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  • April 2008

    • Walter Reed Exposé Helps Post Net 6 Pulitzers

      Washington Post  |  Apr 7, 08 4:39 PM CDT

      Walter Reed Exposé Helps Post Net 6 Pulitzers

      (Newser) - The Washington Post today won the prestigious Pulitzer Prize for public service for its coverage of the Walter Reed scandal and grabbed five more of the coveted awards in the biggest haul in the paper's history. A series on the power of Dick Cheney earned the national reporting medal, and the breaking news award went to the team that covered the Virginia Tech massacre. More »

  • March 2008

    • 'Killing Fields' Photog Dith Dead at 65

      New York Times  |  Mar 30, 08 12:39 PM CDT

      'Killing Fields' Photog Dith Dead at 65

      (Newser) - Photojournalist Dith Pran, whose saga was re-created in the film The Killing Fields, has died of pancreatic cancer at 65, the New York Times reports. The Cambodian native became the Khmer Rouge's most vocal opponent after escaping in 1979, having worked in labor camps and survived on a spoonful of rice a day. He moved to New York, where he began working for the Times and against the Cambodian genocide. "I'm a one-person crusade," he once said. More »

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      obituary  • New York Times  • Thailand  • genocide  • Cambodia  • Khmer Rouge  • Pulitzer Prize  • labor camp  • photojournalist

  • October 2007

    • Norman Mailer Back in Hospital

      New York Post  |  Oct 17, 07 12:43 PM CDT

      Norman Mailer Back in Hospital

      (Newser) - Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Norman Mailer was hospitalized yesterday in New York for respiratory ailments; his ex-wife said surgery had succeeded in removing scar tissue after a lung collapse—but she worried that he’s “not in very good shape.” It's the second recent scare for the 84-year-old literary lion, hospitalized for asthma over Labor Day, the New York Post reports. More »

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      literature  • asthma  • Norman Mailer  • Pulitzer Prize

  • August 2007

    • Surrealist Simic Named Poet Laureate

      New York Times  |  Aug 2, 07 12:15 PM CDT

      Surrealist Simic Named Poet Laureate

      (Newser) - Charles Simic, a surrealist poet whose style gleams with dark imagery and ironic humor, will be named the United States' 15th poet laureate today. The 69-year-old, who replaces fellow New Hampshirite Donald Hall, has published more than 20 volumes of poetry as well as essay collections, translations and a memoir. More »

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      literature  • America  • humor  • poetry  • Library of Congress  • Yugoslavia  • Pulitzer Prize  • poet laureate  • creative writing  • irony

  • June 2007

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