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  • Who was Sen. Richard Russell, the man whose name is on a Senate office building?

    08/27/2018 6:19:01 AM PDT · by rightwingintelligentsia · 45 replies
    Cox Media via WPXI ^ | August 27, 2018 | Debbie Lord
    Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said this weekend that he will introduce a resolution to rename the Senate's Russell Office Building for Sen. John McCain, who died on Saturday at his home in Arizona. McCain died 13 months after he was diagnosed with glioblastoma, a form of brain cancer. Schumer, D-New York, praised his colleague as an American patriot and said he would introduce the resolution “so that generations remember him." "As you go through life, you meet few truly great people," Schumer said in a statement. "John McCain was one of them. His dedication to his country and the...
  • Studs Terkel Turns 95 on Wednesday

    05/16/2007 8:02:10 AM PDT · by Borges · 6 replies · 194+ views
    Yahoo - AP ^ | 05/16/07 | Don Babwin
    Famed Oral Historian Studs Terkel Turns 95 on Wednesday When he talks about outlasting pretty much everybody, Studs Terkel likes to turn a phrase about death on its ear. "Curiosity did not kill this cat," he said Tuesday. On Wednesday, the Chicago icon who turned his own curiosity about the famous and infamous -- but mostly the anonymous -- into a career unlike any other in the history of journalism turns 95. The longtime publisher of Terkel's books, The New Press, will mark the day with a party in Chicago, and is inviting book stores around the country to host...