of 2017.’” More specifically, adults in regular contact with an amateur athlete, who is a minor, must report child abuse to law enforcement within 24 hours.
Bernsen said the eight children were allegedly subject to sexual abuse for about five years — some starting when they were just 7 years old.
“In his position, he has taken advantage of these young children, and in the backdrop of all of the other circumstances that have gone on with Michigan State, and Nassar, and Boy Scouts — Little League was aware predators will go toward young victims and all of the safeguards that should have been in place were not in place and we are going to fight for their protection,” he said.
The lawsuit also alleges negligence, including against for-profit Bear Creek hunting club in Sabine County headquartered in Pineland.
The lawsuit claims the approximately 12,000 acre hunting club provided a “sanctuary” for Isaacks to to allegedly commit sexual crimes against children and “failed to provide security to minors,” who were brought to the property and “sexually abused for numerous years,” the petition said.
“Bear Creek created, maintained, and allowed to exist an unreasonably dangerous condition by its failure to properly secure its premises, failure to properly supervise its members, failure to have or implement a security plan, failure to investigate and report the continuous sexual assault of minors over the course of at least 4 to 5 years,” the petition said.
Bear Creek Hunting Club could not be reached by press time.
The firm is seeking monetary relief, including at least $150,000 for each of the families and lists damages, stating in the petition that some of the children have experienced “physical sickness, pain and suffering and bodily injury.”
Others have experienced “physical impairment” and “suffered severe mental anguish in the past and in all reasonable probability will sustain severe mental anguish in the future.” .
“It is for money damages and it is also to shine a light on what happened in this community and how it happened,” Bernsen said. “Hopefully, and the intent, is to prevent it from ever happening again. But we are here on behalf of these young children and we are going to go the distance for them and the community that they come from and to protect these children and others who come after them.”
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Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo is the designated survivor for Biden's State of the Union
Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo is the designated survivor for President Joe Biden's first State of the Union address, CNN has learned from a source, staying away from the U.S. Capitol in an undisclosed location during Biden's remarks.
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Every year, the administration appoints one member of the Cabinet to remain outside the House chamber during the State of the Union in case disaster strikes.
Last year, when Biden gave an address to a joint session of Congress, there was no designated survivor, with Cabinet members viewing the address from afar due to COVID-19 restrictions.
Raimondo, the former governor of Rhode Island, became the secretary of Commerce in March 2021.
A member of the president's "Jobs Cabinet," she has been an active surrogate for the administration on topics including a bipartisan push to expand economic competition with China and address global semiconductor shortages and the bipartisan infrastructure bill passed last November, as well as Biden's stalled Build Back Better agenda.
Raimondo's department works to promote job creation and economic growth. The Department of Commerce oversees a wide range of programs, including the Decennial Census, NOAA Fisheries, the National Weather Service and the Foreign Commercial Service. It also oversees ocean and coastal navigation and helps negotiate bilateral trade agreements.
Raimondo is 10th in the presidential line of succession.
The presidential line of succession is outlined in the Presidential Succession Act of 1792, which was updated during the Truman administration in the Presidential Succession Act of 1947.
The current line of succession is:
- Vice President Kamala Harris
- Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi
- President Pro Tempore of the Senate Patrick Leahy
- Secretary of State Antony Blinken
- Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen
- Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin
- Attorney General Merrick Garland
- Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland
- Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack
- Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo
- Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh
- Secretary of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra
- Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Marcia Fudge
- Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg
- Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona
- Secretary of Veterans Affairs Denis McDonough
Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas was born in Cuba and Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm was born in Canada. Both were naturalized as U.S. citizens, but they are ineligible to serve as president and therefore cannot be the designated survivor. | https://www.wbaltv.com/article/designated-survivor-state-of-the-union-2022/39288420 | 2022-03-02T02:13:56 | en | 0.957277 |
Americans are some of the fattest people in the world -- and McDonald's often serves as the fast-food scapegoat for the country's super-sized bodies. One filmmaker decided to eat nothing but McDonald's for 30 days -- and film it all. The result is Super Size Me. NPR's Michele Norris talks with Morgan Spurlock, the star, director and producer of the film.
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The latest show from artist and filmmaker Matthew Barney is a massive exhibit that fills Manhattan's Guggenheim Museum. A New York Times critic has dubbed Barney the greatest artist of his generation. But the new issue of Artforum says the Cremaster Cycle show may prove to be Barney's Waterloo. Jad Abumrad of member station WNYC reports.
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HOUSTON (AP) — Issues related to media publicity and a gag order as well as a concern over a lack diversity among attorneys representing those killed or injured during last year’s deadly Astroworld music festival were discussed during a court hearing on Tuesday.
The hearing was the first time lawyers handling the nearly 500 lawsuits filed after 10 people died and hundreds of others were injured during a massive crowd surge at the Nov. 5 concert headlined by rapper Travis Scott had met in court after the cases were consolidated before one judge.
After being appointed last month by a judicial panel overseen by the Texas Supreme Court to handle all pretrial matters in the lawsuits, state District Judge Kristen Hawkins issued a gag order in the case.
During Tuesday’s hearing, Hawkins clarified her order, saying lawyers could tell the media about factual issues that happen in court, but she didn’t want attorneys to make their cases in the court of public opinion and possibly influence the jury pool.
“This case should be tried in the courtroom and not on social media or with press releases or other statements to the media,” Hawkins said.
Brent Coon, an attorney who is representing about 1,500 concertgoers and is asking for $10 billion in damages, said after the hearing he understands the judge’s goal of “let’s keep who’s pointing the finger at who, let that be courtroom issues and jury issues ultimately.”
“But this is a case of public import for all the reasons that are obvious,” Coon said.
Most of Wednesday’s court hearing was spent discussing how the cases would proceed, the creation of a leadership structure that would speak on behalf of attorneys for each side, how disputes over evidence or other matters would be handled. Hawkins said she planned to have monthly hearings. She requested that by the next hearing, lawyers give her a breakdown of the various lawsuits by four categories: deaths, bodily injuries, brain injuries and post traumatic stress disorder.
Coon said it could be years before any trials or settlements in the case take place.
During the court hearing, civil rights attorney Ben Crump, who is representing the family of the youngest person to die from injuries during the festival, said that most of the victims killed or injured were Black but the majority of attorneys representing them are white. During Wednesday’s hearing, most of the 50 to 60 attorneys in the courtroom were white.
“There seems to be not much representation in the court of those African American voices. We really grapple with it. We are concerned about them not having a voice,” said Crump, who represents the family of 9-year-old Ezra Blount, who was Black. Ezra's father, Treston Blount, who was with his son at the concert, was at Tuesday's court hearing.
In recent years, Crump has represented victims of police brutality and vigilante violence and has been the lawyer for the families of Trayvon Martin, Breonna Taylor and George Floyd.
Hawkins told Crump this issue is something “that has not gone unnoticed by the court ... I would like that to be considered going forward.”
But Hawkins said she was “not going to choose someone’s counsel for them. I do know we have excellent attorneys in this room and those attorneys come from all aspects of Harris County.”
Neal Manne, who represents Astroworld festival promoter Live Nation, thanked Crump for highlighting this issue, saying, “I agree with him.”
Houston police are still conducting a criminal investigation of the Astroworld concert.
The U.S. House Oversight and Reform Committee in December announced it was investigating Live Nation’s role in the deadly concert.
Last month, Houston officials announced the creation of a new task force that will look at improving the safety at large Houston-area events.
Those who died in the concert ranged in age from 9 to 27 years old. Roughly 300 people were injured and treated at the scene, and 25 were taken to hospitals. Those killed died from compression asphyxia.
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year. My border was it's a Polynesian national motive ice. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yes. We are here today in the dark shadow cast by Putin's war. A war we did not provoke a war. We did not start an outrageous invasion of a sovereign independent state on behalf of the european parliament. I condemn the Russian military aggression against Ukraine in the strongest possible terms and express my solidarity with all those suffering and all those killed.
