The Unquiet Life of Margaret Walker Portrait and Press
Roger Martin surveys the multi decade creative arc of Margaret Walker, detailing her early breakthroughs in Poetry and Yale prizes, the silences forced by poverty and race, her journals as therapy, and Maryemma Graham’s ongoing work to publish and illuminate Walker’s life while balancing privacy and truth through biographical effort and scholarly collaboration.
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Margaret Walker
South
Northwestern University
Poetry
Yale
Richard Wright
Wright
Maryemma Graham
University of Kansas
Walker
Graham
University Press of Mississippi
Roger Martin
Kansas Public Radio
Ann Landers to end long-running advice column
The June 22 death of Esther Lederer marks the end of near 50 years of Ann Landers daily advice read by about 90 million readers. Her farewell column will run July 27, replaced by Ann's Mailbox and a column from her daughter Margo Howard.
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Ann Landers
Landers
Esther Lederer
Ottawa
Lederer
First United Methodist Church
Ethelyn Bennett
Bennett
Abby
Abigail van Buren
Pauline Phillips
The
Times
Laura
Ann
Margo Howard
Prudence
IRS random audits argued as fair tool rather than punishment
Chanute Tribune defends the IRS move to resume random audits, arguing audits deter tax cheats and ensure fair payment. It notes the agency audited 730,000 returns last year and plans to survey about 50,000 this year, while Congress and critics attack the method.
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Chanute Tribune
Internal Revenue Service
IRS
Congress
In defense of Brownback letter defends senator against stem cell critique
The author argues against a claim that Sen. Brownback and Sen. Landrieu promote fetal stem cell research to cure Parkinson’s disease. He labels the accusation as demagogy, noting no determinate probability that such research will cure diseases. He challenges ethical and legal concerns as long as doubts remain.
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Sam Brownback
U.S
The
Herald
Kansas U.S
Sen
Mary Landrieu
Sen. Brownback
Moral alarm over prenatal stem cell research and cloning
The author denounces prenatal stem cell work as terminat ing fertilized ova and questions fetal tissue trade and therapeutic cloning. Biology is praised yet warned against hubris and Nazi-era experiments, likening unchecked science to voodoo. Sam Brownback is praised for aiming to guide policy in defense of ethical limits.
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Tower of Babel
Nazi Germany
United States
United Kingdom
Sam Brownback
Senate
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Fox
Franklin County
Cedar
Stacy Cohen
Scohen
Bill Gray
B Gray
Kathy Miller
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Ofice
Millerf
Kon Kistner
Kkistner
Ottawaherald.com
Tim Millbem
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