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...Fans vs. Miss Manners The Fan Man parachutes onto the ropes during the Bowe-Holyfield brawl. University of Wisconsin partisans run amuck after their football team beats Michigan. New Orleans quarterback Wade Wilson collapses in pain with a knee injury, and the hometown boors cheer. Now behave, people, or we'll send Vince Coleman after...
...first African-American actor to take the role of Othello in over a century, Paul Robeson won a twenty-minute standing ovation and made his 1943 Broadway show “the most important Shakespearean production of the century,” according to Frank Wilson, the curator of this exhibit, which features photographs and documents surrounding Robeson’s Othello. Pusey Library. Free. (LEB)Silver and Shawls. Through Jan. 29. This exhibit highlights shawls and silver tableware produced in India during the late colonial period, focusing on the evolution of the former towards European styles and the latter...
Even as famed scholars have left, new ones are on the way, there is reason enough to be optimistic about the future of a department that still retains luminaries like Gates, Jamaica Kincaid, and Guyser University Professor William Julius Wilson. In addition to the new faculty appointments, the increased focus on African Studies and the opening of a unified Du Bois Institute reflect a department that is primed for the future...
...weeks later, on July 6, Wilson went public, writing an Op-Ed column in the New York Times, retelling the story of his fruitless trip to Niger and hinting that the Bush team didn't really want to know if the prewar intelligence was accurate or not. It was a serious charge and, to the Bush team, an open declaration of war. The next day, Libby told then White House press secretary Ari Fleischer that Wilson's wife worked at the CIA and added that that was a fact not widely known--dropping, perhaps, an invitation to Fleischer to leak...
...case, and the hard-charging prosecutor began interviewing witnesses within weeks. That, according to Fitzgerald, is when Libby began to spin his web. In his interviews with the FBI and later in his testimony to the grand jury, Libby swore that he had first heard about Wilson's wife not from other senior officials in June 2003 but instead on July 10 or 11, 2003, from NBC News Washington bureau chief Tim Russert. Libby also told the feds that Russert volunteered in the same call that "all the reporters" knew about Plame's work. Similarly, Libby's account...