Biden banning Russia from US airspace because of Ukraine
Updated: 9:09 PM EST Mar 1, 2022
President Joe Biden plans to announce Tuesday night that the U.S. is banning Russian aircraft from its airspace in retaliation for the invasion of Ukraine, according to two people familiar with the decision.The move follows similar action by Canada and the European Union this week. The people spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss Biden’s State of the Union speech in advance.In remarks released by the White House in advance of the speech, Biden offers an ominous warning that without consequences, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s aggression wouldn’t be contained to Ukraine."Throughout our history we’ve learned this lesson — when dictators do not pay a price for their aggression, they cause more chaos," Biden says. "They keep moving. And, the costs and threats to America and the world keep rising."The ban would come on top of a wide range of sanctions the U.S., Europe and other nations have imposed on Russia that are expected to hammer that nation's economy.On Sunday, the European Union and Canada announced they were closing their airspace to Russian airlines and private planes owned by wealthy Russians.The Canadian ban led Russia's largest airline, Aeroflot, on Monday to say that it had suspended flights to New York, Washington, Miami and Los Angeles through Wednesday.The U.S. ban raises the possibility that Russia could respond by prohibiting U.S. flights over its territory, which would make for longer and more costly flights, especially for cargo carriers. FedEx and UPS both fly over Russia, although they announced this weekend that they were suspending deliveries to that country.No U.S. airlines fly to Russia, though a few flights to India pass through Russian airspace. American Airlines routes its lone flight between Delhi and New York to avoid Russian airspace, which adds miles to the trip and means that the flight often requires a refueling stop in Bangor, Maine, on westbound flights.Russia also has an interest in preserving overflights by U.S. carriers. Aviation experts say Russia derives a sizable amount of money from fees that it levies to use its airspace or land at its airports.European airlines fly over Russia far more often than their U.S. counterparts. Before the war, about 600 flights to or from Europe passed through Russian airspace, according to aviation data firm Cirium.A ban on Russian flights could also lead to retaliation against Boeing, a major U.S. exporter and one of the world’s two dominant aircraft manufacturers.Russia and China are widely assumed to be talking to each other about foreign policy. The rise in tension between the West and Moscow makes it less likely that China will soon reauthorize flights by Boeing’s 737 Max jetliner, said George Ferguson, an aerospace analyst for Bloomberg Intelligence.China was the biggest market for the Max before it was grounded following two fatal crashes, and neither China nor Russia has yet approved the plane’s return. A delay in their approving the Max will reduce Boeing’s expected aircraft deliveries, an important source of cash for the Chicago-based company, Ferguson said.
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden will vow to make Vladimir Putin "pay a price" for Russia's invasion of Ukraine in his first State of the Union address.
During Tuesday's address, Biden planned to announce that the U.S. is following Canada and the European Union in banning Russian planes from its airspace in retaliation for the invasion of Ukraine, according to two people familiar with his remarks. They spoke only on the condition of anonymity before the speech.
According to excerpts released Tuesday ahead of his first State of the Union address, Biden says that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine was premeditated and unprovoked.
He will also highlight the importance of European allies in the speech before Congress at the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday evening. Biden says that the alliance established after World War II to secure "peace and stability" in Europe is just as relevant now.
He said that Putin believed he could divide the NATO alliance, but he was wrong.
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An unidentified buyer paid $104.1 million Wednesday for a Pablo Picasso painting sold at Sotheby's in New York -- a record price for a work of art sold at auction. "Boy with a Pipe" was painted in 1905 and dates from Picasso's Rose Period. Hear NPR's Steve Inskeep and reporter David D'Arcy.
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Host Bob Edwards talks with music commentator Miles Hoffman about the history and beauty of Moravian church music, which was first played in America during colonial times. A Moravian music festival is now under way in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. {Music played in the segment:
Most of the music in this piece, including the introductory music and the ending music, comes from Lost Music of Early America - Music of the Moravians. Boston Baroque, Martin Pearlman, director (Telarc CD-80482)
The lively cut of the wind ensemble (which Bob describes as "very festive") is from David Moritz Michael: Parthien 10-14 Pacific Classical Winds (New World Records 80580-2)
The cut of the Civil War Moravian band is from A Storm in the Land Music of the 26th N.C. Regimental Band, CSA. The American Brass Quintet Brass Band. (New World Records, 80608-2)
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Thursday night marks the end of the NBC hit show Friends. After 10 seasons of widespread popularity, the comedy will now be seen only on syndicated reruns. NPR's Robert Siegel talks with James Poniewozik of Time magazine.
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Thursday night marks the end of the NBC hit show Friends. After 10 seasons of widespread popularity, the comedy will now be seen only on syndicated reruns. NPR's Robert Siegel talks with James Poniewozik of Time magazine.
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In the latest movie from Chinese director Chen Kaige, a young violin prodigy moves to the big city with his father. As Beth Accomondo of KPBS in San Diego explains, the movie is about music, family and the conflicts between "old" and "modern" China.
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US braces for refugee crisis as thousands flee war-torn Ukraine
Sizable Ukrainian populations in the U.S. and a bipartisan group of lawmakers are pressuring the Biden administration to act on the growing refugee crisis as a result of Russia's invasion.
The recent resettlement of Afghan evacuees has, to a degree, set expectations among Ukrainians in the U.S., desperate to have their family with them.
While most Ukrainian refugees are headed to other parts of Europe, Biden administration officials are preparing to send money to help with the cause, including a commitment of $54 million in humanitarian assistance for those fleeing.
More than half a million people are already spilling into neighboring countries, including Poland, Moldova and Slovakia, in what the United Nations refugee agency said could become "Europe's largest refugee crisis this century." Countries in the region have become the first destination for those desperately seeking refuge.
That stands in contrast to the evacuation out of Afghanistan last summer, when the U.S. took in thousands of Afghans who had worked for or on behalf of the U.S. during the decades-long war. The Biden administration made a series of accommodations to relocate more than 76,000 Afghans after the fall of Kabul in August. As of now, it's unclear whether those authorities, like humanitarian parole and special refugee designations, will be similarly extended to Ukrainians.
A State Department spokesperson said the administration is working with European allies and partners, as well as international organizations and NGOs, "to support those displaced internally within Ukraine and those who may seek safety in neighboring countries."
Getting out of Ukraine has become even harder after the country's airspace was closed to civilian aircraft amid the invasion, leading the U.S. to cancel outbound flights for Ukrainians approved for refugee resettlement, according to a State Department spokesperson.
"We will continue to work with those individuals fully approved for U.S. resettlement to reschedule their travel where possible through our Resettlement Support Center," the State Department spokesperson told CNN in a statement.
Ukrainian diaspora in US
Prior to last week's Russian invasion of Ukraine, there had already been a steady stream of Ukrainian refugees to the United States in recent years. Dmytro, a Ukrainian national, arrived in the U.S. and resettled in Michigan only weeks ago. The feeling is bittersweet.
"It's pretty stressful to understand that the country you left is essentially not the same country and it's only been three weeks," he told CNN through an interpreter. CNN agreed to identify him only by his first name over security concerns for family still in Ukraine.
For Ukrainians in the U.S. with family abroad, the uncertainty is disconcerting.
There are over 1 million people of Ukrainian ancestry in the United States, according to 2019 census estimates. Traverse City, Michigan, has become one of the destinations with a large Ukrainian community.
Viktoriya, a Ukrainian national, arrived in the U.S. with her family as refugees 25 years ago. Now a U.S. citizen, she's frantically trying to help her relatives who had also been in the process to come to the U.S. get out of Ukraine. CNN agreed to identify her by her first name over security concerns for family still in Ukraine.
"Right now, they are in different places, which makes us scared," she told CNN. "They don't know what to do."
Last month, the Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Services, a refugee resettlement agency in the U.S., was ready to receive 28 Ukrainian refugees, but their flights have since been canceled, according to Timothy Young, a spokesperson for the agency.
Dmytro's brother, sister-in-law, and their 3-year-old child have been at the Polish border for four days, waiting to cross to safety. His brother was also in the refugee resettlement process and was just waiting for travel paperwork. He and his family are now among the scores of people desperately trying to flee.
