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Sam Zell's wife donates $50 million to Michigan creative writing
In my book, donating money to support creative writing programs is generally a good thing. But I'm -- hmm, let's call it conflicted -- over a $50-million donation to the University of Michigan's MFA program in creative writing from Helen Zell, wife of Sam...
Tags: The Wall Street Journal, Northwestern University, Teach for America, Television Industry, Financially Distressed Companies
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PASSINGS: Magic Slim, Cleotha Staples, Lou Myers, Donald Rutledge
Magic Slim Singer of Chicago blues Magic Slim, 75, whose ragged voice and punchy guitar riffs made him a symbol of Chicago blues, died Thursday in Philadelphia after surgery for a bleeding ulcer, according to his family. A younger contemporary of...
Tags: The Staple Singers (music group), Stroke, Bill Cosby, Muddy Waters, Entertainment
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Van Cliburn dies at 78; pianist who gave U.S. a Cold War victory
After a tense decade of air raid sirens, duck-and-cover drills and fears of Soviet superiority, hope for America came in an unlikely form in the late 1950s: a lanky, 23-year-old Texan with a head full of curls and huge hands that ranged across a piano...
Tags: Moscow (Russia), John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, The Boston Globe, Entertainment, Mikhail S Gorbachev
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Liguori takes reins at Tribune! Meredith Vieira talking daytime.
After the coffee. Before seeing the ratings for the Lance Armstrong interview. The Skinny: I'm Lance Armstrong'd out! I watched that interview online and on TV. He sure is cold. Friday's stories include a preview of the weekend box office, an...
Tags: Mark Wahlberg, Television, Rush Limbaugh, Satellite and Cable Service, Peter Liguori
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Judge further restricts release of information from Sept. 11 trial
WASHINGTON — The military judge in charge of the trial for alleged Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and four others has ruled that lawyers cannot share even unclassified materials or discuss the information with the press or public, and he...
Tags: Trials, Lawyers, Justice System, Court Preliminary, Justice and Rights
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Obama strategist David Axelrod joins MSNBC, NBC News as analyst
David Axelrod, former White House advisor and senior strategist for President Obama’s 2008 and 2012 election campaigns, is joining MSNBC and NBC News as a senior political analyst, the networks announced today. It marks a return to the world of...
Tags: Television, Scott P. Brown, MSNBC (tv network), James Carville, Television Industry
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2 charged in Hadiya Pendleton's murder to appear in Chicago court
The two men accused of shooting Hadiya Pendleton will appear in a Chicago courtroom on the first-degree murder charges Tuesday, hours before her parents are to sit with First Lady Michelle Obama for the president’s State of the Union speech....
Tags: Gun Control, Chicago Mayor, Interior Policy, Personal Weapon Control, Prosecution
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Two held without bail in Hadiya Pendleton shooting
Two men charged with killing a Chicago teenager who has become the face of that city’s growing problem with gun violence were ordered held without bail on Tuesday. The pair, Michael Ward, 18, and Kenneth Williams, 28, are charged with first-degree...
Tags: Punishment, State of the Union Address, Lobbying, Shootings, Prosecution
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Hadiya Pendleton funeral: 'This should hurt the hearts of every man'
Friends, family and First Lady Michelle Obama gathered Saturday afternoon to remember Hadiya Pendleton, the 15-year-old Chicago majorette who was fatally shot a week after she performed at President Obama’s inauguration. Hadiya -- who was shot...
Tags: Gun Control, Chicago Mayor, Jesse Jackson, Shootings, Interior Policy
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Jimmy O'Neill dies at 73; L.A. deejay hosted TV's 'Shindig!'
Jimmy O'Neill, an Oklahoman barely out of his teens when he became Los Angeles' top-rated radio deejay and only 24 when he catapulted to national celebrity as the host of "Shindig!," one of the earliest rock 'n' roll shows on prime-time television, died...
Tags: Disc Jockeys, Teri Garr, Television, Concerts, Jerry Lee Lewis
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Gerda Lerner dies at 92; pioneered field of women's history
Gerda Lerner spent her 18th birthday in a Nazi prison in Vienna and feared that birthday would be her last. Her jailers meant to starve her, but her cellmates — two gentile women imprisoned for their anti-fascist views — shared their rations...
Tags: Prisons, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Lobbying, University of Oxford, Stanford University
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Tribune taps former FCC official Edward Lazarus as general counsel
Tribune Co. has named Edward Lazarus, a former high-ranking Federal Communications Commission official and one-time federal prosecutor in Los Angeles, as its executive vice president and general counsel. Lazarus, 53, is the first key hire for Tribune'...
Tags: Business, Peter Liguori, Television Industry, Prosecution, Newspaper and Magazine
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