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Book Prizes Awarded With Nod to History
On the night of her 50th birthday, Annette Gordon-Reed won the National Book Award for nonfiction for “The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family.
Source: New York Times
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Thursday, 08 January 2009
Coal ash sludge ponds in use at some Illinois power plants
By Michael Hawthorne | Tribune reporter More than a dozen Illinois power plants store toxic coal ash in sludge ponds similar to the one that burst and spread contaminated muck over...
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Thursday, 08 January 2009
MSNBCs Chris Matthews wont run for Senate
By Paul J. Gough NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - After months of will-he or wont-he speculation, MSNBC Hardball host Chris Matthews has opted not to run for the US Senate in his...
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Thursday, 08 January 2009
Clinton Is Moving to Fill Senior Posts at State Dept.
By MARK LANDLER WASHINGTON - As she awaits Senate confirmation as secretary of state, Hillary Rodham Clinton is filling out the senior echelon of the State Department, and...
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Thursday, 08 January 2009
Paterson voices resolve
He saved the best for last.Gov. David A. Paterson’s first State of the State address hit on many of the usual themes for such speeches, but it was in his call to shared sacrifice that...
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