Resettlement organizations scrambling
Refugee resettlement organizations are racing to mobilize resources to neighboring countries to assist people fleeing Ukraine in what some advocates say could be the world's largest refugee crisis since World War II.
"If these refugees can't go home, the U.S. and the international community need to support them in the region. And if the region, in the long term, can't absorb the refugees, countries like the United States and others need to talk about resettlement," said Melanie Nezer, a senior vice president of global public affairs at HIAS, a refugee resettlement organization.
Thousands of people — primarily women and children — have sought refuge in neighboring countries, waiting days to cross into safety after a perilous journey to the border. USAID Administrator Samantha Power, who traveled to Europe amid the crisis, told CNN Monday that a lot of the most populated border crossings are "chaotic."
News of those crossings traveled thousands of miles away to Traverse City, where a community of Ukrainians is fielding desperate calls and pleas from family and friends fleeing Ukraine. Among them is Pastor of the Slavic Evangelical Church of Traverse City, Vitaliy Pavlishin. The biggest question he's daily is: What to do?
"People have no idea how long it will be," Pavlishin said, referring to the conflict.
Dmytro and Viktoriya, along with their families, were resettled in Traverse City with the help of Bethany Christian Services, an organization based in Michigan that serves immigrants and refugees.
Sandy Mascari-Devitt, a refugee resettlement specialist for Bethany Christian Services, says she has plenty of families willing to take in Ukrainian refugees, but getting them there is the problem. "I have families here waiting that would welcome their families with open arms," Mascari-Devitt said. But, she added, "I have no way right now of connecting the dots."
Calls from lawmakers
A group of Democratic and Republican senators joined together this week to acknowledge the refugee crisis and back humanitarian relief for Ukrainians already in the U.S. in a letter directed to President Joe Biden.
Democratic lawmakers have been calling on the U.S. to lead the way on refugee resettlement. "We also must work with our allies to prepare for a refugee crisis on a massive scale," Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tweeted on Thursday.
Rep. Ilhan Omar echoed her Democratic colleague, saying: "As always, the countries immediately bordering Ukraine will face the greatest burden. The United States should lead by example, and begin to resettle refugees here as soon as it becomes necessary."
Since Russia's annexation of Crimea, the number of Ukrainians resettled in the United States has ticked up and then hovered in the thousands in recent years, according to government data. The refugee resettlement process, though, can be long and cumbersome, meaning that an influx of refugees to the U.S. is not expected imminently.
"The hope is that people can return home quickly. As the days and weeks go on, that hope starts to fade," Nezer said.
The International Rescue Committee, one of the nine major resettlement agencies, is operating in Poland and working with the Polish government on reception centers for Ukrainians and others fleeing, according to Hope Arcuri, a spokesperson at IRC, adding that the agency is reviewing the feasibility of offering funds, trying to provide information on legal services, and language interpretation on site.
The same agencies involved in the resettlement of Afghans are on the front lines of the Ukrainian refugee crisis. The progression of those efforts, and the politics intertwined with it, may be indicative of the months to come as Ukrainians seek safety.
Most recently, for example, tensions over the resettlement of Afghans erupted in Virginia, where a conference center will be used temporarily as a pit stop for evacuees before they head to their destination in the U.S. In a more than four-hour community meeting last week, residents of Lansdowne, a neighborhood in northern Virginia and where the conference center is located, slammed state and local officials and authorities over the lack of transparency and community input.
"No resident of Loudoun County is doubting the mission," one resident said, expressing his anger at the lack of transparency. "All of you have failed us," he added while pointing at local and federal officials, to applause from dozens of residents.
The arguments made by residents were like those of Democratic and Republican lawmakers who supported the resettlement of Afghan evacuees early on. Later, some in the GOP began raising questions about the vetting of those arriving. The response to Ukrainian refugees remains to be seen. But for Ukrainians, this moment, they say, is when people in their country need the U.S. government the most. | https://www.wbaltv.com/article/us-braces-ukrainian-refugee-crisis/39287282 | 2022-03-02T02:14:16 | en | 0.97034 |
A new documentary tells the story of a father and son who went to prison after admitting to dozens of counts of child abuse. It raises doubts about whether justice was served. Winner of the Grand Jury Prize for a documentary at the Sundance Film Festival, Capturing the Friedmans opens in theaters Friday. David D'Arcy reports.
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Fifty years ago, Briton Roger Bannister ran the world's first mile under four minutes. Just six weeks later, Australian John Landy broke Bannister's record, setting up a face-off between the world's first two men to achieve that long-elusive goal.
NPR's Juan Williams looks back on the Bannister-Landy matchup in an interview with Neal Bascomb, author of The Perfect Mile.
In the Aug. 7, 1954, Empire Games race in Vancouver, "you have these two great runners, both of whom had broken four-minute miles, battling at last. Head to head," Bascomb says.
As was his reputation, Landy decided to take the lead from the start. By mid-race he had extended his lead over Bannister to about 15 yards. Landy's friends in the stands thought that with that kind of lead the race was over. But Bannister fought back to win. It was the first time two men had run a mile in less than four minutes in the same race.
The four-minute mile is no longer such a mythic barrier. It has since been broken hundreds of times. Hicham El Guerrouj of Morocco holds the current world record in the mile, at just over 3 minutes and 43 seconds.
Below is an excerpt from The Perfect Mile.
Book Excerpt
Bannister dashed into the final turn, shocked that Landy was still driving so hard. This man was a machine. Because Bannister had abandoned his even pace in the third lap, he was more tired at this point than he had expected to be. They had run so fast, for so long. Bannister had to win, though. He had too much to prove to himself and to others. His finishing kick had to be there in the end. It had not been in Helsinki. Every hour of training, every race, every sacrifice, every bit of his love for running, had come down to this final moment, this final half-lap around the track. When they came out of this bend into the final straight, he had to be close enough to strike. Once again he drew a bead on Landy's back. His legs had to be deadening, Bannister told himself. Stride by stride, Bannister closed the gap between them. If Landy had only known how much he had exhausted his competitor, he might have found the strength to go faster, but he didn't know. The front-runner never did.
As they neared the home straight, Bannister marshaled his remaining kick. This was his final chance. This was the point in the race he and Stampfl had decided Landy would never anticipate, this was the strike he had practiced with Chataway. Bannister needed to win. He had to win. The Australian could run as an expression of the best that was within him, but Bannister ran to be better than anyone else. This was the moment to reveal that he was. Ninety yards from the tape, Bannister swung his arms high and lengthened his stride. He urged his tired muscles into action. The effort took every shred of will and heart he had left. When he passed Landy, he wanted to do so fast.
Coming out of the bend, Landy thought he had finally shaken Bannister. He could no longer see Bannister's shadow. Good thing, since Landy knew he had no more strength in his legs. He looked over his left shoulder to make sure he had succeeded.
Exactly at that moment Bannister hurled himself around Landy on the right in two long strides, seeing the Australian glance the other way and knowing that the hesitation would cost him, if only the smallest fraction of a second. At seventy yards to the tape, Bannister seized the lead. It was exhilaration. It was triumph. Although excruciatingly painful to keep his speed, this was the moment he loved most in running, the moment when his spirit fused with the physical act of running. The roar of the crowd pushed him onward. Everything was a blur but the finish line. He sped down the track, momentum carrying him now. Landy tried to kick again down the homestretch but knew that his legs were finished.
From The Perfect Mile by Neal Bascomb, Houghton Mifflin Co. (2004)
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Actor Gregory Peck electrified Hollywood with his 1962 portrayal of Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird. Peck died in his sleep Thursday at his Los Angeles home. NPR's Renee Montagne talks about Peck's career with film historian Damien Bona.
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Just in time for Mother's Day, participants in the StoryCorps national oral history project make special recordings with, and for, their mothers.
NPR's Steve Inskeep listens to some of the conversations with David Isay, the project's creator. People as young as five years old and as old as 103 have made recordings in a special booth at New York City's Grand Central Terminal, Isay says.
In one recording, Philomena Luciani, 82, remembers how difficult it was for her mother, an Italian immigrant, to communicate when she first came to America.
