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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2009
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NEWS ABOUT: NEA

NEA stories: 4 news summaries

(Newser) - The NEA's spokesman has resigned, and the Huffington Post chalks it up as another victory for Glenn Beck. The NEA official, Yosi Sergant, raised the Fox host's ire by participating in an August conference call in which the group sought artists to participate in a national program called United We... More »

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resignation • Fox • Glenn Beck • Obama administration • NEA • Yosi Sargent • United We Serve

Broadway Producer to Head NEA

Rocco Landesman
likely to shake up sleepy arts endowment

May 13, 09 6:45 AM CDT
(Newser) - The White House has nominated Rocco Landesman, a Broadway producer behind hits such as Angels in America and The Producers, as the new chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, reports the New York Times. His appointment came as a surprise to many in the art world and may... More »

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Broadway producers • NEA • Jay-ZTV

(Newser) - Though the National Endowment for the Arts is encouraging communities to get together and devour the same book, literature director David Kipen has gone a bit further with tiny Kelleys Island, Ohio, the Sandusky Register reports. If the island’s 128 inhabitants don’t all read To Kill a Mockingbird,... More »

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Ohio • island • Harper Lee • To Kill A Mockingbird • National Endowment for the Arts • NEA • David Kipen • Sandusky • The Big Read

OPINION

'Venal' Phil Gramm No Big Loss to McCain Camp

'Nation of whiners' quote simply the latest in a long string of bad moves

Jul 15, 08 8:15 PM CDT
(Newser) - "Nation of whiners” adviser Phil Gramm was simply an "accident waiting to happen" for the McCain campaign, writes Max Blumenthal in Huffington Post. Blumenthal runs down the “reactionary, venal and destructive” senator’s foibles—which run from enabling Enron to investing in porn. Gramm “left a... More »

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John McCain • gay rights • pornography • white supremacism • Enron • subprime crisis • Phil Gramm • Whinergate • NEA

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