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washingtonpost.com » washingtonpost.com - Op-Ed Columns - Jul 5, 2008
At Harvard, the star of Arabic A is a girl named Maha. Maha Muhammed Abulaal, to be precise. She's the pouty protagonist in the melodrama that runs throughout "Al-Kitaab," the standard beginning text in Arabic classes …
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washingtonpost.com » washingtonpost.com - Style - May 24, 2008
Give novelist and sometime art critic John Updike credit. The 2008 National Endowment for the Humanities Jefferson Lecturer tried to answer the thorny question: "What is American about American art?"
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washingtonpost.com » washingtonpost.com - Maryland - May 19, 2008
The elation of winning one of the nation's largest literary prizes for undergraduate students perhaps can be summed up best by the winner, Emma Sovich, 22, who described the moment in a breathless post-award interview.
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washingtonpost.com » washingtonpost.com - Bush Administration - Feb 5, 2008
The Smithsonian Institution, the largest of the cultural accounts in the federal budget, received a proposed overall increase of $33.8 million in the 2009 budget request the White House sent to Capitol Hill yesterday.
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washingtonpost.com » washingtonpost.com - Op-Ed Columns - Nov 28, 2007
It's a cultural cliche: Americans don't care about the past. De Tocqueville noticed it in the 1830s, speculating that in 50 years Americans would know less about the America he visited than the French knew about the …
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washingtonpost.com » washingtonpost.com - Style - Nov 15, 2007
Les Paul, the guitar innovator; Henry Ziegler Steinway, whose family handcrafted thousands of pianos; and Andrew Wyeth, the master painter of American scenes, will receive the National Medal of Arts today.
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washingtonpost.com » washingtonpost.com - Bookstores, book reviews and events in Washington, DC, Virginia and Maryland - washingtonpost.com - Oct 13, 2007
BLUE SKIES, NO FENCES A Memoir of Childhood and Family
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