In another, Lynne Lande, who is a lesbian, interviews her daughter Kaitlyn Sever, 10: "What do you want to see yourself do when you're a grownup? What do you imagine, what would make you happy?"
"I think I might want to be straight, with a nice husband," Kaitlyn replies. "But, of course, I don't have any idea what it's like to have kids..."
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Mexican cinema has experienced a renaissance in recent years with Amores Perros, Y Tu Mama Tambien and The Crime of Padre Amaro. Herod's Law is the latest Mexican film to reach the United States. The film, released in 2000, was the first to attack Mexico's then-ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) by name. Los Angeles Times and Morning Edition film critic Kenneth Turan offers a review.
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The new action-adventure film Van Helsing centers on the venerable doctor, an expert on vampires who masterminded the counterattack on Dracula in Bram Stoker's novel about the blood-sucking count. Los Angeles Times film critic Kenneth Turan has a review.
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The science-fiction action film The Matrix and the animated Monsters Inc. may belong to different genres, but they have a striking similarity: both tell the story of an alternate universe fueled by the efforts of humans who are unaware that they are doing the fueling. NPR's Bob Mondello offers his thoughts on the subject.
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In her new work Safe in Hell, now on stage in Southern California, playwright Amy Freed renders the Salem witch trials as black comedy. The play centers around the dysfunctional relationship between two historic figures involved in the 17th-century trials: moralist Increase Mather and his son, Cotton. Freed talks with NPR's Renee Montagne.
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Chris Epting writes a guidebook to a broad range of historic and often hysterical American landmarks -- more than 700 in all. James Dean Died Here includes the spot where the young movie icon perished in a car accident, the location of the Brady Bunch house, and the hangar where the final scene of Casablanca may have been shot. Hear Epting and NPR's Steve Inskeep.
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Carandiru, the new fiction film by Hector Babenco, who directed Kiss of the Spider Woman, is based on a true story of life in a notorious Brazilian prison. In 1992, conditions there spawned a riot in which over 100 inmates were killed. Minnesota Public Radio's Euen Kerr reports.
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Twenty years ago Wednesday, Sally Ride became the first American woman in space, on board the shuttle Challenger.
That milestone was preceded by a secret program in 1961 to test women pilots for space flight.
NPR's Melissa Block talks with Martha Ackmann, a senior lecturer of Women's Studies at Mount Holyoke College and author of a book about the program to put women into orbit, The Mercury 13: The Untold Story of 13 American Women and the Dream of Space Flight.
Out of a pool of women selected to undergo trials, 13 women endured and passed the battery of grueling physical and psychological tests — the same tests the original Mercury 7 male astronauts underwent at the Lovelace Foundation in Albuquerque, N.M.
In some cases, the women scored better on the tests than their male counterparts.
The names of the women pilots and would-be astronauts — among them, Jerrie Cobb, Wally Funk, Myrtle Cagle, Bernice "B" Steadman — are largely lost to history.
The testing program was halted and eventually scrapped, in large part, Ackmann writes, because of a pervasive "boy's club" attitude at NASA.
Ackmann writes of dedication and sacrifice of the women in the "space race" with the Soviet Union (The Soviet Union launched the first woman into space in 1963).
But the book is also an indictment of the sexist attitudes that kept the women from becoming astronauts — even though some of the candidates were among the most accomplished pilots of their time, male or female.
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Ancient Rome and Greece seem to be the hot topics for major motion pictures once again. Troy, with Brad Pitt as Achilles, opens in theaters next weekend. Alexander, directed by Oliver Stone, opens this summer. Pat Dowell reports on why filmmakers find the ancient venues so appealing.
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The fifth book in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, goes on sale at 12:01 a.m. ET Saturday. The U.S. publisher has commissioned a record first run of 8.5 million copies. Thousands of bookstores across the United States plan late-night Potter parties. NPR's Elaine Korry reports.
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Once a month, we ask our listeners to tell us what music they listen to. We've been introduced to an eclectic mix of classical music, '80s disco and alternative rock. But if you're a mother of young children, you may not have as much musical freedom. The songs you listen to are, inescapably, the songs your kids are listening to.
Catherine Savage is one of those moms, living in Lake Zurich, Illinois. She says her own musical explorations have been put on hold by the demands of keeping up with the ever-changing favorite songs of her two daughters. Even with "adult" music dropped from the family's rotation, however, Savage says she manages to unearth and appreciate some gems from the world of children's music.
To introduce and discuss her selections, Catherine Savage joins us along with her two children, Karenna and Lindsay.
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The Legend of Suriyothai is based on the true story of the 16th century Thai queen Suriyothai. The movie comes to the United States under the auspices of legendary filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola. Los Angeles Times and Morning Edition film critic Kenneth Turan offers a review.
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NPR's Liane Hansen speaks with clinical psychologist and sociologist Thomas J. Cottle, author of When the Music Stopped: Discovering My Mother (SUNY Press). Cottle's mother, Gitta Gradova , was an established concert pianist of the 1920's and 30's, and she relished her budding career and rubbed elbows with the musical greats of the day. She gave it up to raise a family, and her son contends it led her into depression.
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The new movie The Hulk is based on a Marvel comics character who is a sort of muscle-bound green id run amok. The film, from acclaimed director Ang Lee, has received mixed responses from the nation's critics. NPR's Bob Mondello offers his review.
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After more than 40 years, one of the most beloved and acclaimed children's stories is coming to the small screen. Madeleine L'Engle's Newbery Award-winning book A Wrinkle in Time is part science fiction, part coming-of-age novel. And it's been made into a TV movie, which airs on ABC Monday night.
Published in 1962, A Wrinkle in Time tells the story of Meg Murry, a 12-year-old who, along with her brother and a friend, must travel through space and time to rescue her father from evil forces. Its themes of affection and courage -- presented with an intelligence that brings readers back again -- have won generations of fans.
The filmed version of L'Engle's story was shown at children's film festivals in the United States and Canada. In Toronto, it won the award for best feature film.
NPR's Susan Stone talks with author Madeleine L'Engle and co-executive producer Catherine Hand, who helped bring the story to the small screen.
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At a meeting of the World Archaeological Congress in Washington, D.C., archaeologists say post-war instability masks the full extent of Iraq's missing antiquities. But archaeologists stress that while looting is rampant in Iraq, similar destruction is occurring at museums and excavation sites around the world, including China, Guatemala and Afghanistan. Hear David D'Arcy.
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Liane Hansen has been the host of NPR's award-winning Weekend Edition Sunday for 20 years. She brings to her position an extensive background in broadcast journalism, including work as a radio producer, reporter, and on-air host at both the local and national level. The program has covered such breaking news stories as the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the capture of Saddam Hussein, the deaths of Princess Diana and John F. Kennedy, Jr., and the Columbia shuttle tragedy. In 2004, Liane was granted an exclusive interview with former weapons inspector David Kay prior to his report on the search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. The show also won the James Beard award for best radio program on food for a report on SPAM. | https://www.publicradiotulsa.org/2004-05-08/the-subdudes-return-with-miracle-mule | 2022-03-02T02:15:15 | en | 0.964912 |
Leon Uris, a master of historical fiction, died Saturday of heart failure at his home on Shelter Island, N.Y. Uris was best known for his novel Exodus, which told the story of Jews trying to establish modern Israel. NPR's Michele Norris speaks with Jill Uris about her ex-husband's life and work.
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We remember actor, producer, author and comedian Alan King, who died Sunday. He was 76. King died in Manhattan's Sloan-Kettering Medical Center of lung cancer. He was known for his wry observations on suburbia and life at large.
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Seventy-two years ago, the very first Indian "talkie" premiered, featuring seven songs. Ever since, music and movies have been woven tightly together in Bollywood, India's prolific film industry. The CD The Best of Bollywood collects some of the biggest film-soundtrack hits from the past 30 years. Chris Nickson has a review.
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This season, the new musical Wicked has taken Broadway by storm. Based on a novel of the same name by Gregory McGuire, Wicked is set in the land of Oz before Dorothy blew in.
