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...FORT BRAGG: PW gives a starred, boxed review, its highest accolade, to "Ava's Man" by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Rick Bragg. "Following up his bestselling memoir, 'All Over But the Shoutin', Bragg again creates a soulful, poignant portrait of working-class Southern life by looking deep into his own family history. This new volume recounts the life of his maternal grandfather, Charlie Bundrum, who died in 1958, one year before Rick was born...His investigations in the Appalachian foothills along the Georgia-Alabama border turn up a beloved, larger-than-life rambler who inspired backwoods legend among contemporaries, undying...
...Mladic so far, have recommitted themselves to the task. Rumors that a snatch may take place soon swirl around the region. DON'T TOUCH HIM! warn posters of Karadzic pasted up recently by a Serb cultural group in nearby northern Montenegro. Zoran Zuza, a well-informed Bosnian-Serb journalist and political analyst in the former wartime stronghold of Pale, says Karadzic "realizes that he has never been in such dire straits...
...from trading in London's financial district for his 1998 manipulation of the Swedish stock exchange while working at Credit Suisse First Boston; in London. His disgraced father, author Jeffrey Archer, was jailed last week for perjury in a libel case. DIED. INDRO MONTANELLI, 92, veteran right-wing Italian journalist and former Fascist renowned for his controversial views; in Milan. In 1943 he was jailed by the Fascists and narrowly escaped execution for criticizing the regime in his coverage of the Spanish Civil War. DIED. MILTON GABLER, 90, music producer who founded Commodore Records, the first U.S. independent jazz label...
...Granted, thus far, journalism on the web has not been stellar. Form follows function, and eventually, Internet journalism will shape itself to the nature of the Internet. Someday, every online journalist will use the syntax of html and flash right alongside her colorful lede...
...wasn't, of course. A new book by rock journalist Michael Azerrad, "Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981 - 1991" (Little, Brown) catalogs the labors of 13 `80s bands with whom Nirvana and countless other `90s acts shared an aesthetic (distorted guitar with a minimum of studio effects, flannel), and without whom "alternative" would never have become a household word. It narrates, down to the homemade posters and tour van repairs, how they gradually built up an audience large enough to make record labels and critics take notice, so that Nevermind and other...