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Lincoln Schatz: Samantha Power, Cube Portrait, Esquire's Portrait of the 21st...
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Samantha Power, award-winning journalist, anti-genocide advocate and Harvard University professor, recently participated in Esquire magazine’s "Portrait of the 21st Century." The project, a creation of sculptor and new-media artist Lincoln Schatz is "an evolving video portrait of the most influential people of the coming decades."
For her Cube portrait, Power and John Prendergast, founder of the Enough Project (enoughproject.org), gathered five genocide survivors: Perouz Kalousdian, a 99-year-old survivor of the Armenian genocide; Bernard Gotfryd, a Holocaust survivor; Sophy Yem, who survived Pol Pot’s “killing fields”; Jacqueline Murekatete, who narrowly survived the Rwandan genocide; and Motasim Adam, who escaped the ongoing genocide in Darfur. The green bracelets, which say, “Not on Our Watch,” represent the growing strength worldwide of the movement to eliminate genocide.
One of the world’s foremost advocates for victims of genocide, Samantha Power began her career in a war zone as a twenty-two-year-old journalist covering the conflict in the former Yugoslavia. Convinced she needed to do more than report the injustices she witnessed, she earned a law degree at Harvard, where she founded the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy in 1998.
She continued to write. In 2003 she earned a Pulitzer Prize for her book “A Problem from Hell”: America and the Age of Genocide. A study of modern genocides against Armenians, Jews, Cambodians, Iraqi Kurds, Bosnians, and Rwandans, the book examines the tragic consequences of the U.S. government’s repeated reluctance to prevent, suppress, or punish mass atrocity. Her most recent book, Chasing the Flame: One Man’s Fight to Save the World, is a biography of Sérgio Vieira de Mello, the UN trouble-shooter and peacemaker who was killed by a suicide bomber in Iraq.
Power worked as an advisor to Senator Barack Obama in 2005 and 2006, and then again for his 2008 campaign, advising the Democratic candidate on foreign policy. She is the Anna Lindh Professor of Practice of Global Leadership and Public Policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and a columnist at Time magazine. CLICK LINK TO SEE THE VIDEO!! ... more -
Bob Dylan wins a Pulitzer
Bob Dylan won a special music citation Pulitzer Prize. This specific Pulitzer was first awarded in 1943. Previous musical citation winners include George Gershwin and Duke Ellington.
Junot Diaz took home the fiction prize for "The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao." Tracy Letts' "August: Osage County" received the prize in the drama category.
For those of you who have never heard of Diaz and Letts, find out more here <a href=" http://www.junotdiaz.com">here</a> and <a href=" http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0504832/">here</a.... Bob Dylan won a special music citation Pulitzer Prize. This specific Pulitzer was first awarded in 1943. Previous musical citation w... more -
Dylan Wins Pulitzer Prize: A Solitary and Beautiful Mind
Bob Dylan was named a Pulitzer Prize Winner on Monday, April 7, 2008. A Special Citation was awarded to Dylan for his profound impact on popular music and American culture, marked by lyrical compositions of extraordinary poetic power. He's always been a major figure in our contemporary American heritage, at the same time both elusive and achingly complete. Dylan has spent his life as a solitary figure, an extraordinarily beautiful mind and yet so alone.
This article includes a two videos, a musical tribute and the "I'm Not There" trailer (Heath Ledger version). In addition, there is a wonderful photo-gallery. Bob Dylan was named a Pulitzer Prize Winner on Monday, April 7, 2008. A Special Citation was awarded to Dylan for his profound impact... more -
Washington Post wins 6 Pulitzers
The Washington Post won six Pulitzer Prizes on Monday, including the public service medal for exposing shoddy treatment of America's war wounded at Walter Reed hospital, and the breaking-news award for coverage of the Virginia Tech massacre.
The New York Times received two Pulitzers: one for investigative reporting, for stories on toxic ingredients in medicine and other products imported from China, and one for explanatory reporting, for examining the ethical issues surrounding DNA testing. The Washington Post won six Pulitzer Prizes on Monday, including the public service medal for exposing shoddy treatment of America... more -
Spuds MacKenzie Lives!
So I was walking out of Lucky 13 (spiffy SF rocker bar) the other night and I saw this. You can't tell from this picture but his eyes were fixated on the Budweiser neon sign. It was him. I'm sure of it.
Far and away the best photo ever taken of a dog at a bar in SF on a Wednesday. So I was walking out of Lucky 13 (spiffy SF rocker bar) the other night and I saw this. You can't tell from this picture but his... more -
How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense (And Stick Yo...
Social and financial inequality at your cost.
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Cay Johnston joins us to talk about his new book, 'Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense (And Stick You with the Bill).' Johnston reveals how government subsidies and new regulations have quietly funneled money from the poor and the middle class to the rich and politically connected. [includes rush transcript] Social and financial inequality at your cost. ... more -
2007 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography
This was awarded a while back now, but I recently came across it again and thought I should post it on current. There's nothing more to say on it. The pictures speak for themselves. This was awarded a while back now, but I recently came across it again and thought I should post it on current. There's nothing m... more
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Pulitzer Prize winning Associated Press photographer detained by US military
The photographer, Bilal Hussein Zaidon, faces charges in the Iraqi Central Court based on claims by the US military that he is linked to the insurgency in Iraq, Pentagon officials announced Monday.
Hussein, an Iraqi who lives in the western Anbar province city of Ramadi, has been held without charge by the U.S. military since April 2006
The evidence is based on insurgent propaganda and bomb materials supposedly found in his house.
Associated Press chief executive officer and president Tom Curley said the agency has "grave concerns" that Hussein's rights are being "ignored and even abused" and called on the United States to release the photographer.
"The steps the U.S. military is now taking continue to deny Bilal his right to due process and, in turn, may deny him a chance at a fair trial," Curley said.
One of Hussein's photographs was among a series of 20 AP photographs that won the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news photography in 2005. The photographer, Bilal Hussein Zaidon, faces charges in the Iraqi Central Court based on claims by the US military that he is linked ... more -
Pulitzer Prize winner, Norman Mailer, has died.
Norman Mailer wrote dozens of plays, stories, and poems. He was awarded the Pulitzer prize for The Armies of the Night in 1968, and The Executioner's Song in 1979.
Mailer is also a co-founder of The Village Voice. Norman Mailer wrote dozens of plays, stories, and poems. He was awarded the Pulitzer prize for The Armies of the Night in 1968, and Th... more
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