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CBS News anchor and debate moderator BOB SCHIEFFER, being correct. (via inothernews) |
ICONIC /// [Image 1] @DVF {Diane Von Furstenberg} on the March 22, 1976 @Newsweek cover [Image 2] Diane lounges in her home below her portrait done by Andy Warhol ;* (1976)
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#Newsweek had it right five years ago…. The #Romney disaster is just the chickens coming home to roost. The Bush admin destroyed the #GOP (Taken with Instagram)
The latest issue of TIME, on newsstands Friday, focuses on “The Fact Wars” between Mitt Romney and Barack Obama. As both candidates prepare to face off in the first presidential debate, the question remains, “Who is really telling the truth?”
Read the cover story here.
npr:
Join us starting at 8:30 p.m. ET for a live chat during the first presidential debate. NPR political blogger Frank James will be joined by Shirish Date of NPR’s Washington Desk and NPR business editor Marilyn Geewax. Submit your comments in advance by clicking on “Comment Now” above.
Congratulations to the New Yorker contributors Junot Díaz and Dinaw Mengestu on being awarded MacArthur “genius” grants this week. Díaz has published thirteen stories in the magazine, and Mengestu was included in 20 Under 40, The New Yorker’s 2010 selection of young fiction writers. Here are links to stories we’ve run by these two distinguished writers, along with Q. & A.s they’ve done with their editors about their work.
Junot Díaz:
“How to Date a Brown Girl (Black Girl, White Girl, or Halfie)”
“The Sun, the Moon, the Stars”
“The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao”
Q. & A. about “The Pura Principle”
“The Cheater’s Guide to Love” Q .& A. about “The Cheater’s Guide to Love”
Dinaw Mengetsu:
Photographs courtesy of the John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
