Pulitzer Prize

Afghan Photographer Hopes His Image Will Stop Suicide Bombers

Nicole Glass | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Photography, Kabul, Afghanistan, Massoud Hossaini, Suicide Bombers, Pulitzer Prize, World News

Massoud Hossaini was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for a photo he took of Tarana Akbari, a 12-year old girl who found herself surrounded by dead bodies after a suicide bombing at a shrine in Kabul.

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Sobriety Rules At New York Gala Honoring Clive Davis

Liz Smith | Posted 05.18.2012

Read More: Marlo Thomas, New York Times, David Foster Wallace, Caron New York Gala, Clive Davis, Pulitzer Prize, Phil Donahue, Celebrity News

Clive, accepting the Richard J. Caron Award for Excellence, appeared to be deeply moved when he said, "I wish with all my heart Whitney had availed herself of the facilities at Caron." His remarks were brief and powerful.

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Horst Faas, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Photojournalist, Has Died

AP | Posted 05.12.2012

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NEW YORK (AP) — In an obituary May 10 for former Associated Press photographer Horst Faas, the AP incorrectly reported that Faas photographed a ski-...

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Did the Pulitzer Prize Miss the Season of Change in the Middle East?

Muqtedar Khan | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Afghanistan, Journalism, Massoud Hossaini, Pulitzer Photography, Massoud Hossaini Pulitzer, Pulitzer Prize, Arts News

I believe that the Pulitzer Prize this year missed a season of change. Awards like the Oscars, Nobels and Pulitzers determine how we frame history. Hossaini's picture has now become another episode in the never-ending Western fascination with the horrors of the Muslim world.

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The 7 Cleverest Science Experiments In History

Michael Brooks | Posted 05.02.2012

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Sometimes doing something stupid or undignified is the only way to make the discovery or breakthrough you have been reaching towards. Sure, you might break a taboo or two, and you'll almost certainly break the rules, but since when did playing safe win anyone a Nobel Prize?

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Prizes, Central Banking and Some Thoughts on Equilibrium

Robert Teitelman | Posted 04.30.2012

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The pretense is that through some deliberative and democratic magic, the prize is bestowed correctly. In short, there's equilibrium out there at every moment that the market is reaching for. Unfortunately, for both markets and prizes, humanity makes the call.

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Theater: 'Clybourne Park' Moves to Broadway; Property Values Rise

Michael Giltz | Posted 04.20.2012

Read More: Broadway, Theater, Bruce Norris, Comedy, Drama, Pulitzer Prize, Video, Clybourne-Park-Play, Clybourne Park, Clybourne-Park-Reviews, Entertainment News

The Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Clybourne Park has just moved to Broadway and its new neighbors are not happy about it. Can you blame them?

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And the Winner Is -- Nobody

Joel Conarroe | Posted 04.20.2012

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The winners of other fiction awards, all chosen by qualified panels, will be in a charmed circle among this year's best. The pity is that none of the three fine books nominated by this year's hard-working Pulitzer panel will be found in that circle.

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The Pulitzer Judges Were Dead Wrong

Warren Adler | Posted 04.20.2012

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Not one book was worthy? Does it follow that, in the opinion of the judges, the reading public last year was short-changed on the quality of what was on offer?

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WATCH: Arianna Talks Pulitzer With Stephen Colbert

Posted 04.19.2012

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Arianna Huffington stopped by "The Colbert Report" last night to chat with Stephen about HuffPost's first ever Pulitzer Prize, awarded for David Wood'...

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Arianna Discusses Pulitzer Prizes, Afghanistan On 'Viewpoint'

Posted 04.19.2012

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Seven years after its launch, The Huffington Post has won the highest honor in journalism. Arianna Huffington discussed this achievement, the war in A...

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The Surprise Pulitzer Winner Speaks

HuffingtonPost.com | Mallika Rao | Posted 04.18.2012

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On Monday afternoon, Ray Beauchamp looked at the front page of The New York Times website and started to scream. In the Bronx offices of Legal Service...

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The Post Bashes The AP's Pulitzer As 'Non-Stop Hit-Job' On NYPD

Posted 04.17.2012

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The New York Post came out lashing The Associated Press for their Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the NYPD's controversial Muslim surveillance prog...

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WATCH: Arianna On HuffPost's First Pulitzer

Huff TV | Posted 04.17.2012

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Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Arianna appeared on Tuesday's Morning Joe to comment on The Huffington Po...

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VOTE: The Hufflitzer - A Prize With A Winner!

Posted 04.20.2012

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UPDATE: We have a winner! With more than 40% of the vote, Karen Russell's Swamplandia! is the inaugural (and hopefully only) Hufflitzer prize winner. ...

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Quiara Alegria Hudes Wins Pulitzer Prize For Drama

AP | MARK KENNEDY | Posted 04.16.2012

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NEW YORK — Quiara Alegria Hudes's play "Water by the Spoonful," about an Iraq war veteran struggling to find his place in the world, has won the...

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Why Did The Pulitzer Snub "Swamplandia!" Author?

The Huffington Post | Amanda McCorquodale | Posted 04.17.2012

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Coral Gables native Karen Russell and her book about South Florida, "Swamplandia!," were snubbed for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction this year. In fact...

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Opera Wins 2012 Pulitzer Prize For Music

The Huffington Post | Amy Lee | Posted 04.16.2012

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Kevin Puts' opera, "Silent Night" has won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Music. Commissioned by the Minnesota Opera with co-producer Opera Company of...

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HuffPost Wins 1st Pulitzer Prize

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael Calderone | Posted 04.17.2012

NEW YORK -- Huffington Post senior military correspondent David Wood has spent decades covering war, watching as wounded combat troops are loaded onto...

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No Winner For Pulitzer Prize For Fiction

Posted 04.17.2012

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This year, nobody was good enough. The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction is one of the most prestigious awards in American literature. Previous fiction w...

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Pulitzer Prize Winners Announced

Posted 04.16.2012

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Ike and Tail Gunner Joe

Tom Alderman | Posted 04.13.2012

Several people report they cannot forgive Eisenhower's moral and political failure to speak out and repudiate McCarthy. That is not how it went down with Ike, according to Jim Newton's excellent new biography, Eisenhower: The White House Years.

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One and Done (for Now) After Reading Certain Novelists

Dave Astor | Posted 05.28.2012

Read More: Ernest Hemingway, Congress, George W. Bush, The Magnificent Ambersons, Cars, The Rich, Pulitzer Prize, Louisa May Alcott, Midwest, Robert Penn Warren, Novels, Racism, Muriel Spark, Economic Inequality, Booth Tarkington, Indiana, Books News

Of course, not reading more of an author is a no-brainer when you thoroughly dislike the first novel you try by him or her. But things get trickier when you have some positive feelings about a book, as I did with The Magnificent Ambersons.

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Pioneering Los Angeles Times Writer Dies

AP | Posted 03.21.2012

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LOS ANGELES -- Dorothy Townsend, the first female staff writer for the Los Angeles Times' city section and the lone woman on a team of dozens of repor...

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Middle School Social Studies Teacher Sees Lessons In Teaching Own Play

AP | By DORIE TURNER | Posted 02.01.2012

Read More: Atlanta Elementary Schools, Social Studies, Pulitzer Prize, Middle School Social Studies, Wit, Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Atlanta Schools, Atlanta, Teachers, Broadway Plays, Margaret Edson Playwright, Margaret Edson, Playwright, Education News

ATLANTA -- Playwright Margaret Edson talks proudly about her Pulitzer Prize and her work appearing on Broadway, but she's the most animated when she d...

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