Wicked has won over audiences by forcing them to re-imagine the well-known tale of good v. evil, presenting them with a Wicked Witch of the West that's a smart, misunderstood feminist and a Glinda the Good that's a peppy, ambitious beauty.
The show's composer and lyricist is Stephen Schwartz. His best-known musicals are Pippin and Godspell -- shows that have played on Broadway and become high school staples. As part of Intersections, a series on artists' inspirations, Schwartz speaks with NPR's Neva Grant about the patchwork of influences that have shaped his musical style.
Schwartz's best tunes sound surprising and newly minted no matter how often one hears them. But Schwartz says that, to him, his style feels like a conglomeration of everything he's ever loved.
"My style of writing has been influenced by sort of scavenging the pieces of music that I've heard, and it'll just be a moment" that he might use for inspiration, he says.
When he sits down to write, Schwartz usually starts with the title of a song. Then comes the scaffolding (chords), melody and last of all lyrics, which he says should cling to the silhouette of the music. Schwartz names dozens of artists who've influenced him over the years -- everyone from Beethoven to Sting.
Perhaps this medley of influences explains what people have come to identify as the "Schwartz style." The best of his music carries a universal emotional power, echoes of chords and melodies that people have loved for generations and continue to resonate.
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Davy Rothbart is the creator of FOUND magazine, an occasionally-published journal filled with found notes, photos and audio sent in from all over the nation. The magazine prints these found submissions using grainy, black-and-white photocopies seemingly taped together on the page.
The found objects could be love letters, reminders, journal entries, even scrawled threats like this one: "Paul and Olivia, Our doorbell is NOT a toy, stop ringing it or I'll have to call your parents."
Rothbart says that catching these drifting pieces of ephemera isn't about hunting for them. "It's just having an awareness of bits of paper floating around," he tells NPR's Melissa Block. "One in five is usually pretty wonderful.
"The key, I think, is to not tune out things you normally would," he says. "Don't pick up any trash, but things that look promising. Stop for a second, and give a look."
Rothbart is aided by an enthusiastic band of "finders" who share his passion. They scour and scavenge and send him their best finds. Block joined two FOUND "finders" recently — Eldad Malamuth and A.J. Wilhelm — in search of FOUND-worthy ephemera in the Washington, D.C. area.
There's a lot of dirty disappointment in the hunt — chicken bones, a gas receipt, used Kleenex. But occasionally finders are rewarded with something with meaning or mystery. On this day, it's a card cut in the shape of Babe the pig, with a nametag that says "Brandon." Inside is a special note, scrawled in a child's hand: "Hi Pig. Today is Monday. It's rainy day. Love Brandon."
Rothbart figures he gets about 10 FOUND submissions in his mailbox every day — 10 chances for something that might make it into the latest issue of FOUND magazine, which comes out this fall.
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French arts performers plan to strike as the Cannes Film Festival gets under way Wednesday in France. Actors, dancers, electricians and cameramen say government reforms have cut some of their unemployment benefits. Festival organizers scrambling to make sure the event is not shut down. NPR's Renee Montagne reports.
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Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle is the latest in a summer of sequels. Lucy Liu, Drew Barrymore and Cameron Diaz fight off a handful of evil doers and dangers from the trio's individual and collective pasts. Los Angeles Times and Morning Edition movie critic Kenneth Turan says the film is "full of physical stunts, tons of popular culture references and a relentless teasing sexuality." Turan offers a review.
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In writer Lucy Grealy's 1994 memoir Autobiography of a Face, she told of the facial bone cancer that ravaged her jaw and the years of pain and treatment that followed: radiation, chemotherapy and dozens of surgeries.
Lucy Grealy died in 2002 at age 39. She had spiraled into drug abuse and tried to kill herself several times. Her death was ruled an accidental overdose.
Now, the novelist Ann Patchett has written her own memoir: the story of her friendship with Grealy. The two met as undergraduates and their friendship grew along with their careers as writers. In Truth and Beauty: A Friendship, Patchett writes about Grealy's courage and her love of life. NPR's Melissa Block talks with Patchett about Grealy's life.
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The Oregon Shakespeare Festival is presenting a two-play cycle called Continental Divide. The David Edgar production portrays a governor's race from the separate perspectives of the Republican and Democratic parties. Dmae Roberts reports.
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Some audiophiles with compact discs older than 10 years are noticing pin holes, oxidation, or flaking in the aluminum layer of their CDs. "CD rot" is not a common problem, but it does challenge claims that CDs are indestructible. NPR's Steve Inskeep reports.
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Deck: To be up on the latest trends, cutting edge, and/or hip.
If you're a hipster, you already knew that. But if you need help understanding the latest lingo for the hip urbanite, The Hipster Handbook may be just the guide for you. NPR's Madeleine Brand stops by the book party at a downtown New York club to find out just what it means to be a hipster.
"Every culture has its rules," Brand reports. "For hipsters there is one cardinal rule: never admit that you are a hipster."
One of those attending the party at the Knitting Factory is Shelly Jackson. She's wearing a pink, white and blue crocheted miniskirt, a ripped T-shirt with a monkey on it, a child's pink cardigan, and knee-high black motorcycle boots. Jackson says she would never identify herself as a hipster. "That's so annoying," she says. Jackson prefers to think of her style as "original." But she laments that her style is now easily found at Urban Outfitters.
"Therein lies the eternal hipster frustration: eventually, the masses will copy you," Brand says.
Robert Lanham, who wrote The Hipster Handbook, modeled it on The Preppy Handbook of a generation ago -- a sort of anthropological journey into clothes, hair cuts and slang. Lanham researched the guide at what he considers the epicenter of hipsterdom: Williamsburg, Brooklyn. He eavesdropped on conversations at bars and coffee shops to pick up words such as "deck" (previously known as "cool" in older generations) and its opposite, "fin," which means lame.
"These terms are definitely on the periphery," Lanham says. "They're underground terms. They're emerging. They're for real."
Below is an excerpt from The Hipster Handbook (Anchor Books), by Robert Lanham.
Clues You Are a Hipster
» You graduated from a liberal arts school whose football team hasn't won a game since the Reagan administration.
» You frequently use the term "post-modern" (or its commonly used variation "PoMo") as an adjective, noun, and verb.
» You carry a shoulder-strap messenger bag and have at one time or another worn a pair of horn-rimmed or Elvis Costello-style glasses.
» You have one Republican friend who you always describe as being your "one Republican friend."
» Your hair looks best unwashed and you position your head on your pillow at night in a way that will really maximize your cowlicks.
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The Motion Picture Association of America is considering whether to sue individuals who illegally download movies online, much the way the music industry went after those who pilfer music. Faster technology allows for faster downloads of large computer files such as movies. NPR's Kim Masters reports.
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From his hit television sitcoms to Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids cartoons, children have played a major role in Bill Cosby's career. In his latest project, Cosby has written Friends of a Feather, a book he hopes will appeal as much to adults as to their kids.
As he tells NPR's Bob Edwards on Morning Edition, Friends of a Feather deals with some complex themes, including loss and pain. Cosby says it's not a book to be read by a child, but one that should be read to a child.
"Children will not have the knowledge to be able to get the depth of what's there. I am hoping to reinforce the role of the parent over the mysterious unknown people that a child may want to perform for, and I don't mean as an entertainer."
The book tells the story of three birds -- Slipper, Feathers and Hog -- who perform aerial acrobatics that amaze and entertain crowds of people who gather on the beach. Cosby got the idea for the story after watching pelicans fishing along the coast of the Virgin Islands the year his son died.
The 27-year-old Ennis Cosby was shot and killed while changing a flat tire. Bill Cosby was looking for a way to remember his son. When he saw the birds soaring over the beaches, he was inspired to write a book about love, friendship and loss.
Cosby asked his oldest daughter, Erika, an accomplished painter, to illustrate Friends of a Feather. One of the birds, Feathers, has an unusual red symbol on its chest. "Dad said he wanted it to look as though, in an abstract sense, there was a smile or a face on the chest," Erika Cosby says.
Bill Cosby explains: "The smile is my son's smile. Feathers is not really Ennis. The smile is Ennis's because he greeted people with two words, 'Hello, friend.' And you can only think of a smile."
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Singer Hayley Westenra is fresh from success on the international classical charts, and hoping to win new fans in the U.S. NPR Senior Correspondent Juan Williams talks with the 17-year-old New Zealand soprano about her voice and her new album, Pure.
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Gregory Peck, one of the enduring stars of Hollywood's golden age, dies at his home in Los Angeles. He was 87. More often than not, Peck played the hero. He won an Oscar for his 1963 role as the quietly courageous defense lawyer Atticus Finch in To Kill A Mockingbird. Pat Dowell offers a remembrance. (Please note this correction: "Listeners to the first feed of our program last Thursday may have heard an error in our obituary for Gregory Peck. Pat Dowell placed the story of To Kill a Mockingbird in Mississippi. That led Chuck Bearman, chief of staff in the office of Mississippi's secretary of state, to write. As he pointed out -- It was not set in Mississippi, but in Alabama.")
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Singer Sam Phillips began her music career as a Christian singer. She took her faith with her and began to make pop music that are modern torch songs, songs of love and pain. The music on her latest CD, A Boot and A Shoe, is stark, with production from T Bone Burnett. NPR's Melissa Block talks with Phillips about the characters and many angles the writer uses to compose music that is more impressionistic than storytelling.
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Journalist David Brinkley, whose career paralleled much of the evolution of American television news coverage, dies of complications from a fall at age 82. Brinkley first gained fame in the 1960s co-anchoring NBC's evening news program with Chet Huntley; he later hosted ABC's This Week with David Brinkley. Brinkley won 10 Emmys and three Peabodys during his career. Hear NPR's Cokie Roberts.
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A new movie is selling out theaters in Iran but angering some of the country's religious leaders. Government censors delayed the release of The Lizard, and some leading clerics want it banned altogether. Hear NPR's Steve Inskeep and journalist Roxana Saberi.
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Actor, director, writer and producer Hume Cronyn died Sunday at his home in Fairfield, Conn., from prostate cancer. He was 91. A veteran of both stage and screen, Cronyn was perhaps best known for his collaborations with his wife, the late Jessica Tandy. The couple received a special lifetime achievement Tony in 1994. NPR's Ari Shapiro offers a remembrance.
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Music Review: 'Easy Living' from Enrico Rava Published May 13, 2004 at 11:00 PM CDT Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Listen • 0:00 Jim Fusilli reviews Italian trumpeter Enrico Rava's latest CD Easy Living, which he says blends elements of traditional American jazz with a unique Italian touch. Copyright 2004 NPR | https://www.publicradiotulsa.org/2004-05-13/music-review-easy-living-from-enrico-rava | 2022-03-02T02:16:16 | en | 0.869458 |
College baseball players and fans head to Omaha, Neb., for the NCAA 2003 Men's College World Series. Organizers expect to sell more than 250,000 tickets as the country's top eight college baseball teams compete for the national championship. Hear Deborah Van Fleet.
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Profile: Writer Andrew Sean Greer By Susan Stamberg Published May 13, 2004 at 11:00 PM CDT Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Listen • 0:00 NPR's Susan Stamberg visits writer Andrew Sean Greer in San Francisco to talk about his new novel, The Confessions of Max Tivoli. Copyright 2004 NPR | https://www.publicradiotulsa.org/2004-05-13/profile-writer-andrew-sean-greer | 2022-03-02T02:16:22 | en | 0.892762 |
Baseball Hall-of-Famer Larry Doby, the first black player in the American League, dies after a long illness. He was believed to be 79. Doby was named to seven straight All-Star teams in his 13-year career, most of it spent with the Cleveland Indians. He experienced discrimination both on and off the field, but in later years rarely displayed bitterness. Hear NPR's Bob Edwards.
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Burak Bilgili was understandably nervous. Last week, without the benefit of a full-stage or orchestra rehearsal, Bilgili made his debut at the Metropolitan Opera as Leporello in Mozart's Don Giovanni.
NPR's Scott Simon talks with the 29-year-old Turkish bass baritone about being asked to fill in at the last minute in front of 4,000 opera aficionados. It was truly the chance of a lifetime and Bilgili made the most of it.
Bilgili "nailed" Leporello's classic Aria No. 4, which describes in glorious detail "the beauties my master has loved" -- Don Giovanni's female conquests. And when he took his solo bow, the audience at the Met roared its appreciation.
Bilgili graduates this month from Philadelphia's Academy of Vocal Arts where he has been studying under Maestro William Schuman.
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As her memoir, Living History, tops the best-seller lists, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton talks with NPR's Juan Williams about her political ambitions, President Bush, and her husband, former President Bill Clinton.
Topic A of all conversations about her book is the Monica Lewinsky sex scandal that nearly brought down Bill Clinton's presidency. Asked why she stood by her man through it all, Mrs. Clinton says, "I have to do what is right for me. I don't ask anyone else to live my life. I have enough trouble doing that," she adds with a laugh.
She says it was a "terrible, painful experience" for her family. "I worked very hard to decide what was right for me and my family. When we entered into counseling, we not only focused on the present, we obviously focused on the past. And we went through whether or not we wanted to remain married."
"This relationship has been tried and tested and it gives me an enormous amount of support and satisfaction and pleasure. As I write about my husband, he is a force of nature. I knew that when I met him. I married him with my eyes open. I knew that this was one of the most energizing, interesting, larger-than-life people I'd ever met. And I can only say that for me, meeting and marrying Bill and choosing to stay married to him when I did were the right choices."
As for claims by pundits that she has written the book to "inoculate" herself from future criticism about the scandals of the Clinton White House, she says: "I have learned, perhaps the hard way... over the years that I just have to do what I think is the right thing for me to do, because there are so many different people with so many different agendas. You couldn't get out of bed in the morning if you were listening to what everybody was saying or assessing."
"Obviously, this book to me is my best attempt to lay out how I viewed the White House years. In some respects, it is a closing of a chapter, and I think that everybody wants to move on."
Though she has said she has no plans to run for president in 2004, Williams asked Mrs. Clinton if she would reconsider should the economy continue to founder. "No, I cannot foresee that. I want to serve out my term. I want to do the best job I can as senator, but I am increasingly speaking out because I am very worried about the direction of our country."
She criticizes the Bush administration for a "power grab on so many fronts" which she calls an attempt to implement a "very radical, right-wing agenda."
Though Mrs. Clinton voted in the Senate to authorize President Bush to go to war in Iraq, she says the jury is "still out" on the veracity of the evidence that the Bush administration presented on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. "I want to know, who were we relying on [for intelligence]? Who were the people giving us this information? Because this administration has taken a very aggressive posture. You know, they talk about preemption. Therefore, I'm concerned that when I'm given information, it is scrubbed and as accurate as it possibly can be, especially when I see an administration that is willing to go a little further perhaps to pursue what they view as appropriate means to achieve ends that I may or may not agree with."
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Alexander McCall Smith is the author of the hugely popular "No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency" series. The Full Cupboard of Life, set in Botswana, is the fifth book in the series. Detective Precious Ramotswe is also back. She helps people in her close-knit community deal with the little incidents of life. Hear Smith and NPR's Scott Simon.
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Donald Trump has devoted much of his last week to rewriting history when it comes to his relationship with Russia, Ukraine, and NATO. Among other things, the former president has claimed that Vladimir Putin “never would have” invaded Ukraine on his watch; that there “would be no NATO” if it wasn‘t for him; and that he generously armed Ukraine “when the previous administration was sending blankets.” These statements, of course, are lies. When it comes to NATO, Trump had to be convinced not to destroy the organization. With regard to Ukraine, the former president conveniently leaves out the part about how he famously tried to extort the country and make U.S. aid conditional on President Volodymyr Zelenskyy agreeing to dig up dirt on Joe Biden.
As for the idea that Trump was so tough on Russia that Putin feared him, and wouldn’t have dared to attack Ukraine if the 45th president had gotten a second term, well, please enjoy this exchange between former Trump administration official John Bolton and Newsmax on Tuesday morning:
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Newsmax: There is something to be said though, about the simple fact that there was not aggression during the four years. I mean, you were part of that administration as well, and there was not aggression from Russia and they waited him out, it seems, and made a move. I mean, we have a list of things, the Brookings Institution says that the “Trump administration implemented 52 policy actions against Russia,” was pretty tough on Russia in a lot of ways. Forcing NATO members to pay up; as we know, sanctioning Nord Stream 2; oligarchs close to Putin were sanctioned; selling anti-tank weapons to Ukraine, so arming Ukraine; withdrawing from the INF treaty; and expelling Russian officers from this country as well. In 2018, he looked NATO members in the eye and talked about the reliance on Russian energy by Europe and how horrible that was. I mean, he took a very tough stance against Russia. I’m surprised you don’t think that he would’ve handled this better than Joe Biden.
Bolton: No, he did not. He did not. We didn’t sanction Nord Stream 2…we should have, we should have brought the project to an end. We did impose sanctions on Russian oligarchs and several others because of their sales of S-400 antiaircraft systems to other countries. But in almost every case, the sanctions were imposed with Trump complaining about it saying we were being too hard. The fact is that he barely knew where Ukraine was. He once asked John Kelly, his second chief of staff, if Finland were a part of Russia. It is just not accurate to say that Trump’s behavior somehow deterred the Russians. I think the evidence is that Russia didn’t feel that their military was ready.
For those of you who prefer CliffsNotes, the takeaways here are that:
(1) Any sanctions that were placed on Russians during Trump‘s time in office were in spite of Trump, who thought they were too mean
(2) Russia didn’t not invade Ukraine while Trump was in office because it was scared of him but because it wasn’t ready—meaning it might very well have done so in Trump’s second term
(3) Trump is a village idiot who couldn‘t find Ukraine on a map. (Which reminds us of the time his secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, was said to have lashed out at a veteran reporter for daring to ask a question about the country amidst the first impeachment trial, suggested that she couldn’t find Ukraine on a map and then had his staff bring one in so she could prove it. Which she did, because she’s smarter than your average 45th president.)
(4) Trump—and here we’re just going to quote Bolton because it bears repeating—once asked “if Finland were a part of Russia.”
But hey, if Trump literally not knowing that Finland is its own country doesn’t drive home the point that he would have let Putin take Ukraine no questions asked, please note that just this past weekend, he was praising Putin’s savvy and calling the U.S. a “stupid country.” And when he was in office? | https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/03/john-bolton-donald-trump-ukraine-finland-russia | 2022-03-02T02:16:38 | en | 0.986509 |
Actress Katharine Hepburn, who won a record four best actress Oscars in her 60-year career, dies at the age of 96. Hepburn starred in such film classics as The Philadelphia Story and The African Queen. She married only once, briefly, but the great love of her life was actor Spencer Tracy, with whom she made nine films and remained close companions until his death in 1967. Hear NPR News.
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Spy novels have taken the art of espionage out of the shadows and into the hands of readers since the end of the 19th century. Eric Ambler, Graham Greene, and John Le Carre elevated the genre to new levels of sophistication. Ian Fleming's James Bond novels -- and the films based on them -- romanticized espionage to the point of fantasy, and secured for the spy a central role in popular culture.
In his new book The Great Game: The Myth and Reality of Espionage, Frederick Hitz compares the exploits of fictional spies, such as Le Carre's George Smiley, to real-life secret agents. Hitz is a former CIA operations officer, and also served as the CIA's inspector general. The book is based on a seminar he teaches at Princeton University.
Hitz and NPR's Liane Hansen recently discussed the mystique of the spy's craft -- fictional and otherwise -- during a visit to Washington's International Spy Museum.
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The U.S. Attorney’s Office will conduct a compliance review of the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo to evaluate accessibility for the disabled, U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery announced Tuesday.
The investigation was launched after complaints the HLSR violated the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA).
The allegations include failing to provide accessible parking, accessible seating, and accessible routes at NRG Park where the three-week event is held.
Rodeo officials said Tuesday they were not aware of specific complaints but said they would work with NRG Park, the event's facility, to make adjustments if they were needed.
"The Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo is a family-friendly event, and we are committed to providing an open and accessible event for everyone," officials said in a statement. "We look forward to working with the U.S. Department of Justice and have expressed our willingness to cooperate."
Under the ADA, private places of public accommodation are not allowed to discriminate against individuals with disabilities.
No other details were given about the investigation or when the compliance review will be done.
Rodeo officials pointed to activities for guests with special needs, including an event known as "Sensory Friendly Day" on March 4.
RodeoHouston includes information about parking for visitors with disabilities on its website.
"A limited number of ADA parking, including van accessible parking, are available in the Blue and Yellow lots for $20 per day. These spaces are sold on a first-come, first-served basis and are subject to availability. Present valid state issued handicap placard or vehicle registration for access," the website says.
It's not clear how many spaces are available.
RodeoHouston kicked off Monday and continues through Sunday, March 20.
Since its beginning in 1932, the HLSR has committed more than $550 million to Texas youth and education, including $27 million to scholarships for Texas students, according to its website. It's one of the largest scholarship providers in the country.
In 2019, the last year RodeoHouston was held in full, it generated a total economic impact of $227 million in Greater Houston, according to its website. Over 2.5 million people attended the Rodeo in 2019. | https://www.12newsnow.com/article/entertainment/events/rodeo-houston-accessibility-disabled-review/285-5e17ea55-7683-46c4-a1ba-258d930443eb | 2022-03-02T02:16:44 | en | 0.973952 |
Screen legend Katharine Hepburn, who starred in more than 50 films and projected the ideals of independence and intelligence to generations of women, dies at 96. Hepburn won a record four best actress Oscars in her 60-year career, for her roles in Morning Glory, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, The Lion in Winter and On Golden Pond. Hear Pat Dowell.
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In modern China, writing generally has not been something done for pleasure. It has been a way to challenge readers to revitalize the country or to try to mold souls politically. Under Chairman Mao, literature was pure propaganda. But now, as China opens up to the west, literature is losing its political role, and critics say, its edge. NPR's Rob Gifford reports.
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WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden has a lot to address in his first State of the Union speech.
Along with domestic topics, Biden is expected to speak on Russia's invasion of Ukraine -- with Ukraine's ambassador to the U.S. on the guest list. That's on top of expected remarks about nursing home changes, health care, infrastructure, the economy, and Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's nomination to the Supreme Court.
With so much to talk about, how will Biden's first SOTU address measure up with those by other presidents? Here's some comparisons from 1964 onwards by The American Presidency Project.
Who gave the longest State of the Union address?
Bill Clinton holds the title for the longest spoken SOTU speech -- his 2000 address took one hour, 28 minutes and 49 seconds.
While George W. Bush and Barack Obama kept their SOTU addresses to about 50 minutes and one hour, respectively, Donald Trump came close to the record. His 2019 SOTU address lasted one hour, 22 minutes and 25 seconds.
In fact, Clinton and Trump hold the longest seven modern SOTU addresses on record. Clinton holds spots 1-2, 5, and 7, while Trump holds 3-4 and 6.
While Biden's April 2021 address to Congress wasn't technically a SOTU, its one hour, five minute runtime puts him closer to Obama's averages than Clinton's.
A different former president holds the record for longest written SOTU address: Jimmy Carter with 33,667 words in 1981.
Who gave the shortest State of the Union address?
In minutes, Richard Nixon's 1972 speech is the shortest SOTU address on record with The American Presidency Project -- 28 minutes, 55 seconds.
As for written versions, George Washington had the shortest annual message to Congress at just 1,089 words. That's a little more than four times the length of this article. | https://www.12newsnow.com/article/news/nation-world/state-of-the-union-longest-shortest-speeches/507-5a3f237b-e1eb-4bb3-9031-4af7e07d24c3 | 2022-03-02T02:16:50 | en | 0.960104 |
Coffee and Cigarettes, from iconoclast director Jim Jarmusch, is the culmination of years of filming vignettes centering on coffee shops. The movie features a variety of performers, from Tom Waits to Iggy Pop and Steven Wright. NPR's Bob Mondello has a review.
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WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden plans to announce Tuesday night that the U.S. is banning Russian aircraft from its airspace in retaliation for the invasion of Ukraine, according to two people familiar with the decision.
The move follows similar action by Canada and the European Union this week. The people spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss Biden’s State of the Union speech in advance.
The Wall Street Journal was first to report the expected move, citing a White House official.
In remarks released by the White House in advance of the speech, Biden offers an ominous warning that without consequences, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s aggression wouldn’t be contained to Ukraine.
“Throughout our history we’ve learned this lesson — when dictators do not pay a price for their aggression, they cause more chaos,” Biden says. “They keep moving. And, the costs and threats to America and the world keep rising.”
The ban would come on top of a wide range of sanctions the U.S., Europe and other nations have imposed on Russia that are expected to hammer that nation's economy.
On Sunday, the European Union and Canada announced they were closing their airspace to Russian airlines and private planes owned by wealthy Russians.
The Canadian ban led Russia's largest airline, Aeroflot, on Monday to say that it had suspended flights to New York, Washington, Miami and Los Angeles through Wednesday.
The U.S. ban raises the possibility that Russia could respond by prohibiting U.S. flights over its territory, which would make for longer and more costly flights, especially for cargo carriers. FedEx and UPS both fly over Russia, although they announced this weekend that they were suspending deliveries to that country.
No U.S. airlines fly to Russia, though a few flights to India pass through Russian airspace. American Airlines routes its lone flight between Delhi and New York to avoid Russian airspace, which adds miles to the trip and means that the flight often requires a refueling stop in Bangor, Maine, on westbound flights.
Russia also has an interest in preserving overflights by U.S. carriers. Aviation experts say Russia derives a sizable amount of money from fees that it levies to use its airspace or land at its airports.
European airlines fly over Russia far more often than their U.S. counterparts. Before the war, about 600 flights to or from Europe passed through Russian airspace, according to aviation data firm Cirium.
A ban on Russian flights could also lead to retaliation against Boeing, a major U.S. exporter and one of the world’s two dominant aircraft manufacturers.
Russia and China are widely assumed to be talking to each other about foreign policy. The rise in tension between the West and Moscow makes it less likely that China will soon reauthorize flights by Boeing’s 737 Max jetliner, said George Ferguson, an aerospace analyst for Bloomberg Intelligence.
China was the biggest market for the Max before it was grounded following two fatal crashes, and neither China nor Russia has yet approved the plane’s return. A delay in their approving the Max will reduce Boeing’s expected aircraft deliveries, an important source of cash for the Chicago-based company, Ferguson said.
Associated Press writers Daria Litvinova in Moscow and Frank Jordans in Berlin contributed to this report. | https://www.12newsnow.com/article/news/nation-world/ukraine/biden-sotu-russia-airspace/507-efb5edbb-239a-436a-9033-1dc42a2a1535 | 2022-03-02T02:16:56 | en | 0.964833 |
Alan Cheuse reviews Symptomatic, by Danzy Senna, a novel about a young California woman of mixed race who falls into a psychic tug of war with a colleague in New York City. It is published by Riverhead Books.
Copyright 2004 NPR
Alan Cheuse reviews Symptomatic, by Danzy Senna, a novel about a young California woman of mixed race who falls into a psychic tug of war with a colleague in New York City. It is published by Riverhead Books.
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Actor Tony Randall died Monday night; he was 84. Randall, best known for his role as Felix Unger on the 1970s sitcom [The Odd Couple, had] developed pneumonia following heart bypass surgery in December. Randall's career spanned decades on both screen and stage, where he often worked with theater director John Tillinger. Hear NPR's Melissa Block and Tillinger.
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Quick, name the executive producer of your favorite TV show. OK, how about any TV show? The fact is most producers labor in relative obscurity. Well, not Don Hewitt, the mastermind behind the newsmagazine 60 Minutes.
For the past 35 years, Hewitt has been as much a presence on 60 Minutes as the signature sweep of the secondhand, and his handprints are all over television as we know it today. He's credited with introducing cue cards and on-screen graphics and with coining the term "news anchor."
And he was the first news executive to turn velvet-fisted journalism into primetime profits. Hewitt steps down from his 60 Minutes helm at the end of this month but not away from journalism. News, he says, has always been in his blood.
"I was one of these kids that while other kids were playing cops and robbers and cowboys and Indians, I was playing reporter. And I don't know why. I just knew from the time I was maybe 4 years old that's what I wanted to be," he says. "And everything just -- I flunked out of college. I went to work at the Herald Tribune as a copyboy in 1942. I ended up on the beaches of Normandy as a war correspondent in World War II. I was working at a picture agency in New York when a friend of mine at CBS called and said, you know, 'CBS is looking for people with picture experience.' And I said, 'What would a radio network want with picture experience?' He said, 'No, no, not radio, television.' And I went and looked, and I couldn't believe -- I was mesmerized by the whole thing. And it's been a sleigh ride ever since."
Michele Norris: You directed the Nixon-Kennedy debate, and over time that was sort of a turning point; that listeners took one thing from that debate, viewers took something altogether different. Was that a turning point for you, also?
Don Hewitt: Yeah. I think that's the worst night in American politics. That's the night that the politicians looked at us and said, "Hey, those guys are the only way to run for office." And we looked at them and said, "Those guys are a bottomless pit of advertising dollars." It took me a lot of years to realize that this whole money game that politics has become in America all began that night.
Most people associate Don Hewitt with 60 Minutes. They know who you are and they know what you do, but they don't really know what you do behind closed doors. What did you do every day? What was your contribution to the show?
My greatest contribution to 60 Minutes was to hire the right people and leave them alone.
Now that sounds so simple; you hire good people and you leave them alone. I think it's a bit more complicated than that. The screaming sessions are legendary.
Yeah. You know, you leave them alone to do it, then when you look at the final product, you weigh in and you say, 'Listen, I think maybe the lead is in the middle, and maybe you ought to drop the ending, and maybe you ought to do this or that.' But that's what editors do everywhere. But I don't mess in their business when they're doing "the story."
What makes a good story?
Clarity. Look, I know what I compete with. I don't think other guys in television are as well -- I do not compete with ABC. I do not compete with NBC. I compete with that little remote sitting next to you on the couch. The minute the guy's mind wanders, he reaches for the remote. That remote is like a gun. People sit there at night and they kill people. "Bang! You're dead. Bang! You're dead." Let me ask you a question, if I may.
Mm-hmm.
Can you name five movies you walked out of in your whole life?
Well, walked out on, no, but headed to the refrigerator, yeah. I could probably name five there, yeah.
Right. No, no, no, in a movie theater. In a movie theater.
Oh, in a movie theater? No, no, can't name five.
No, nobody can name -- you cannot name five movies you walked out of. You walk out of 35 television shows every night. You've made no commitment. And, you know, sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night, and I go through -- I don't know -- 800 channels now and I can't find anything to look at. So I go back to sleep.
What do you watch on television?
Jeopardy!
Jeopardy!
I love it.
Anything else?
Not much. I watch the news, I watch sports. I watch 60 Minutes every Sunday 'cause, you know, I kind of have an association with it.
When you look at 60 Minutes now, how much of it is journalism and how much of it is show business?
That's a loaded question. Look, there is -- "entertainment" is not a dirty word. And to make information entertaining is not necessarily -- even Ed Murrow knew that. Ed Murrow looked like Walter Pidgeon playing Ed Murrow. He was a matinee idol. And for anybody to tell you that he wasn't, they're kidding you. I don't see any reason why you can't make information palatable. And if you want to call it showbiz to make it palatable, that's -- I don't use the term, but I have no objection to you using it.
Don Hewitt, thanks for talking to us.
Thank you.
Don Hewitt, the creator and executive producer of "60 Minutes." Hewitt, who has always said that he would rather die at his desk than go quietly into retirement, is developing new programs for CBS.
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